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 | 50k | Platform plan of Thresher (SSN-593) class submarines. | PDF courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 179k | Submarine Silhouettes of 1960: Nautilus (SSN-571), Seawolf (SSN-575), Skate (SSN-578), Skipjack (SS-585), Triton (SSRN-586), Halibut (SSGN-587), Thresher (SSN-593), Tullibee (SSN-597), George Washington (SSBN-598), & Ethan Allen (SSBN-608) classes. | U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Ron Titus, courtesy of Ingersoll-Rand. Corp. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 187k | Nuclear Submarine Profiles 1960: Nautilus (SSN-571), Seawolf (SSN-575), Triton (SSRN-586), Skate (SSN-578) & Skipjack (SS-585) classes, Halibut (SSGN-587) & Tullibee (SSN-597) classes, George Washington (SSBN-598) & Thresher (SSN-593) classes. | US Navy photo courtesy of Ron Titus courtesy of Ingersoll-Rand. Corp. Photo i.d. courtesy of Dave Johnston. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 175k | The Guardfish's (SSN-612) sponsor, Mrs. Kenneth E. Belieu, wife of Assistant Secretary of Navy christens the boat on 15 May 1965. | Text courtesy of DANFS. US Navy photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. |
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 | 226k | The Guardfish (SSN-612) stands on the beginning of the launching ways on 15 May 1965. | US Navy photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 211k | Guardfish (SSN-612) launching ceremony at New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, New Jersey on 15 May 1965. The Pogy (SSN-647) is under construction to her left and would be launched on 3 June 1967. | US Navy photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 81k | The Guardfish (SSN-612) stands on the beginning of the launching ways on 15 May 1965.
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 | 226k | The Guardfish (SSN-612) is ready to be moved to the fitting out dock after her launching as a tug stands by. | US Navy photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 71k | Guardfish (SSN-612) sliding down the launching ways at New York Shipbuilding Corp, Camden, NJ. 15 May 1965.
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 | 122k | Commemorative post mark of the launching of Guardfish (SSN-612) on 15 May 1965.
| Courtesy of Jack Treutle. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 30k | Starboard beam view of the Guardfish (SSN-612) underway, probably during her alpha sea-trials off the Atlantic coast, 1965-66. | Photo courtesy of New York Shipbuilding., yorkship.home.comcast.net. |
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 | 108k | Port side view of the Guardfish (SSN-612) underway, probably during her alpha sea-trials off the Atlantic coast, 1965-66. | Official US Navy photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr.
 433k | Six page instruction in steps necessary in preparing for a visit by VADM Rickover to the Guardfish (SSN-612) in 1966. She was likely going on builders trials in August 1966.
| US Navy photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. |
 83k | The Guardfish (SSN-612) lies under a blanket of snow waiting commissioning at the New York Shipbuilding Corp. Camden N.J., 20 December 1966.
| USN photo. |
 23k | Commemorative post card marking the commissioning of the Guardfish (SSN-612), 20 December 1966.
| Courtesy of Richard Leonhardt. |
 33k | Commemorative post mark of the Panama Canal Transit of Guardfish (SSN-612) on 8 Sep 1967.
| USN photo courtesy of Jack Treutle. |
 23k | Guardfish (SSN-612) in dry dock late 1967.
| Courtesy of Stan Nove / USS Guardfish web page. |
 109k | A brief operational history of the Guardfish (SSN-612) from 1965 - 1982. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. |
 505k | Cold War adventures, May 1972. | US Navy photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. |
 345k | The Guardfish (SSN-612) is grounded somewhere at sometime. | US Navy photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. |
 368k | A small helping hand arrives. | US Navy photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. |
 240k | A row of buoys show in the background as more help arrives. | US Navy photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. |
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Four Thresher Class boats exercise on 20 May 1968: |
Plunger (SSN-595), Barb (SSN-596), Guardfish (SSN-612) & Flasher (SSN-613). US Navy photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. |
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Four Thresher Class boats exercise on 20 May 1968 in color: |
Plunger (SSN-595), Barb (SSN-596), Guardfish (SSN-612) & Flasher (SSN-613). US Navy photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. |
Photo added 08/15/11.  37k | Guardfish (SSN-612) and the Daniel Webster (SSBN-626), in the Panama Canal, 14 March 1970. We were heading back to Pearl after the shipyard in Miss. If I remember right this was the only time two nukes were in the canal at one time. It was some kind of a first.
| Courtesy of Jeff Kelly / USS Guardfish web page. Partial text info courtesy of Skip Spahr, TM02 (SS.) |
 21k | Commander Garland H. Kanady, Jr. graduated from Dartmouth College in 1960 and was assigned directly to Submarine School. He served for two and one half years in Catfish (SS-339) until he entered the Nuclear Power Program in October 1963. After nuclear power training he served for three years in Skate (SSN-578), for two years as Engineer Officer at the S1C Nuclear Power Training Unit in Windsor, Connecticut, and for two years as Navigator and Operations Officer in Aspro (SSN-648). Before taking command of Guardfish (SSN-612) in July 1975, he served as executive officer of Henry Clay (SSBN-625) (Gold). | During his tour as commanding officer, Guardfish went through a refueling/SUBSAFE overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, completing her first dive to full test depth in 1977. She also completed a successful deployment to WESTPAC and conducted special operations with one of the first digital sonar systems to deploy in the Pacific. After leaving Guardfish in February 1979, Commander Kanady served in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Submarine Warfare and in the Office of the Secretary of Defense before retiring from the Navy in 1986. U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Bill Gonyo. |
 101k | Guardfish (SSN-612) is seen in dry dock 1 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 28 Sep 1983. She was in overhaul at the yard from 3 Oct 1983 until 20 Aug 1985. | Note: The X's marked on her side are to check for a Radiation survey. Yard checked areas of the hull when it dry docked ships to make sure there was no radioactive contamination. USN photo # 199009-9-83, courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. |
 79k | Guardfish (SSN-612) is seen in dry dock 1 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 28 Sep 1983. | USN photo # 199009-10-83, courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. |
 954k | Guardfish (SSN-612) off Point Loma in this undated photo. | USN photo courtesy of Jim Stats and submitted by Darryl L. Baker. |
 36k | The Guardfish (SSN-612) is shown arriving at Mare Island for overhaul in mid September 1983. She was in overhaul from 3 Oct 1983 to 20 Aug 1985. She received an upgraded BQQ-5 sonar and a MK 117 Fire Control system during the overhaul. The tug DeKaury (YTM-178) is assisting Guardfish to her berth.
| Official US Navy photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker.
|  48k | An Oil on Masonite painting by the artist John Charles Roach, entitled "Ballast Point, San Diego", depicts sub base with subs and tenders at the pier in San Diego during mid 1986.
The tenders were possibly the
McKee (AS-42) for Subron 7: | Dixon (AS-37) for Subron 3: Among the subs were the: Dolphin (AGSS-555): Gudgeon (SS-567): Albacore (AGSS-569): Barbel (SS-580): Blueback (SS-581): Permit (SSN-594): Plunger (SSN-595): Pollack (SSN-603) Haddo (SSN-604): Guardfish (SSN-612): Haddock (SSN-621): Sturgeon (SSN-637): Gurnard (SSN-662) : Hawkbill (SSN-666): Pintado (SSN-672): Drum (SSN-677): William H. Bates (SSN-680): La Jolla (SSN-701): Portsmouth (SSN-707) & Salt Lake City (SSN-716). Ballast Point, San Diego |
John Charles Roach 1986.5 Oil on Masonite , 1986, courtesy of the USNHC, # 88-163-CR. Text contributed by OMC J. Reid Pallady USNR-RET & QM2(SS) David Johnston, USNR.  384k | A lieutenant mans the periscope in the control room aboard the nuclear-powered attack submarine Guardfish (SSN-612), 1 Feb 1987.
| Official U.S. Navy photo # DN-ST-90-07857, by PH1 Harry Gerwien, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. & submitted by Bill Gonyo. |
 544k | A petty officer climbs up a ladder to the deck of the nuclear-powered attack submarine Guardfish (SSN-612), 1 Feb 1987.
| Official U.S. Navy photo # DN-ST-90-07856, by PH1 Harry Gerwien, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. & submitted by Bill Gonyo. |
 46k | Promotional photo of Guardfish (SSN-612) off of Point Loma, San Diego, CA.
| Courtesy of Dan Demmons / USS Guardfish web page. |
 105k | Clipping from the 20 Feb 1992 edition of the "Salute", Puget Sound Naval Shipyard's newspaper showing crew members of the Guardfish (SSN-612) folding the flag for the last time during decommissioning ceremonies at the shipyard on 4 Feb 1992. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. |
 64k | Port side view of the Guardfish (SSN-612) underway, date & location unknown. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. |
 127k | Commemorative post mark of the decommissioning of Guardfish (SSN-612) on 04 February 1992 at Naval Submarine Base at Bremerton, WA.
| Courtesy of Jack Treutle. |
 54k | CDR. Paul M. Higgins was the last Commanding Officer of the Guardfish (SSN-612) serving from 9 Nov. 1990 to 2 February 1992. He served as the Commanding Officer of the Lafayette (SSBN-616) (Blue) crew from 1989 to 1990 prior to his assignment aboard the Guardfish. | Photo courtesy of the USS Guardfish website via Bill Gonyo. |
 83k | Trench 94, Hanford Site, Washington, 1994. Hull sections containing defueled reactor compartments of decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines are put in disposal trenches. Once full, the trench will be filled with dirt and buried. The compartments are expected to retain their integrity for more than 600 years. | USN photo & partial text courtesy of home.flash.net/~tomj/tunny/chop/rx. & submitted by Jack Treutle. |
 569k | Sealed reactor compartments are shipped by barge out of Puget Sound Naval Base down the coast and along the Columbia River to the port of Benton. There the radioactively-contaminated hull sections are transferred to special multiwheeled high-load trailers for transport to the Hanford Reservation in Washington State. Pictured below is the burial ground for spent fuel of the following 77 nuclear reactor submarines as of March 2003: | Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), Snook (SSN-592), George Washington (SSBN-598), Scamp (SSN-588), Robert E. Lee (SSBN-601), Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600), Dace (SSN-607), John Adams (SSBN-620), Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602), Barb (SSN-596), Ethan Allen (SSBN-608), Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), Pollack (SSN-603), Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685), James Monroe (SSBN-622), Skipjack (SS-585), Nathan Hale (SSBN-623), Plunger (SSN-595), Shark (SSN-591), Lafayette (SSBN-616), Sam Houston (SSBN-609), Jack (SSN-605), Haddo (SSN-604), Tinosa (SSN-606), Guardfish (SSN-612), Permit (SSN-594), Queenfish (SSN-651), Ulysses S. Grant (SSBN-631), John Marshall (SSBN-611), George C. Marshall (SSBN-654), Flasher (SSN-613), Guitarro (SSN-665), Alexander Hamilton (SSBN-617), George Washington Carver (SSBN-656), Tecumseh (SSBN-628), Halibut (SSGN-587), Will Rogers (SSBN-659), Henry L. Stimson (SSBN-655), Daniel Boone (SSBN-629), Greenling (SSN-614), John C. Calhoun (SSBN-630), Casimir Pulaski (SSBN-633), Skate (SSN-578), Sargo (SSN-583), Francis Scott Key (SSBN-657), Sturgeon (SSN-637), Benjamin Franklin (SSBN-640), Swordfish (SSN-579), Seadragon (SSN-584), Stonewall Jackson (SSBN-634), Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641), Hammerhead (SSN-663), Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-658) , Tullibee (SSN-597), Lewis & Clark (SSBN-644), Pargo (SSN-650), Seahorse (SSN-669), Gurnard (SSN-662), Flying Fish (SSN-673), Gato (SSN-615), Puffer (SSN-652), Seawolf (SSN-575), Baton Rouge (SSN-689), Bergall (SSN-667), Whale (SSN-638), Henry Clay (SSBN-625), James Madison (SSBN-627), Finback (SSN-670), Spadefish (SSN-668), Sunfish (SSN-649), George Bancroft (SSBN-643), Grayling (SSN-646), Pintado (SSN-672), Tunny (SSN-682), Archerfish (SSN-678), & Woodrow Wilson (SSBN-624). USN photo & partial text courtesy of home.flash.net/~tomj/tunny/chop/rx. & submitted by Jack Treutle. |
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