USS Spadefish (SSN-668)
USS Spadefish (SSN-668) on her sea trials off Virginia in 1969. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS Spadefish |
| Namesake | The spadefish |
| Ordered | 9 March 1965 |
| Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia |
| Laid down | 21 December 1966 |
| Launched | 15 May 1968 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Charles T. Booth |
| Commissioned | 14 August 1969 |
| Decommissioned | 11 April 1997 |
| Stricken | 11 April 1997 |
| Homeport | Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia |
| Motto | UBI ACTIO EST (Where The Action Is) |
| Fate | Scrapping via Ship and Submarine Recycling Program begun 1 October 1996, completed 24 October 1997 |
| Badge | |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Sturgeon-class attack submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 292 ft 3 in (89.08 m) |
| Beam | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
| Draft | 28 ft 8 in (8.74 m) |
| Installed power | 15,000 shaft horsepower (11.2 megawatts) |
| Propulsion | One S5W nuclear reactor, two steam turbines, one screwctor |
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| Test depth | 1,300 feet (400 meters) |
| Complement | 109 (14 officers, 95 enlisted men) |
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USS Spadefish (SSN-668), a Sturgeon-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the spadefish, a spiny-finned fish found in coastal waters of the western Atlantic from Cuba to Cape Cod.