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U.S.S. HALIBUT
(SSN-587)Click to view crew list
USS HALIBUT (SSN-587) - a Skipjack-class submarine
In Commission 1960 to 1976SSN-587 Deployments - Major Events
Add a SSN-587 Shellback Initiation | Add a SSN-587 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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APR | 1957 | - | Keel Date: 11 APR 1957 | ||
JAN | 1959 | - | Launch Date: 9 JAN 1959 | ||
JAN | 1960 | - | Commissioned: 4 JAN 1960 | ||
JUN | 1971 | - | NOV | 1971 | West Pac |
JUN | 1976 | - | Decommissioned: 30 JUN 1976 |
SSN-587 General Specifications
Named for: The halibut
Complement: 9 Officers and 88 Enlisted
Displacement: 3655 tons
Length: 350 feet
Beam: 29 feet
Draft: 28 feet
Range: Unlimited distance
Final Disposition: Disposed of through the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program 9 September 1994
USS HALIBUT (SSN-587)
Halibut (SSG(N)-587) was launched by Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, 9 January
1959; sponsored by Mrs. Chet
Holifield, wife of Congressman Holifield of California ; and commissioned 4
January 1960, Lt. Comdr. Walter Dedrick in command.
Halibut had the distinction to be the first submarine in the world designed and built from the keel up
to launch guided missiles. Intended to carry the Regulus I missile, Halibut departed for her shakedown cruise 11 March. On
the
way to Australia 25 March sine 'became the first nuclear powered submarine to
successfully launch a guided missile. The submarine 'returned to Mare Island Shipyard 18 June 1960, and
after short training cruises departed 7 November for Pearl Harbor and active
service with
Pacific Fleet. During her first deployment she successfully launched her
seventh consecutive Regulus I missile during a major Southeast Asia Treaty Organization weapons
demonstration. Returning to Pearl Harbor 9 April 1961, Halibut began her second
deployment 1 May. During the months that followed she participated in several guided missile
launching exercises and underwent intensive training.
Halibut deployed for the third time to the Western Pacific in late 1961, establishing a pattern of
training and
readiness operations followed through 1964. On 4 May 1964 Halibut departed Pearl Harbor for
the last Reg-ulus
missile patrol to be made by a submarine in the Pacific. Then, from September through December, Halibut joined eight other
submarines in testing and evaluating the attack capabilities of the Permit Class
submarines.
In
February 1965 Halibut entered Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard for a major
overhaul, and on 15 August she was redesignated SS(N)-587. The nuclear attack submarine sailed from Pearl Harbor
6 September for the West Coast, arriving Keyport, Wash., the 20th. On 5 October
she departed
Keyport for Pearl Harbor and, after an 8-day stopover at Mare Island, Oalif.,
arrived 21 October. Halibut then began ASW operations in the area, continuing through 1966 and to date
in 1967 adding powerfully to the deterrent strength of the United States in the
Pacific.
[Note: The above USS HALIBUT (SSN-587) history may, or may not, contain text provided by crew members of the USS HALIBUT (SSN-587), or by other non-crew members, and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]