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1.43k | Lewis & Clark (SSBN-644) launching ceremony on 21 November 1964. Rep. Thomas N. Downing of Virginia is at the podium. Under construction to the ship's left is the Queenfish (SSN-651). | Photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
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86k | Queenfish (SSN-651) was sponsored by Hon. Julia Butler Hansen, Congresswoman from the 3rd district from the State of Washington. | Photo courtesy of wikimedia.org | |
 | 26k | The Queenfish (SSN-651) slides down the ways at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA. on 25 February 1966. | Photo courtesy of Joe Burson / queenfish.org & submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 765k | Commissioning of the Queenfish (SSN-651) on 6 December 1966. | USN photos courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
 | 602k | Pre-commissioning photo of the Queenfish (SSN-651), December 1966. | USN photo # NPC K-34617, courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 1.13k | The Queenfish (SSN-651) underway probably during her trials. Despite the sea breeze & salt in their faces I can imagine those sailors saying I always wanted one of these as a kid! | USN photos courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 265k | Pacific Queenfish (SSN-651) on 14 September 1967. | USN photo # NPC KN-15094, courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 43k | Oil on canvas painting by the artist Jim Christley entitled "Trailing". During the Cold War the US Naval Submarine Force was tasked with keeping tabs on Soviet Naval movements in particular, the Soviet Submarine Force. Submarines of the Sturgeon Class were well suited to this task and often trailed Soviet submarines for days reporting on their movements and recording noise signatures. In this image, such a trailing has turned into a close aboard encounter as a Soviet Viktor III Class has turned to port to check his baffles (to listen to see if anyone is immediately astern). A trailing Sturgeon has stopped his screw and gone quiet. Extending far behind the US submarine is its towed array sonar which assists in giving a clear picture of the ocean's acoustics. | Photo & text courtesy of subart.net. | |
 | 145k | Submerged submarines in tandem. | USN photo courtesy of Robert Hall. | |
 | 747k | Seaman Apprentice Gerald R. Acock, USN, mans his station at the control panel of Queenfish (SSN-651) as she nears the North Pole. August 1970. | USN photo # USN 1145592, Photographed by PHC C.L. Wright, courtesy of the National Museum of the U.S. Navy, courtesy of flickr.com. | |
 | 38k | Santa Claus greets crewmen of the Queenfish (SSN-651) at the North Pole (Chief Quartermaster Jack Pataterson as Santa), summer 1970. | USN photo courtesy of USNI. | |
 | 80k | Queenfish (SSN-651) at the North Pole, summer 1970. | USN photo courtesy - DOE, The Atomic Century web site. | |
 | 72k | Queenfish (SSN-651) at the North Pole, summer 1970. | USN photo courtesy of Arctic Submarine Laboratory. | |
 | 77k | The sun casts a shadow on the Queenfish (SSN-651) as she surfaces in the Arctic pack at a region of thin ice known as a polynya, possibly summer 1970. | USN photo courtesy of Robert Hurst. | |
 | 171k | Queenfish (SSN-651) divers prepare to photograph and observe the underside of the ice near the surfaced submarine, 5 August 1970. | USN photo # K-87307, Photographed by PHC B.M. Andersen, courtesy of the National Museum of the U.S. Navy, courtesy of flickr.com. | |
 | 624k | October 1969 Bio for RADM Walter L. Small, USN. Per the bio he commanded Batfish (SS-310), Clamagore (SS-343), Van Valkenburgh (DD-656) and Sperry (AS-12). The photo is of RADM Small addressing officer and men of SUBPAC during the change of command of SUBPAC on 10/13/70 aboard the Queenfish (SSN-651). Note Sailfish (SS-572) is in the background. |
USN photo courtesy of the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum via Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 168k | Cmdr Bacon of the Diego Garcia Yacht club member Queenfish (SSN-651). | USN photo # NPC KN-15094, courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 60k | Under-ice mapper. Commissioned in 1966, the Queenfish (SSN-651) was a nuclear-powered attack submarine, the first in a new class designed with additional abilities for sailing under ice. The Queenfish had upward-looking sonar that could map the jagged underside of Arctic ice and rudders and control surfaces that were reinforced to break through thin ice without damage. | USN photo & text courtesy of NY Times from the article: "Queenfish: A Cold War Tale" 18 March 2008, by William J. Broad. | |
 | 72k | Two-part mission. The Queenfish (SSN-651) set off in late July 1970 on a mission to survey the undersea Arctic. Although far smaller than the Atlantic or the Pacific, the Arctic Ocean is six times the size of the Mediterranean Sea but still relatively unexplored because of the constantly changing ice cover, which averages 10 feet thick. For the second half of the voyage, the submarine explored the continental shelf off Siberia, within the 230 miles of shore that the Soviet Union claimed as territorial waters but outside the 12 miles that the United States recognized. To avoid identification by the Soviets, all markings on the submarine including the number were removed. | USN photo & text courtesy of NY Times from the article: "Queenfish: A Cold War Tale" 18 March 2008, by William J. Broad. | |
 | 49k | The Path of the Queenfish (SSN-651). | USN photo & text courtesy of NY Times from the article: "Queenfish: A Cold War Tale" 18 March 2008, by William J. Broad courtesy of the book "Unknown Waters," by Dr. Alfred S. McLaren (USN ret). | |
 | 55k | Thinning ice. This view through the periscope on 3 August was typical: ice and water. The first half of the Queenfish's (SSN-651) journey retraced most of the path that the Nautilus (SSN-571) took in its historic 1958 trip to the North Pole, the first vessel to travel there under the ice. Alfred S. McLaren, the Queenfish's (SSN-651) commander, wanted to compare the ice conditions of 1970 with those 18 years earlier. The ice had, on average, thinned 28 inches between those two voyages. | USN photo & text courtesy of NY Times from the article: "Queenfish: A Cold War Tale" 18 March 2008, by William J. Broad. | |
 | 42k | Polar bear watch. Commander McLaren and a crew member stand on watch for polar bears. Later in the voyage, the Queenfish (SSN-651) had a memorable encounter with a polar bear family. | USN photo & text courtesy of NY Times from the article: "Queenfish: A Cold War Tale" 18 March 2008, by William J. Broad. | |
 | 54k | Makeshift number. On 5 August the Queenfish (SSN-651) became the 10th American submarine to reach the geographic North Pole. It then surfaced through a hole in the ice about 500 yards away. Notice the number. To avoid identification during its secret survey along Siberia, the number and other identifying markings had been removed from the Queenfish. But for these photographs at the North Pole, the crew affixed numbers made out of cardboard. | USN photo & text courtesy of NY Times from the article: "Queenfish: A Cold War Tale" 18 March 2008, by William J. Broad. | |
 | 42k | Polar photo op. Commander McLaren posing with the Hawaiian state flag at the North Pole. (The home port of the Queenfish (SSN-651) is Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.) The 117 members of the crew had to share the limited amount of clothing deemed acceptable for photographing, including the "submarine sweater" Commander McLaren was wearing. The one hour allocated for photographs stretched to more than six hours. | USN photo & text courtesy of NY Times from the article: "Queenfish: A Cold War Tale" 18 March 2008, by William J. Broad. | |
 | 339k | The Queenfish (SSN-651) at the North Pole on 6 August 1970. | Text courtesy of NY Times from the article: "Queenfish: A Cold War Tale" 18 March 2008, by William J. Broad. USN photo courtesy of Alfred S. McLaren, Captain, USN (Ret.) via Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 39k | A cold swim. A team of scuba divers swam in the 29.5-degree water to take photographs of the underside of the ice. Winds and currents cause ice floes to pile up on each other. Later analysis showed that the ice within eight miles of the North Pole was, on average, 13 feet thick. In parts, where the ice floes piled up, it was close to 58 feet thick; in other spots, where the ice had been pushed aside, there was open water. | USN photo & text courtesy of NY Times from the article: "Queenfish: A Cold War Tale" 18 March 2008, by William J. Broad. | |
 | 35k | Up scope. Another time, Commander McLaren looked through the periscope and saw ... | USN photo & text courtesy of NY Times from the article: "Queenfish: A Cold War Tale" 18 March 2008, by William J. Broad. | |
 | 47k | The three bears. ... a polar bear and two cubs walking on the ice pack. | USN photo & text courtesy of NY Times from the article: "Queenfish: A Cold War Tale" 18 March 2008, by William J. Broad. | |
 | 41k | Bear attack. The polar bears jumped into the water and swam directly at the periscope. "The cross hairs are on her nose," Dr. McLaren recalled in 2002. "And I'm thinking, 'How am I going to explain teeth marks on my periscope when I get back to port.?' " The bear sniffed at the periscope and turned away, with the cubs following. | USN photo & text courtesy of NY Times from the article: "Queenfish: A Cold War Tale" 18 March 2008, by William J. Broad. | |
 | 51k | Tight squeeze. In places, the Queenfish (SSN-651), 54 feet high in the middle, found itself hemmed in by ice above and sea floor below. scrapping the seabed or grazing the overhanging ice could have damaged the propellers or rudder. At one point, the boat entered an underwater ice cul-de-sac. It took an hour for it to back out safely. | USN photo & text courtesy of NY Times from the article: "Queenfish: A Cold War Tale" 18 March 2008, by William J. Broad. | |
 | 68k | Mission accomplished. The Queenfish (SSN-651) passed south through the Bering Strait on 30 August after traveling 3,100 nautical miles along the Siberian coast. It arrived at Pearl Harbor, its home port, on 11 September 1970. (Note that there is no number on its side, unlike the photograph at the North Pole.) | USN photo & text courtesy of NY Times from the article: "Queenfish: A Cold War Tale" 18 March 2008, by William J. Broad. | |
 | 746k | The Queenfish (SSN-651) is helped along as she approaches the Magnetic Silencing Facility at Naval Base Kitsap Bangor for her deperming treatment circa mid 1970's. The deperming process reduces a ships electromagnetic signature as she travels through the water. | USN photos courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 91k | The Queenfish (SSN-651) garners her laurels at Submarine Base Pearl Harbor, HI., 1979. | Photo queenfish.org courtesy of Roger Buck & submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 1.03k | Thirteen page PDF Welcome Aboard the Queenfish (SSN-651), circa 1975. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 625k | The Queenfish (SSN-651) underway, 18 July 1980. | USN photos courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 215k | Barbel (SS-580) and Darter (SS-576), at Sub base Pearl Harbor, June 1985. The Topside Watch on the Darter is TMSN(SS) Russ Dzielak and TMSA Jeff Buzzard. Directly astern of the duo is the Queenfish (SSN-651). | Photo by David Johnston (USN, retired) . | |
 | 62k | Undated photo of the Queenfish (SSN-651) at Pearl Harbor. | USN photo courtesy of Robert Hall. | |
 | 118k | Queenfish (SSN-651) commanded by J.R. Harvey, underway, circa mid 1980's. | Official USN photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr. | |
 | 424k | A starboard view of the nuclear powered attack submarine Queenfish (SSN-651) underway near Naval Station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 1 June 1989. | Defense Visual Information Center photo # DN-SC-92-04502, by OS2 John Bouvia, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
 | 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 submitted by Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 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). As time passes & more boats are retired from service and their reactors are brought here, so the numbers rise. In this photo dated November 2009, 98 nuclear submarines and six nuclear cruisers have been recycled. For an up to date view, click here | USN photo submitted by Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). Insert link courtesy of wikimedia.org |
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| Commanding Officers | |||
| 01 | CDR. Richard, Jackson Bethune, USN (USNA 1952) | 06.12.1966 - 12.09.1969 First Date in Commission | |
| 02 | CDR. McLaren, Alfred Scott, USN (USNA 1955) | 12.09.1969 - 05.05.1973 | |
| 03 | CDR. Lehmberg Jr., George Russell, USN (USNA 1959) | 05.05.1973 - 14.02.1977 | |
| 04 | CDR. Daughters II, Milo Philip, USN (USNA 1963) | 14.02.1977 - 03.04.1980 | |
| 05 | CDR. Boyer III, Philip Albert, USN (USNA 1964) | 03.04.1980 - 23.07.1984 | |
| 06 | CDR. Harvey, James Raymond (Jim), USN (USNA 1968) | 23.07.1984 - 14.08.1987 | |
| 07 | CDR. Joslin III, Charles Loring, USN (USNA 1969) | 14.08.1987 - 07.03.1990 | |
| 08 | CDR. Virgilio, Richard Louis, USN (USNA 1973) | 07.03.1990 - 21.09.1990 Last Date in Commission | |
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