USS Pogy (SSN-647)
USS Pogy (SSN-647)
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| Name: | USS Pogy (SSN-647) |
| Namesake: | The pogy |
| Awarded: | 23 March 1963 |
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| Laid down: | 5 May 1964 |
| Launched: | 3 June 1967 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. George Wales |
| Commissioned: | 15 May 1971 |
| Decommissioned: | 11 June 1999 |
| Struck: | 11 June 1999 |
| Homeport: | Final Homeport San Diego, CA |
| Motto: | No Ka Oi |
| Honors and awards: |
Various Unit Commendations, Expeditionary and Battle Efficiency Awards |
| Fate: | Scrapping via Ship and Submarine Recycling Program completed 12 April 2000 |
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| Class and type: | Sturgeon-class submarine |
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| Length: | 292 ft (89 m) |
| Beam: | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draft: | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Installed power: | 15,000 shaft horsepower (11.2 megawatts) |
| Propulsion: | One S5W nuclear reactor, two steam turbines, one screw |
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| Test depth: | 1,300 ft (396 m) |
| Complement: | 14 officers, 95 men |
| Armament: |
4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes Mark 48 torpedoes UGM-84A/C Harpoon missiles Mark 60 CAPTOR mines Mark 61 mines Mark 67 Submarine Launched Mobile Mines Various small arms and grenade launchers |
4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes Mark 48 torpedoes
UGM-84A/C Harpoon missiles
Mark 60 CAPTOR mines
Mark 61 mines
Mark 67 Submarine Launched Mobile Mines
USS Pogy (SSN-647), a Sturgeon-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the pogy, or menhaden.
The contract to build Pogy was awarded on 23 March 1963, and her keel was laid down on 5 May 1964 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, New Jersey, on 5 May 1964. She was launched on 3 June 1967, under the sponsorship of Mrs. George Wales. On 5 June 1967, the contract for her construction was canceled, and she was towed to the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in an incomplete state and laid up.
On 7 December 1967, the contract for construction of Pogy was reassigned to Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation of Pascagoula, Mississippi, and the incomplete submarine was towed to that shipyard on 8 January 1968 for completion. Seven days underway, from Philadelphia to Pascagoula the tow line broke and Pogy was adrift. Pogy was commissioned on 15 May 1971.
Pogy put to sea on 22 April 1975 for local operations. On 27 April 1975, about 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) off the coast of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands, her lookout sighted a capsized 15-foot (4.6 meters) sailboat drifting out to sea, and the crew quickly rescued the boat's owner. He had been in the water for about an hour, and his only injuries were scrapes and bruises incurred while being hoisted up the rough side of the submarine. The same day, Pogy conducted SINKEX 1-75, a test of a warshot Mark 48 torpedo against a target submarine. She intercepted the decommissioned hulk of submarine USS Carbonero (SS-337) drifting on the surface and carrying a noisemaker for the torpedo to home on acoustically. Pogy verified positions using her periscope, then dived to about 200 feet (61 meters) to shoot the torpedo. Interior Communications Electrician IC1(SS) Joseph J. Varese, who had earned his Submarine Warfare insignia on Carbonero, and was now leading petty officer of Pogy's Interior Communications Division, was given the honor of throwing the firing switch to shoot the torpedo. A few minutes later, Pogy transmitted the traditional message: "SIGHTED SUBMARINE SANK SAME".
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