USS SAILFISH SS 572 ex SSR 572

SS 572   SAILFISH   Bremerton   12 07 1994                                 ( Original  b & w negative in collection ) 

SS 572   SAILFISH  ex  SSR 572
FLAG : U.S.A.
TYPE :  SAILFISH - CLASS  ( Radar Picket submarine )
LAID DOWN : 08 December 1953
LAUNCHED  : 07 December 1955
COMMISSIONED : 14 April 1956 
DECOMMISSIONED : 29 September 1978

The SSR 572 SAILFISH was reclassified as a attack submarine SS 572 SAILFISH on 03 February 1961. She was decommissioned on 29 September 1978 and the next day 30 September 1978 she was struck from the Naval Register and disposed for a transfer but cancelled and remain at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility at Bremerton, Washington till May 2007 she was expended as a targetship and sunk by a Mark 48 ADCAP Torpedo fired by the USS TOPEKA  SSN 754.

SS 572   SAILFISH   Bremerton   12 07 1994                               ( Original  b & w negative in collection )