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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Guardfish |
| Namesake | The guardfish, a long and voracious fish |
| Awarded | 9 June 1960 |
| Builder | New York Shipbuilding, Camden, New Jersey |
| Laid down | 28 February 1961 |
| Launched | 15 May 1965 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Kenneth E. BeLieu |
| Commissioned | 20 December 1966 |
| Decommissioned | 4 February 1992 |
| Stricken | 4 February 1992 |
| Fate | Recycled via Ship-Submarine Recycling Program, 1992 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Thresher/Permit-class submarine |
| Displacement | 3,700 long tons (3,759 t) |
| Length | 279 ft (85 m) |
| Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draft | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Propulsion | S5W PWR |
| Speed | over 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) submerged |
| Range | Limited only by food crew endurance |
| Test depth | 1,300 ft (400 m) |
| Complement | 99 officers and men |
| Armament | • 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
USS Guardfish (SSN-612), a Thresher-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the guardfish, a voracious green and silvery fish with elongated pike-like body and long narrow jaws.