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Bergall (SSN-667)

Sturgeon Class Attack Submarine: Laid down, 4 April 1966, at the Electric Boat Works Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT.; Launched, 17 February 1968; Commissioned, USS Bergall (SSN-667), 13 June 1969; Inactivated, 4 August 1995; Decommissioned, 6 June 1996; Struck from the Naval Register, 6 June 1997; Final Disposition, disposed of through the NPSSRP (Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 29 September 1997.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 3,640 t., Submerged: 4,640 t.; Length 292' 3"; Beam 31' 8"; Draft 28' 8"; Speed, Surfaced 15 kts, Submerged 25 kts; Depth limit 1,300'; Complement 108; Armament, four 21" torpedo tubes amidships aft of bow, MK 48 Torpedoes, UUM-44A SUBROC, UGM-84A/C Harpoon, MK 57 deep water mines, MK 60 CAPTOR mines; Combat Sensors, Radar, BPS-14/15 surface search, Sonars, BQQ-5 multi-function bow mounted, BQR-7 passive in submarines with BQQ-2, BQS-12 active 7, TB-16 or TB-23 towed array, EW Systems, WLQ-4(V), WLR-4(V), WLR-9 ; Propulsion System, one S5W nuclear reactor, two steam turbines, one propeller, 15,000 shp.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
32k	The Bergall (SSN-667) slides down the launching ways, 17 February 1968, at the Electric Boat Works of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT.	US Navy photo, courtesy Mike Brood, USS Bergall SSN-667 Web Site.
35k	Commemorative post mark on the occasion of the Bergall's (SSN-667) launching, 17 February 1968.	Photo courtesy of Jack Treutle.
15k	Commemorative post mark on the occasion of the Bergall's (SSN-667) commissioning, 13 June 1969.	Photo courtesy of Jack Treutle.
100k	Bergall (SSN-667), underway, possibly during her seatrials off the coast of New England, circa 1968-69.	Official US Navy photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr.
56k	Commemorative drawing on the fictional occasion of the Bergall (SS-320) meeting her future namesake, Bergall (SSN-667).	Courtesy of Mike Brood.
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.
31k	Commemorative postal cover issued on the Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle Mystic (DSRV-1) & Bergall (SSN-667), operating together, 19 September 1978.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
16k	As I remember, it was the first trip of the Mystic (DSRV-1) from the west coast to a east coast submarine. We took it out on the Bergall's (SSN-667) back. At sea, they practiced rescue from one escape hatch to the other. The boat had to have special white painted on the hull to aid in the (DSRV-1) from the west coast to a east coast submarine. We took it out on the *Bergall's* navigation. We even played the movie, "Gray Lady Down", during the run. While watching the movie we would point to some of the crew of the (DSRV-1) as we would recognize them in the movie.	US Navy photo, courtesy of Dennis Lawyer & Mike Brood, USS Bergall SSN-667 Web Site.
73k	Bergall (SSN-667) & Spadefish (SSN-668) inboard of the submarine tender LY Spear (AS-36) at D&S piers Norfolk VA. in 1994.	Photo courtesy of John Hummel. Photo added 05/13/07.
31k	Haddock (SSN-621), at top, followed by Ethan Allen (SSBN-608), Aspro (SSN-648), Bergal (SSN-667) and Silversides (SSN-679) at bottom, awaiting scrapping at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 1997.	Photo courtesy of Don Shelton.
20k	Bergall (SSN-667), emergency surfacing maneuver, date unknown.	US Navy photo, courtesy Mike Brood, USS Bergall SSN-667 Web Site.
531k	A civilian truck is backed out on one of the destroyer and submarine (D&S) piers at NAS Norfolk Va, on 1 Jan 1997 to deliver a vertical launch missile for loading on board a *Los Angeles class* sub. In the background is the torpedo retriever *TR-1, the bow of the Spruance class* destroyer Arthur W. Radford (DD-968) and three *Sturgeon class* nuclear-powered attack boats, one of which is the Bergall (SSN-667), closet to the camera.	US Navy photo DN-ST-9700724 by PH1 Michael Flynn, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
33k	Commemorative postal cover issued on the Bergall's (SSN-667) inactivation after 25 years of service, 4 August 1995.	Courtesy of 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.

There is no DANFS History currently available for Bergall (SSN-667) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
USS Bergall SSN 667 Homepage
FAS--SSN-637 Sturgeon class

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