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USS Hammerhead (SSN-663)
| Career | 
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|---|---|
| Ordered: | 28 May 1964 |
| Laid down: | 29 November 1965 |
| Launched: | 14 April 1967 |
| Commissioned: | 28 June 1968 |
| Decommissioned: | 5 April 1995 |
| Fate: | submarine recycling |
| Stricken: | 5 April 1995 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3860 tons light, 4268 tons full, 408 tons dead |
| Length: | 89.1 m (292.25 ft) |
| Beam: | 9.7 m (31.7 ft) |
| Draft: | 8.7 m (28.7 ft) |
| Propulsion: | S5W reactor, one propeller, 15,000 shp (11 MW) |
| Speed: | 15 kt surface, 25 kt submerged (28, 46 km/h) |
| Depth Limit: | 400 m (1300 feet) |
| Complement: | 14 officers, 95 men |
| Armament: | four 21" torpedo tubes amidships aft of bow, MK 48 Torpedoes, UUM-44A SUBROC, UGM-84A/C Harpoon, MK 57 deep water mines, MK 60 CAPTOR mines |
| Combat Sensors: | Radar, BPS-14/15 surface search, Sonars, BQQ-5 multi-function bow mounted, BQR-7 passive in submarines with BQQ-2, BQS-12 active 7, TB-16 or TB-23 towed array, EW Systems, WLQ-4(V), WLR-4(V), WLR-9 |
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USS Hammerhead (SSN-663), a Sturgeon-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the hammerhead shark, a voracious fish found in warm seas, with a curious hammerlike head. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 28 May 1964 and her keel was laid down on 29 November 1965. She was launched on 14 April 1967 sponsored by Mrs. O. Clark Fisher, and commissioned on 28 June 1968, with Commander E. Frederick Murphy, Jr., in command.
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Hammerhead was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 5 April 1995. Ex-Hammerhead entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington, and on 22 November 1995 ceased to exist.
See USS Hammerhead for other ships of the same name.
References
Based on data from the Naval Vessel Register
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