Everything about Uss Tinosa Ssn-606 totally explained
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| Career |
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Ordered:
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17 December 1958 |
Laid down:
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24 November 1959 |
Launched:
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9 December 1961 |
Commissioned:
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17 October 1964 |
Decommissioned:
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15 January 1992 |
Fate:
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submarine recycling |
Stricken:
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15 January 1992 |
| General characteristics |
Displacement:
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3700 tons surfaced, 4300 tons submerged |
Length:
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278 feet |
Beam:
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31 feet 7 inches |
Draft:
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28 feet 5 inches |
Propulsion:
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S5W reactor |
Speed:
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15+ knots surfaced, 25+ knots submerged |
Range:
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Complement:
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96 officers and men |
Armament:
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4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes; SUBROC |
USS Tinosa (SSN-606), a
Permit-class submarine, was the second ship of the
United States Navy to be named for the
tinosa, a poisonous, black, tropical fish.
History
The contract to build her was awarded to
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in
Kittery, Maine on
17 December 1958 and her keel was laid down on
24 November 1959. She was
launched on
9 December 1961 sponsored by Mrs. Samuel B. Stratton, the wife of
Congressman Samuel B. Stratton of
New York, and
commissioned on
17 October 1964, with Commander Robert B. Brumsted in command.
Following shakedown out of
New London, Connecticut, the
submarine underwent availability at her builder's yard from April to June 1966 before making a cruise to
Faslane,
Scotland, and the
Caribbean Sea. After an overhaul which lasted from March through June 1967, the ship provided services for the Naval Underwater Sound Laboratory at New London through the first three months of 1968. During this tour,
Tinosa was based briefly at
Port Everglades, Florida, as well as at New London and visited
Bermuda in the course of her operations. At the end of this experimental and test duty,
Tinosa began local operations out of New London.
Tinosa continued to work off the eastern seaboard and in the Caribbean into 1969. During her major overhaul in the spring of that year, she received the
SUBSAFE submarine safety improvements designed in the wake of the tragic loss of submarine
Thresher (SSN-593) in April 1963.
Following the completion of this yard period,
Tinosa resumed active operations off the eastern seaboard and into the familiar waters of the
Caribbean Sea and continued the routine into the middle of 1971. In July, she crossed the Atlantic for visits to ports in northern
Europe and for deployment in the
Mediterranean Sea with the
Sixth Fleet. After operating out of
Sardinia and
Holy Loch during this period, she returned home in December to conduct tests in conjunction with a project sponsored by the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Tinosa worked out of New London from
1 February 1973 until the end of March, operating with submarines and surface craft on exercises and maneuvers. After a three-day visit to the
United States Naval Academy in late April, where she served in a familiarization program for midshipmen,
Tinosa underwent a tender availability alongside
Fulton (AS-11) at New London. In ensuing months, the submarine was twice deployed to
Bermuda and operated off
Andros Island before participating in joint
United States-
Canadian antisubmarine warfare exercises in December off the
Florida coast.
After being dry-docked in
Waterford (ARD-5) at New London from January to March of 1974,
Tinosa departed her home port on
19 May, bound for the Mediterranean, and conducted her second deployment with the
Sixth Fleet through the summer months. She visited
Bizerte from
24 June to
1 July and was the first nuclear powered submarine to visit
Tunisia.
Returning to New London on
16 November, the ship operated locally out of her homeport into late February 1975. Subsequently operating in the
Narragansett Bay area into the spring of that year,
Tinosa departed New London on
23 July, bound for
Charleston, South Carolina. She later shifted south to operate off the
Florida coast. The ship underwent a major overhaul at the
Ingalls Shipbuilding yard at
Pascagoula, Mississippi, from late 1975 to
12 December 1977. She then resumed operations with the Atlantic Fleet commencing with two months of weapons system testing in the Caribbean from
13 February to
20 May 1978. This was followed by a combined exercise with units of the
Royal Canadian Navy off
Florida in mid-April. Most of the summer was spent in preparing for
Tinosa’s forthcoming deployment to the
Mediterranean Sea. On
13 September, she departed New London for five months of operations with the Sixth Fleet. At the end of 1978, the nuclear attack submarine was in upkeep in
La Maddalena,
Sardinia, following operations with a
NATO task force composed of
United States,
British,
Italian, and
Turkish naval units.
Tinosa was deactivated while still in commission on
15 July 1991, then decommissioned and stricken from the
Naval Vessel Register on
15 January 1992. ex-
Tinosa entered the Nuclear Powered
Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in
Bremerton, Washington, on
15 July 1991 and on
26 June 1992 ceased to exist.
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