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Flasher (SSN-613)
Inactivation Ceremony Program


Radio Call Sign: November - Uniform - Romeo - Tango
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Thresher Class Attack Submarine: Laid down, 14 April 1961, at the Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT.; Launched, 22 June 1963; Commissioned, USS Flasher (SSN-613), 22 July 1966; Decommissioned and simultaneously struck from the Naval Register, 26 May 1992; Final Disposition, disposed of through the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program (NPSSRP) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 11 May 1994.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 3,540 t., Submerged: 4,200 t.; Length 292'; Beam 31' 8"; ; Speed, Surfaced 15 kts, Submerged 28+ kts; Operating Depth 400'; Complement, 143; Sensors, BQR-5 bow mounted sonar, TB-26 Towed Sonar Array; Armament, four 21" torpedo tubes, forward, MK 48 torpedoes, UUM-44A SUBROC, UGM-84A/C Harpoon, MK 57 deep water mines, Mk 60 CAPTOR mines; Propulsion System, one S5W nuclear reactor, two Westinghouse steam turbines, one propeller 15,000 shp.
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Flasher113k Front Cover of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program, held at the US Naval Submarine Base, Point Loma, San Diego, CA on 18 June 1991. Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher79k Page 1 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program. Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher78k Page 2 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program. Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher79k Page 3 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program. Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher90k Page 4 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program. Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher90k Page 5 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program. Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher75k Page 6 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program on 18 June 1991.
She is pictured here during her commissioning on 22 July 1966. Among the submarines in the background is the Hardhead (SS-365). 		Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher72k Page 7 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program.
Pictured here are her Commissioning crew officers. 		Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher122k Page 8 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program.
Pictured here are her non-coms & crew. 		Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher76k Page 9 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program.
Pictured here is her WW II battleflag. 		Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher92k Page 10 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program.
Pictured here are the names of her former commanding officers.		 Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher130k Page 11 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program. Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher149k Page 12 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program. Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher91k Page 13 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program. Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher106k Page 14 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program. Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher75k Page 15 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program. Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher63k Page 16 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program. Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher61k Page 17 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program.
Pictured here are her officers on deck.		 Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher85k Page 18 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program.
Pictured here are her non-coms & crew. 		Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher80k Page 19 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program.
Pictured here are highlights of her career.		 Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher70k Page 20 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program.
Pictured here are highlights of her career.		 Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher62k Page 21 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program.
Pictured here is the WW II Flasher (SS-249) underway and her total score card of ships sunk & damaged. 		Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher71k Page 22 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program. Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher79k Page 23 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program.
Pictured here is the WW II Flasher (SS-249) and her total score card of ships sunk & damaged. 		Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher94k Page 24 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program.
Pictured here is the Flasher's (SS-249) crew on parade after the war. 		Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher73k Page 25 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program.
She is pictured here off the coast of Hawaii. 		Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher52k Page 26 of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program. Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Flasher51kBack cover of the Flasher's (SSN-613) Inactivation Ceremony Program.
She is pictured situated behind a palm tree, similar to the 1920's Navy photographer Tai Sing Loo, who often set his pictures up in this manner.		 Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
There is no DANFS History currently available for Flasher (SSN-613) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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