USS Jack (SSN-605)

USS Jack (SSN-605)

USS|Jack|SSN-605, a "Permit"-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the jack, any young pike, green pike or pickerel, or large California rockfish.

The contract to build her was awarded to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine on 13 March 1959 and her keel was laid down on 16 September 1960. She was launched on 24 April 1963 (sponsored by Mrs. Grace Groves, the wife of Lieutenant General Leslie R. Groves, head of the Manhattan Project) and commissioned on 31 March 1967, with Commander Louis T. Urbanczyk, Jr., in command.

"Jack" was a variation on the "Permit" class, convert|20|ft|m longer than her sisters and using an experimental direct-drive plant with counter-rotating propellers on a single shaft.

"Jack" was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 11 July 1990. Ex-"Jack" entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington, and on 30 June 1992 ceased to exist.

See also

The USS Jack Web page at [http://uss-jack.org] for more information

References


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