USS Gato (SSN-615)

The USS Gato (SSN -615 ) was a nuclear submarine of the Thresher / Permit class.

History

1960, the contract to build the Gato was awarded. End of 1961, the keel of the boat was placed at Electric Boat. As the lead ship of the class, the USS Thresher (SSN -593 ) went lost during the construction of Gato during testing, it was decided in SUBSAFE program to modify the design, which is why the construction took three and a half years between the launch in 1964 and the commissioning 1968 further three and a half years on record. The boat is named after a cat shark, which lives off the west coast of Mexico.

The Gato was involved in the November 15, 1969, shortly after her commissioning in a serious incident. The boat was operating at a depth of about 200 meters Fuß/60 in the Barents Sea, a few miles upstream of the mouth of the White Sea. In this case, the ship encountered a violent start with a Soviet submarine. The K-19, a boat to the hotel class, hit the Gato directly to the point at which the reactor was. During the American submarine suffered no serious damage too, the K-19 had to show up. The incident was first made on July 6, 1975 publicly announced by the New York Times.

On 25 April 1996, the Gato was decommissioned and broken in the Ship- Submarine Recycling Program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.

List of submarine classes of the United States Navy List of submarines of the United States Navy

Thresher class

Catshark Soviet submarine K-19 Hotel-class submarine Ship-Submarine Recycling Program

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