USS Hammerhead (SSN-663)

USS Hammerhead (SSN-663)
History
United States
Name	USS Hammerhead (SSN-663)
Namesake	The hammerhead shark
Ordered	28 May 1964
Builder	Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia
Laid down	29 November 1965
Launched	14 April 1967
Sponsored by	Mrs. O. Clark Fisher
Commissioned	28 June 1968
Decommissioned	5 April 1995
Stricken	5 April 1995
Honors and awards	Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award for U.S. Atlantic Fleet 1981
Fate	Scrapping via Ship and Submarine Recycling Program completed 22 November 1995
General characteristics
Class and type	Sturgeon-class attack submarine
Displacement	3,860 long tons (3,922 t) light 4,268 long tons (4,336 t) full 408 long tons (415 t) dead
Length	292 ft 3 in (89.08 m)
Beam	31 ft 8 in (9.65 m)
Draft	28 ft 8 in (8.74 m)
Installed power	15,000 shaft horsepower (11 megawatts)
Propulsion	One S5W nuclear reactor, two steam turbines, one screw
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) surfaced 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph) submerged
Test depth	1,300 ft (396 m)
Complement	109 (14 officers, 95 enlisted men
Sensors and processing systems	BPS-14/15 surface search radar BQQ-5 multi-function bow mounted sonar BQR-7 passive in submarines with BQQ-2 sonar BQS-12 active 7 sonar TB-16 or TB-23 towed array sonar
Electronic warfare & decoys	WLQ-4(V) WLR-4(V) WLR-9
Armament	4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes Mark 48 torpedoes UUM-44A SUBROC missiles UGM-84A/C Harpoon missiles Mark 57 deep-water mines Mark 60 CAPTOR mines Tomahawk Land Attack Missile

USS Hammerhead (SSN-663), a Sturgeon-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the hammerhead shark, a voracious fish found in warm seas, with a curious hammerlike head.