USS Growler (SSG-577)

3650 tons submerged Standard - 3515

96.8 to 101.8 m

8.3 - 9-1 m

5.8 m

About 10 officers, 78 teams

Diesel-electric, 2 shafts

15 knots

Regulus - starter, 8, 6 torpedo tubes later

The USS Growler (SSG -577 ) was a submarine with cruise missiles of the United States Navy and was a member of the Grayback class.

History

The boat was built in 1954 given as a hunting submarine commissioned Shipyard was the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. 1955, was placed on Kiel. 1956 decided the Navy Growler as a support for cruise missiles finish and let the bug accordingly modify. 1958 ran the ship from the stack and has been put into service in the same year. From summer 1958, the Growler conducted testing and training rides.

1959 reached the submarine Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, his home port. In 1960, the Growler their first patrol as part of the policy of nuclear deterrence in the Far East coast of the Soviet Union. For this they had four SSM -N -8A Regulus on board. By the end of 1963, followed by eight more such trips. In 1964, the Growler in Iceland Mare Naval Shipyard was decommissioned because the Polaris boats in Classes George Washington, Ethan Allen and Lafayette took over their task. However, it was mothballed in the reserve fleet.

After the sister ship of the Growler, which was founded in 1967 converted to a transport submarine USS Grayback (SSG -574 ), the Growler should be modernized, cost overruns of Grayback could but give up these plans the Navy. Instead, the Growler to 1980 remained mothballed until it was finally removed from the Naval Vessel Register and should be sunk as a target ship.

Instead, however, the Navy decided in 1988 to get the Growler and donated them to the Intrepid Sea- Air-Space Museum. As a museum ship the Growler before New York City can be visited.