USS Batfish (SSN-681)
USS Batfish (SSN-681) at the end of March 1995 in the western Atlantic Ocean on her way to a six-month Mediterranean Sea deployment as part of the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) carrier battle group. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Batfish |
| Namesake | The batfish, the name of any of several fishes |
| Ordered | 25 June 1968 |
| Builder | General Dynamics Electric Boat |
| Laid down | 9 February 1970 |
| Launched | 9 October 1971 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Arthur R. Gralla |
| Commissioned | 1 September 1972 |
| Decommissioned | 17 March 1999 |
| Stricken | 17 March 1999 |
| Fate | Scrapping via Ship and Submarine Recycling Program completed 22 November 2002 |
| Badge | |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Sturgeon-class submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 302 ft 2 in (92.10 m) |
| Beam | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
| Draft | 28 ft 6 in (8.69 m) |
| Installed power | 15,000 shaft horsepower (11.2 megawatts) |
| Propulsion | One S5W nuclear reactor with S3G3 modified core, two steam turbines, one screw |
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| Test depth | 1,300 feet (400 meters) |
| Complement | 112 (14 officers, 98 enlisted men) |
| Armament | 4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
USS Batfish (SSN-681), was a nuclear-powered attack submarine of the United States Navy. She was the eleventh Sturgeon-class submarine launched. Her primary missions were anti-submarine warfare, intelligence gathering, and screening carrier battle groups. She was launched in 1971 and decommissioned in 1999.