USS Haddo (SSN-604)

USS "Haddo" (SSN-604), a "Thresher"-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the haddo, a pink salmon fish prevalent on the Pacific coast of the United States and Canada.

The contract to build her was awarded to New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, New Jersey on 3 March 1959 and her keel was laid down on 9 September 1960. She was launched on 18 August 1962 sponsored by Mrs. Henry M. Jackson, and commissioned on 16 December 1964, with Commander John G. Williams, Jr. in command.

After shakedown out of New London, Connecticut, in January 1965, "Haddo" arrived at her home port, Charleston, South Carolina, on 8 February and joined SubRon 4. She operated off the Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean Sea until departing Charleston on 7 July for the Mediterranean Sea. She participated in numerous exercises with ships of the Sixth Fleet and NATO countries before returning home 7 November. "Haddo" has continued this pattern of service, alternating operations out of home port in the Atlantic with Sixth Fleet deployments, through 1967.

"Haddo" was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 12 June 1991. Ex-"Haddo" entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington, and on 20 June 1992 ceased to exist.

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