USS Grayling (SSN-646)
The USS Grayling ( SSN -646 ) was a nuclear submarine in the service of the United States Navy and was a member of the Sturgeon class.
History
Construction
The Grayling in 1962 commissioned and laid in May 1964 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kiel. After a construction period of about three years, the boat was launched. The commissioning took place in 1969.
Collision
On 20 March 1993, the Grayling collided with a Russian submarine, the K- 407, the Delta -IV class. Both submarines were heavily damaged, but could return to their home port under its own power.
The Grayling was repaired in July 1996 and took part in a NATO exercise in the eastern Atlantic and the western Mediterranean. On 1 March 1997, the ship was assigned to the reserve fleet, on July 18, finally followed by the decommissioning. Until 1998, Grayling was canceled in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
Short torso USS Sturgeon | USS Whale | USS Tautog | USS Grayling | USS Pogy | USS Aspro | USS Sunfish | USS Pargo | USS Queenfish | USS buffer | USS Ray | USS Sand Lance | USS Lapon | USS Gurnard | USS Hammerhead | USS Sea Devil | USS Guitarro | USS Hawkbill | USS BERGALL | USS Spade Fish | USS Seahorse | USS Finback | USS Pintado | USS Flying Fish | USS trepang | USS Bluefish | USS Billfish | USS Drum
Long Hull USS Archerfish | USS Silversides | USS William H. Bates | USS Batfish | USS Tunny | USS Parche | USS Cavalla | USS L. Mendel Rivers | USS Richard B. Russell
List of submarine classes of the United States Navy List of submarines of the United States Navy
- Sturgeon - class
- International Seezwischenfall