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 | 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. | U.S. Navy Photo courtesy of Robert Hall. | |
 | 160k | Display commemorative of Guitarro (SSN-665) of a June 1981 Tomahawk War Shot. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 124k | The Guitarro(SSN-665) at Ballast Point, San Diego, prior to a Change of Command ceremony on 18 July 1981. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 202k | The Guitarro (SSN-665) Change of Command is seen in progress on 18 July 1981 at Ballast Point San Diego, Calif. The Sam Houston (SSBN-609) is alongside the Dixon (AS-37) aft of Guitarro . | USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 98k | The Guitarro (SSN-665) returned to Mare Island on 4 June 1984 for a major overhaul.
CDR B. M. Shaft, USN, Commanding Officer of Guitarro (right) shake hands
with the ship's sponsor Mrs. McNay Taylor (center). Capt. E. J. Scheyder, USN,
Commander Mare Island Naval Shipyard is to the left.
| USN photo # MSA 262748-6-84, courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
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Readiness awards are shown on the sail of the Guitarro (SSN-665) upon her
return to Mare Island for a major overhaul on 4 June 1984.
| USN photo # MSA 202756-6-84, courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 225k | Guitarro (SSN-665) at her berth at Mare Island while undergoing overhaul in October 1985. YFN-1200 is alongside. | US Navy photo # 211109, courtesy of Darryl Baker. Photo added 04/24/08. | |
 | 180k | Gen. Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff, signs a guest book in the wardroom of the Guitarro (SSN-665) in 1990. Third officer to the right behind Gen. Powell is Gen. Mikhail Molseyev, Soviet First Deputy Minister of Defense. The Commanding Officer of Guitarro, CDR John F. Teply (far right) looks on.
| USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 124k | The submarine tender Dixon (AS-37) departs San Diego 17 Sep 1990 with the nuclear-powered attack submarines Guitarro (SSN-665), left, and Gurnard (SSN-662). The ships will be taking part in Exercise FallEx '90.
| Official US Navy photo # DN-SC-91-04869, by PH 2 Patrick W. Muscatt, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. & submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 208k | Guitarro (SSN-665) in San Diego off Ballast Point. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
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Guitarro (SSN-665) off the coast of San Francisco, date unknown. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 20k | Commemorative post mark issued on the ocassion of the Guitarro's (SSN-665) inactivation in 13 Sept. 1991. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle. | |
 | 227k | Guitarro (SSN-665) in San Diego off Ballast Point. She is leaveing San Diego for the last time heading to Mare Island for inactivation in Oct 1991. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 135k | RADM Mike T. Coyle, USN, Commander Mare Island Naval Shipyard address the
crew and civilian employees of the shipyard during the decommissioning ceremonies
of the Guitarro (SSN-665) on 29 May 1992 at Mare Island. She was in dry
dock 2. CDR Robert S. Brown, USN, Commanding Officer, Guitarro and LCDR
Michael P. Hutter, USN, XO are shown seated (left to right).
| USN photo # 252917, courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
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The colors are lowered for the last time aboard Guitarro (SSN-665) during
her decommissioning at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 29 May 1992.
| USN photo # 252920, courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
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CDR Robert S. Brown, USN, Commanding Officer Guitarro (SSN-665) departs the ship
after her decommissioning at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 29 May 1992.
| USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
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This photo was issued by the Guitarro (SSN-665) and the Mare Island Project Team to
mark the inactivation of the ship at Mare Island. She was inactivated at the
yard from 1 Oct 1991 until 20 July 1992.
| USN photo # 250837, courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 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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