USS Blueback (SS-581) – Wikipedia

The Blueback As a museum ship
Overview
Order	29. June 1956
Forbidgung	15. April 1957
Stacking	16. May 1959
1. Duty time
Commissioning	October 15, 1959
Outdoor position	1 October 1990
Whereabouts	Museumsschiff
Technical specifications
displacement	2645 tons immersed
Long	after-content-x4 66,9 m
Broad	8,8 m
Depth	8,5 m
crew	approx. 10 officers, 70 teams
drive	Diesel electrical, 1 wave
speed	approx. 20 knots
Arming	6 × 533-mm-Torpedorohre after-content-x4

The USS Blueback (SS-581) Was a submarine of the United States Navy and belonged to the Barbel class. It was in service from 1959 to 1990 and is now a museum ship.

SS-581 was commissioned in 1956 and placed on Kiel in 1957 at Ingall’s Shipbuilding. In 1959 the submarine ran off the stack and was names by Mrs. Kenmore M. McManes, the wife of an admiral Blueback Baptized, according to a form of the rainbow trout that lives in the Lake Crescent. The submarine was put into service in the same year.

After the test trips, the submarine was moved to the Pacific in June and stationed in San Diego. In the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, smaller problems have occurred after the first trips and first test shots. In 1959 the first deployment trip of the boat in the western Pacific followed, including the Blueback Yokosuka in Japan. After completing the trip, she took a large-scale U-hunting exercise with supervision of the then Chief of Naval Operations George Whelan Anderson, Jr. and together with the new aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) as well as USS Topeka (CLG-8) , USS Henry B. Wilson (DDG-7) and USS Preble (DLG-15) part. After further exercises, the Blueback in July 1962 to her first overhaul in Mare Island Nsy. There, among other things, the deep rudder was laid from the bow of the boat to the tower. After the overhaul, the boat was stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in early 1963.

From there the Blueback In April to Australia, Subic Bay and Japan. In 1964 the ship had to go to the dry dock after a stuck crane damaged the fuselage, later in the year she drove to the region around Wake twice to the finish ship for the Uum-44 Subroc, then as a target ship for the evaluation of the Thresher class to serve. In 1965 the Blueback Back to Far East, where it was involved in missions to support the Vietnam War Fleet for the first time. Towards the end of the year there was an overhaul in the PUGET Sound Naval Shipyard, which lasted until September 1966. In 1967 there was a further journey as support as part of the Vietnam War. The boat was not staying in Vietnamese waters. 1968 was that Blueback For special operations in the Far East. In 1969/1970 the ship was back in the PUGET SOUND NSY.

Another war of war followed in April 1970, after which the ship was on maintenance in the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. Also in 1971 it was Blueback in Vietnamese waters. From March 1972, she was overhauled in Pearl Harbor Nsy for a year, and it was not until mid -1973 she moved back to the Far East. In 1975 the submarine took part in the maneuver Rimpac for the first time, followed in 1976 a further overhaul in Pearl Harbor Nsy. In 1977 it was used again as part of Rimpac and then moved back to San Diego. From there, the boat took part in the Manöver Unitas. In 1978 the Blueback For the now eighth time in the West Pacific, where she took part in multinational exercises. In 1980 there was another such trip.

After ten more years in the service of the US Navy, the Blueback on October 1, 1990. It was the last conventionally driven submarine in the US Navy fleet. Shortly before, some scenes of the film hunt for Red October were shot on the boat, but these were not used in the film. Until the beginning of 1994 she was in the reserve fleet in Bremerton and was then donated to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland. There is the Blueback Today on the banks of the Willamette River and can be visited as a museum ship.