USS Grayling (SSN-646)
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| Career |  |
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| Awarded: | 5 September 1962 |
| Laid down: | 12 May 1964 |
| Launched: | 22 June 1967 |
| Commissioned: | 11 October 1969 |
| Fate: | submarine recycling |
| Stricken: | 18 July 1997 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3956 tons light, 4252 tons full, 296 tons dead |
| Length: | 88 meters (289 feet) |
| Beam: | 9.7 meters (32 feet) |
| Draft: | 8.8 meters (29 feet) |
| Speed: | 16 knots |
| Complement: | 14 officers, 95 men |
| Armament: | 4 x 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
USS Grayling (SSN-646), a Sturgeon-class submarine, was the fifth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the grayling, a fresh-water game fish closely related to the trout.
Her keel was laid down at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on 12 May 1964. She was launched on 22 June 1967 sponsored by Miss Lori Brinker, daughter of Lieutenant Commander Robert Brinker, who commanded Grayling (SS-209) when she was lost in September 1943. Grayling (SSN-646) was commissioned on 11 October 1969.
- 23½ years of history go here
On 20 March 1993, Grayling collided with K-407 Novomoskovsk, a Delfin-class ballistic missile submarine (NATO reporting name "Delta-IV") commanded by Captain First Rank Andrei Bulgarkov.
In 1994 the Sandlance, moored in front of the Grayling in Charleston, almost sank next to the pier due to flooding in engineroom lower level (ERLL) when a main seawater hull valve was being removed for maintenance. The plates, called blanks, which are placed over the hull penentrations by divers were place over the wrong main seawater opennings. The flooding was stopped, but not before most of ERLL was flooded.
Reports that Grayling had to be "written off" after this collision are exaggerated; in June 1996, Grayling took part in Exercise TAPON 96, an allied exercise held in the Alboran Sea, Gulf of Cadiz, and the eastern Atlantic Ocean, along with destroyer USS Conolly (DD-979), the Spanish aircraft carrier SPS Principe de Austurias (R-11), Spanish frigates SPS Baleares (F-71), SPS Santa Maria (F-81), SPS Numancia (F-83), the Spanish submarine SPS Delfin (S-61), and the Greek destroyer HS Formion (D-220).
Grayling was deactivated on 1 March 1997, placed in commission in reserve on 8 March as she entered the Ship and Submarine Recycling Program, decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 18 July 1997, and ceased to exist on 31 March 1998.
[edit] See also
See USS Grayling for other ships of the same name.
[edit] References
This article includes information collected from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
| Sturgeon-class submarine |
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Short Hull Sturgeon | Whale | Tautog | Grayling | Pogy | Aspro | Sunfish | Pargo | Queenfish | Puffer | Ray | Sand Lance | Lapon | Gurnard | Hammerhead | Sea Devil | Guitarro | Hawkbill | Bergall | Spadefish | Seahorse | Finback | Pintado | Flying Fish | Trepang | Bluefish | Billfish | Drum |
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Long Hull Archerfish | Silversides | William H. Bates | Batfish | Tunny | Parche | Cavalla | L. Mendel Rivers | Richard B. Russell |
| List of submarines of the United States Navy List of submarine classes of the United States Navy |
