USS Barb (SSN-596)
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USS Barb (SSN-596)
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| Name: | USS Barb |
| Ordered: | March 1959 |
| Builder: | Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi |
| Laid down: | 9 November 1959 |
| Launched: | 22 February 1962 |
| Commissioned: | 24 August 1963 |
| Decommissioned: | 20 December 1989 |
| Struck: | 20 December 1989 |
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| Fate: | Recycling via Ship-Submarine Recycling Program completed 14 March 1996 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Thresher/Permit-class submarine |
| Displacement: | 4,400 long tons (4,471 t) |
| Length: | 278 ft (85 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
| Draft: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | S5W PWR |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: | 130 officers and men |
| Armament: | 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
USS Barb (SSN-596), a Permit-class attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the barb, a kingfish of the Atlantic coast.
The contract to build her was awarded to the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and her keel was laid down on 9 November 1959. She was launched on 12 February 1962 sponsored by Mrs. Marjorie Fluckey, wife of Rear Admiral Eugene Bennett Fluckey, who earned the Medal of Honor as Commanding Officer of USS Barb (SS-220). The new Barb was commissioned on 24 August 1963, with Commander Charles D. Grojean in command.
Barb departed Pascagoula on 28 September for her shakedown cruise off the west coast. Sailing by way of the Panama Canal and Vallejo, California, she arrived in Puget Sound where she carried out a variety of trials between 30 October and 19 November. The submarine then concluded her shakedown training with a four-week, round-trip voyage to Hawaii. Upon her return to the United States West Coast on 17 December 1963, she entered the Mare Island Naval Shipyard for post-shakedown availability. Those repairs and modifications occupied her for nine months, carrying her well into 1964. On 1 July 1964, her home port was officially changed from Vallejo, California, to Pearl Harbor. Seven weeks later, Barb left the yard at Mare Island and began a somewhat circuitous voyage to her new base, traveling by way of Seattle, Washington.
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