USS Blueback (SS-581)

Career
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Awarded:	29 June 1956
Laid down:	15 April 1957
Launched:	16 May 1959
Commissioned:	15 October 1959
Fate:	Donated to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
Stricken:	30 October 1990
General Characteristics
Displacement:	1744 tons light, 2146 tons full, 402 tons dead
Length:	66.7 meters (219 feet) overall, 66.4 meters (218 feet) waterline
Beam:	8.8 meters (29 feet)
Draft:	8.5 meters (28 feet)
Depth:	712 feet operating, 1050 feet collapse
Speed:	15 knots surfaced, 21 knots submerged
Endurance:	$frac12;hour at full speed, 102 hours at 3 knots
Complement:	8 officers, 69 men
Armament:	six 21-inch bow torpedo tubes, 18 torpedoes

USS Blueback (SS-581), a Barbel-class submarine, was the second submarine of the United States Navy to be named for a type of salmon. Her keel was laid down by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation of Pascagoula, Mississippi on 15 April 1957. She was launched on 16 May 1959 sponsored by Mrs. Kenmore McManes, wife of Rear Admiral McManes, and commissioned on 15 October 1959, the last non-nuclear submarine to join the United States Navy.

31 years of operational history goes here.

Blueback was decommissioned on 1 October 1990 and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet in Bremerton, Washington. She was struck from the Naval Register on 30 October 1990. In February 1994 the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry towed her to Portland, Oregon, where she became part of the museum.

See USS Blueback for other ships of the same name.

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