&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Grayback;0857404.jpg) Grayback (LPSS-574), underway, c. 1968
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Grayback |
| Ordered | 10 March 1951 |
| Builder | Mare Island Naval Shipyard |
| Laid down | 1 July 1954 |
| Launched | 2 July 1957 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. John A. Moore |
| Commissioned | 7 March 1958, as SSG-574 |
| Decommissioned | 25 May 1964 |
| Recommissioned | 9 May 1969, as LPSS-574 |
| Decommissioned | 15 January 1984 |
| Stricken | 16 January 1984 |
| Homeport | Pearl Harbor |
| Motto | De Profundis Futurus |
| Fate | Sunk as a target near Subic Bay, 13 April 1986 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Grayback-class submarine |
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| Length | 273 ft (83 m) later extended to 317 ft 7 in (96.80 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 2 in (8.28 m) |
| Draft | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
| Propulsion | 3 Fairbanks-Morse Diesel engines, 2 Elliott electric motors |
| Speed | |
| Complement | 84 officers and men |
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USS Grayback (SS/SSG/APSS/LPSS-574), the lead ship of her class of submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the grayback.