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USS Pollack (SSN 603)

- decommissioned -

One of the PERMIT - class nuclear-powered attack submarines, the USS POLLACK was the second ship in the Navy to bear the name of the fish. Both decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on March 1, 1989, the USS POLLACK later entered the Navy's Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Wash. Recycling was completed on February 17, 1995.

General Characteristics:Awarded: March 3, 1959
Keel laid: March 14, 1960
Launched: March 17, 1962
Commissioned: May 26, 1964
Decommissioned: March 1, 1989
Builder: New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J.
Propulsion system: one S5W2 nuclear reactor
Propellers: one
Length: 278.5 feet (84.9 meters)
Beam: 32.15 feet (9.8 meters)
Draft: 28.9 feet (8.8 meters)
Displacement: Surfaced: approx. 3,600 tons     Submerged: approx. 4,300 tons
Speed: Surfaced: approx. 20 knots     Submerged: approx. 30 knots
Armament: four 533 mm torpedo tubes for SUBROC, Mk-48 torpedoes, Harpoon and Tomahawk missiles
Crew: 12 Officers, 91 Enlisted


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Crew List:

This section contains the names of sailors who served aboard USS POLLACK. It is no official listing but contains the names of sailors who submitted their information.


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Accidents aboard USS POLLACK:

DateWhereEvents
August 25, 1976eastern channel of the Tsushima Strait
USS POLLACK snags the nets of Japanese fishing boats. Two boats cut away and abandon their nets. The POLLACK suffers no major damage and there is no known damage to the fishing boats.


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