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US Navy · Submarines

USS Greenling SSN-614

Greenling II SSN-614
US Navy
(SS(N)-614, dp. 3732, 1. 292'3", b. 31'8", dr. 24' s. over 30 k.; cpl. 99, a. 4 21" tt.; cl. Thresher)

The second Greenling (SS(N)-614), an attack submarine, was launched by Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn., 4 April 1964, sponsored by Mrs. H. C. Bruton; and commissioned 3 November 1967, Comdr. Guy H. B. Schaffer in command.

Greenling was decommissioned on 18 April 1994 and was subsequently disposed through the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on 30 September 1994. Equipment from Greenling's control room was salvaged and used to construct a simulation of a submarine control room as an exhibit at the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, Washington.

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