U.S.S. Seawolf
SSN-575
1960
(Quadrant)
- Class: Seawolf - 1 nuclear-propelled attack submarine of 1956
- Displacement: 3,260 tons standard / 4,110 tons submerged
- Dimensions: 338' x 28' x 23'
- Machinery: 1 S2G sodium-cooled nuclear reactor; steam turbines; 15,000 shp; 2 shafts = 23 knots surfaced / 19 knots submerged
- Torpedo Tubes: 6-21" bow
- Complement: 101
- Builder: General Dynamics Corp. Electric Boat Co. Div., Groton, CT
- Keel Laid: 7 Sep 1953
- Launched: 21 Jul 1955
- Commissioned: 30 Mar 1957
- Decommissioned: 30 Mar 1987
- Notes: The second U.S.Navy nuclear submarine, built to test an alternate reactor type. The experimental sodium-cooled reactor was unsatisfactory and was replaced by a standard pressurized water-cooled reactor during overhaul, 1958-60.
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