USS Dolphin (AGSS-555)
USS Dolphin | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Namesake | Dolphin |
| Ordered | 10 August 1960 |
| Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard |
| Laid down | 9 November 1962 |
| Launched | 8 June 1968 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Maggie Shinobu Inouye |
| Commissioned | 17 August 1968 |
| Decommissioned | 15 January 2007 |
| Out of service | 22 September 2006 |
| Stricken | 15 January 2007 |
| Status | Museum ship at the Maritime Museum of San Diego |
| Badge | |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Dolphin-class submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 46.3 m (151 ft 11 in) |
| Beam | 6 m (19 ft 8 in) |
| Draft | 4.8 m (15 ft 9 in) |
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| Endurance | 15 days |
| Test depth | 3,000 ft (910 m) (unclassified) |
| Capacity | 12 tons on external mounting pads, six port, six starboard, forward and aft of sail |
| Complement | 3 officers, 20 ratings, 4 scientists |
| Armament | Small arms. No internal torpedo tubes. An external tube could be mounted to be used for experiments. |
| Notes | fitted with a 20-ton keel section to be jettisoned by explosive bolts for surfacing under emergency conditions |
USS Dolphin (AGSS-555) was a United States Navy diesel-electric deep-diving research and development submarine. She was commissioned in 1968 and decommissioned in 2007. Her 38-year career was the longest in history for a US Navy submarine to that point. She was the Navy's last operational conventionally powered submarine.