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Sea Devil Reunion IV   ~  April 23-26, 2009  

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USS SEA DEVIL (SSN-664)

Keel laid down by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co., Newport News, VA, 12APR65;
Launched: 5OCT67; Sponsored by Mrs. Ignatius J. Galantin;
Commissioned: 30JAN69 with Cdr Richard A. Currier in command;
Decommissioned and struck from the Navy List 16OCT91;
Disposed of through SRP at PSNS.

Named for largest of all rays the nuclear powered submarine USS SEA DEVIL (SSN-664) was built by Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock Company and Commissioned January 30th, 1969. She had made numerous deployments mainly to the North Atlantic and to the Mediterranean. She was the first nuclear powered submarine to visit Morocco in 1976 and the first nuclear powered ship to visit Kalamata Greece in 1977.

SEA DEVIL had participated in various exercises including NATOs' "COMMON EFFORT" and "NORTHERN WEDDING" and a joint exercise with Great Britain.

SEA DEVIL awards had included Three Navy Unit Commendations, the BATTLE "E" and Two Commander 6th Fleet "HOOK EM" awards for excellence in ASW. She was also ComSubLant's nominee for the Arleigh Burke award.

In August of 1981 the SEA DEVIL left her home port in Norfolk and SubRon6 to become a unit of SubRon4 in Charleston South Carolina. In October of 1981 she entered Charleston Navy Ship Yard for a 20 month refueling overhaul and a complete weapon systems refit to carry the Tomahawk Cruise Missile. She was the first nuclear submarine to complete this overhaul 3 months early.

SEA DEVIL was decommissioned and struck from the Navy List 16 October 1991 and disposed of through SRP at PSNS.

Compiled by SUBNET from "UNITED STATES NAVAL SUBMARINE FORCE INFORMATION BOOK" -- J. Christley

 

- Working on the Photo Gallery -

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"The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional as to how they perceive the veterans of earlier wars were Treated and Appreciated by their nation."

-- George Washington

(Photo: Courtesy of 'The Saratogian')

"Lost Boat Flags" carried by active duty Sub School Students

  in the USSVI National Convention Parade 18 Sept., 2004

Saratoga Springs, NY 

                         

On Eternal Patrol

"There is a port of no return, where ships may ride at anchor for a little space.  And then some starless night the cable slips, leaving only an eddy at the mooring place.  Gulls veer no longer, Sailor rest your oar.  No tangled wreckage shall be washed ashore."

Lost Harbor - Leslie Nelson Jennings

USS Thresher

Lost 10 April 1963

 

 

 

USS Scorpion

Lost 22 May 1968




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