USS Pintado (SSN-672)
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USS Pintado (SSN-672) off San Diego, California, on 28 March 1977 with the Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle DSRV-1 Mystic mounted behind her sail.
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| Name: | USS Pintado (SSN-672) |
| Namesake: | The Pintado, |
| Ordered: | 29 December 1965 |
| Builder: | Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California |
| Laid down: | 27 October 1967 |
| Launched: | 16 August 1969 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Bernard A. Clarey |
| Commissioned: | 11 September 1971 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 February 1998 |
| Struck: | 26 February 1998 |
| Identification: | Hull symbol:SSN-672 |
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| Honors and awards: |
Navy Unit Commendation 1981 |
| Fate: | Scrapping via Ship and Submarine Recycling Program completed 27 October 1998 |
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| Class and type: | Sturgeon-class attack submarine |
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| Length: | 292 ft 3 in (89.08 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
| Draft: | 28 ft 8 in (8.74 m) |
| Installed power: | 15,000 shp (11,000 kW) |
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| Test depth: | 1,300 feet (396 meters) |
| Complement: | 109 (14 officers, 95 enlisted personnel ) |
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USS Pintado (SSN-672), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine, was the First ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Pintado
The contract to build Pintado was awarded to Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California, on 29 December 1965 and her keel was laid down there on 27 October 1967. She was launched on 16 August 1969, sponsored by Mrs. Bernard A. Clarey, the wife of the Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Bernard A. "Chick" Clarey (1912–1996), and commissioned on 11 September 1971 with Commander William Holland, Jr., in command.
Pintado was assigned San Diego, California, as her home port. She commenced her first operational deployment to the United States Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific in late October 1972, returning to San Diego in April 1973. Pintado conducted her second operational deployment from March to October 1974. After returning to San Diego, Pintado became the first submarine to successfully launch the Harpoon missile.
In May 1974 Pintado collided with a Soviet Navy YANKEE class ballistic missile submarine in the approaches to the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky naval base on the Soviet Union's Kamchatka Peninsula. The collision smashed much of Pintado's sonar sphere, jammed one of her a starboard-side torpedo hatches shut, and moderately damaging one of her diving planes. The Soviet submarine surfaced immediately, but the extent of damage to her was not known. Pintado, meanwhile, remained submerged and departed the area at top speed. She proceeded to Guam, where she entered drydock for repairs that lasted seven weeks.
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