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NavSource Online: Submarine Photo Archive

Patch on left contributed by Mike Smolinski, on right by Jack Treutle

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Archerfish (SSN-678)

Sturgeon Class Attack Submarine: Laid down, 19 June 1969, at the Electric Boat Div., General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT.; Launched, 16 January 1971; Commissioned, USS Archerfish (SSN-678), 17 December 1971, at New London, CT.; Decommissioned and simultaneously struck from the Naval Register, 31 March 1998; Final Disposition, disposed of through (NPSSRP) the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 6 November 1998.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 3,640 t., Submerged: 4,640 t.; Length 302'; 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-13 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
69k	The Archerfish (SSN-678) slides stern first into the waters of the Atlantic during her launching, 17 December 1971.	Courtesy of Electric Boat.
21k	Commemorative post card marking the launching of the Archerfish (SSN-678), 17 December 1971.	Courtesy of Richard Leonhardt.
86k	The Commanding officer in the cockpit of the Archerfish (SSN-678), possibly during her seatrials off the New England coast, 1971-72.	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.
327k	The expanse of endless waste seems to engulf the Ray (SSN-653), Hawkbill (SSN-666), and & Archerfish (SSN-678) together at the North Pole, 6 May 1986 during ICEX 86.	Official U.S. Navy Photograph # DN-SC-86-07410, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
441k	An elevated view of the attack submarines Ray (SSN-653), Hawkbill (SSN-666), and & Archerfish (SSN-678) surfaced at the geographic North Pole, 6 May 1986 during ICEX 86. This is the first time three nuclear-powered submarines have simultaneously surfaced at the pole.	Official U.S. Navy Photograph # DN-SC-86-07408, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
95k	Archerfish (SSN-678), with DDS at Groton 7-13-91.	Photo by Ken Hart.
235k	A pair of rigid-hull inflatable boats from Special Boat Unit 4 (SBU-4) operate alongside the nuclear-powered attack submarine Archerfish (SSN-678) during the joint service exercise Ocean Venture '93, off the coast of Puerto Rico on 5 May 1993. The *Archerfish* has a dry deck shelter attached to its deck.	Official U.S. Navy Photograph # DN-ST-93-05192, by PH2 (DV) Glen Hurd, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. & submitted by Bill Gonyo.
280k	Starboard bow view of Archerfish (SSN-678), with DDS at pier 31 south, Groton, May 1995.	Photo by Ken Hart.
150k	Port bow view of Archerfish (SSN-678) at pier 31 south in New London, May 1995.	Photo by Ken Hart.
129k	View of the sail of the Archerfish (SSN-678), May 1995.	Photo by Ken Hart.
98k	Close-up view of DDS on Archerfish (SSN-678) aft deck., May 1995.	Photo by Ken Hart.
21k	Archerfish (SSN-678), after breaking through the Arctic ice cap, 5 September 1997.	US Navy photo, courtesy of the Arctic Submarine Laboratory.
47k	Commemorative post card marking the occasion of the Archerfish (SSN-678) breaking through the Arctic ice cap, 5 September 1997.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
28k	Commemorative post card marking the occasion of the Archerfish (SSN-678) breaking through the Arctic ice cap, 5 September 1997 during the SCICEX 1997 Expedition.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
24k	Archerfish (SSN-678) on the Surface during SCICEX 1997 Expedition.	US Navy photo, courtesy of the Arctic Submarine Laboratory & csp.navy.mil.
163k	The U.S. Navy's nuclear powered *Sturgeon Class* submarine, Archerfish (SSN-678), prepares to transfer CNN media crews off the coast of Augusta Bay, Sicily, March 5, 1997.	US Navy photo N-6135B-008 Lieutenant Barbara A. Burfeind, courtesy of csp.navy.mil.
195k	Archerfish (SSN-678) off the coast of Augusta Bay, Sicily, March 5, 1997.	US Navy photo N-6135B-010 Lieutenant Barbara A. Burfeind, courtesy of csp.navy.mil.
96k	Archerfish (SSN-678), underway, date and place unknown.	US Navy photo, courtesy of the Federation of American Scientists.
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.