USS Gurnard (SSN-662)
USS Gurnard (SSN-662), a Sturgeon-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the gurnard, a trigloid fish having three pectoral rays, a food fish of the genus Trigla. The contract to build her was awarded to Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 24 October 1963 and her keel was laid down on 22 December 1964. She was launched on 20 May 1967 sponsored by Mrs. George P. Miller, and commissioned on 6 December 1968, with Commander William S. Cole, Jr. in command.
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Gurnard was decommissioned on 28 April 1995 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 28 April 1995. Ex-Gurnard entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington, and on 15 October 1997 ceased to exist.
See USS Gurnard for other ships of the same name.
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Based on data from the Naval Vessel Register
