History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Plunger |
Ordered | 23 March 1959 |
Builder | Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California |
Laid down | 2 March 1960 |
Launched | 9 December 1961 |
Commissioned | 21 November 1962 |
Decommissioned | 2 February 1990 |
Stricken | 2 February 1990 |
Fate | Entered Ship-Submarine Recycling Program, 5 January 1995 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Thresher/Permit-class submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 278 ft 5 in (84.86 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
Propulsion | 1 S5W PWR |
Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)+ |
Complement | 100 officers and men |
Armament | 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
USS Plunger (SSN-595), a Permit-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named "plunger", meaning a diver or a daring gambler.
The contract to build her as a guided-missile submarine (SSGN) was awarded to Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 23 March 1959, but by the time her keel was laid down on 2 March 1960 she had been redesigned as an attack submarine (SSN). She was launched on 9 December 1961 (sponsored by Mrs. Clinton P. Anderson), and commissioned on 21 November 1962.