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Bluefish (SSN-675)

Sturgeon Class Attack Submarine: Laid down, 13 March 1968, at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT.; Launched, 10 January 1970; Commissioned, USS Bluefish (SSN-675), 8 January 1971; Decommissioned and simultaneously struck from the Naval Register, 6 June 1996; Final Disposition, laid up at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard awaiting entry into the NPSSRP (Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA..

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
97k	The Bluefish (SSN-675) off Groton, CT., following her launching, 10 January 1970.	Electric Boat / USN / USNI photo.
128k	The Bluefish (SSN-675), possibly off Groton, CT., following her launching, 10 January 1970.	Official US Navy photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr.
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. Photo added 04/22/07.
38k	Bluefish (SSN-675),(outboard) & Sea Devil (SSN-664) at D&S Piers Norfolk, VA. 1975.	Courtesy of John Hummel.
36k	Commemorative postal cover issued on the occasion of the Bluefish (SSN-675), at the North Pole, 4 May 1975.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
89k	Bluefish (SSN-675), at the North Pole, 4 May 1975.	US Navy photo courtesy of US Navy Arctic Submarine Laboratory.
73k	Bluefish (SSN-675), at the North Pole, 4 May 1975.	Courtesy of John Hummel.
19k	Artic Submarine patch.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
114k	Commemorative postal cover issued on the occasion of the Bluefish (SSN-675), at the Virgin Islands, 29 November 1983.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
484k	A starboard quarter view of the nuclear-powered attack submarine Bluefish (SSN-675) underway off Puerto Rico, 1 Feb 1991.	Official U.S. Navy Photograph # DN-ST-91-05706, by PH1 Raymond J. Curtis, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
100k	Port broadside view of the Bluefish (SSN-675) cutting through the ocean in this undated photo.	USN photo courtesy of Robert Hurst.
130k	Bluefish (SSN-675), underway, date and location unhnown.	Courtesy of John Hummel.
27k	From left to right, Drum (SSN-677), Bluefish (SSN-675), Ray (SSN-653), Lapon (SSN-661) and Richard B. Russell (SSN-687), await scrapping at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 8 October 2001.	Courtesy of Don Sheldon.
56k	Plaque of the Bluefish (SSN-675) on display at the Naval and Maritime Museum at Patriots Point, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.	Courtesy of Robert Hall. Photo added 04/22/07.

There is no DANFS History currently available for Bluefish (SSN-675) 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
FAS--SSN-637 Sturgeon class
Bluefish SSN 675 by Wayne Booker

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