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 0868514 | 418k | (On left) Mrs. Virginia Lipscomb looks on as her initials are inspected on the keel of her husband's namesake submarine, the Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685). | Photo from the Seventeen page PDF of the launching of the Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685), USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 1.02k | The launching of the Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685) on 4 June 1973 at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT. Note the construction of another submarine on the ways to the left. | USN photo # NPC 1157121 USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 1.50k | The Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685) slides down the launching ways at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT., 4 June 1973. | USN photo # NPC 1157123 USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 2.00k | Seventeen page PDF of the launching of the Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685). | USN photo USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 156k | Launch cachet of the Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685) on 4 June 1973. | Photo USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 1.50k | Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685) underway on the surface during sea trials, turning up 17.5 knots on 22 November 1974. | USN photo # NPC 1161683 USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 1.40k | Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685) underway on the surface during sea trials, turning up 17.5 knots on 22 November 1974. | USN photo USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 29k | Commemorative post mark on the occasion of the commissioning of the Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685), 21 December 1974, at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 1.02k | Twelve page Welcome Aboard PDF of the Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685). | USN photo USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 204k | Representative Larry P. McDonald, D-Georgia, visits the control room during his tour of the nuclear-power attack submarine Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685) on 18 October 1984. | Official USN photo # DN-SN-85-01566, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.& submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 113k | An aerial port bow view of the nuclear-powered attack submarine Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685) underway, 1 March 1985. | Official USN photo # DN-SC-86-00549, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
 | 49k | Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685) Toulon, France (tied next to the pier) November 1985. | Courtesy of MMC/SS Frank McGee. | |
 | 43k | Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685) Palma De Mallorca (anchored), November 1985. | Courtesy of MMC/SS Frank McGee. | |
 | 89k | Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685) returns to New London after a five-month deployment at sea. There is a harbour tug off her port side. Note the small sonar dome on the Liscomb's bow, the bitts and cleats that retract when at sea, and the bulge of a special sonar dome on the top sail. | USN photo by Jean Russell from The American Submarine, by Norman Polmar, submitted by Robert Hurst. | |
 | 95k | Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685) underway, date and place unknown. | USN photo. | |
 | 291k | "Sign of the times." March 1994 photo of Nuclear submarines at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard waiting in line for scrapping. Top row left to right are Ethan Allen (SSBN-608), Seawolf (SSN-575), Plunger (SSN-595), Shark (SSN-591), Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636), Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685) alongside Sperry (AS-12), with Triton (SSRN-586) across the pier from the Sperry . Bottom row, from left to right Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), Skipjack (SS-585), Snook (SSN-592), Henry Clay (SSBN-625), Lapon (SSN-661), Dace (SSN-607), Skate (SSN-578), Swordfish (SSN-579), Sargo (SSN-583), Seadragon (SSN-584). Across the pier are Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), and not in view, Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), George Washington (SSBN-598), Barb (SSN-596) & Sea Devil (SSN-664). There are so many submarines at PSNSY that the yard is running out of pier space. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 12k | Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), at top, George Bancroft (SSBN-643) in the middle and Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685) at the bottom,awaiting scrapping at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA. 2000. | Courtesy of US Navy. | |
 | 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. Caldwell Sr., James Franklin, USN (USNA 1958) | 21.12.1974 - 30.06.1976 First Date in Commission | |
| 02 | CDR. Wilkinson Jr., Robert Bailey, USN | 30.06.1976 - 15.07.1978 | |
| 03 | CDR. Robertson, Thomas James, USN (USNA 1963) :RADM | 15.07.1978 - 00.09.1982 | |
| 04 | CDR. Keegan, Lawrence Thomas, USN (USNA 1967) | 00.09.1982 - 00.02.1986 | |
| 05 | CDR. Oliver, Timothy Wallen, USN (USNA 1969) | 00.02.1986 - 09.12.1988 | |
| 06 | CDR. Davis, John Philip, USN (USNA 1968) :RADM | 09.12.1988 - 22.02.1989 | |
| 07 | CDR. Collins, Robert Samuel (Sam), USN (USNA 1970) | 22.02.1989 - 11.07.1990 Last Date in Commission | |
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