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USS Growler (SSG-577) was an early attempt by the U.S. Navy to field a cruise missile submarine that would provide a nuclear deterrent using its second series of cruise missiles. Built to deliver the Regulus I cruise missile , Growler was the second and final submarine of the Grayback class , fourth boat of the United States Navy to be named ...
USS Growler (SS-215), a Gato-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy named for the growler. Construction and commissioning.
At the same time as Squadron 15 began working up, Squadron 1 began a draw down - Grayback and Growler, having completed their final patrols in late 1963, were withdrawn to California in May 1964; Tunny and Barbero completed their final patrols in March and April 1964, while on 7 May Halibut sailed from Pearl Harbor on the last Regulus missile ...
Commissioned in 1958, the USS Growler patrolled seas off the coast of Russia during the Cold War. I toured the only nuclear missile submarine in the US open to the public. Take a look inside.
USS Growler, a Grayback-class submarine that carried nuclear Regulus missiles, was towed to the museum in late 1988 [59] and opened to the public the next May. [57] [60] USS Edson, a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer that was the last all-gun destroyer in the United States Navy, [61] was displayed at the Intrepid Museum starting in July 1989. [62]
USS Growler (1812 sloop), a sloop acquired in 1812 that the British captured in 1813 and renamed HMS Chubb. The United States recaptured her in 1814 and sold her in 1815. USS Growler (SS-215), a submarine commissioned in 1942 and sunk in 1944; USS Growler (SSG-577), a cruise missile submarine in commission from 1958 to 1964
Raised, repaired and re-commissioned as USS Sailfish on 15 May 1940. ... USS Growler (SSG-577) - Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, New York, NY;
They were joined in 1958 by two purpose-built Regulus submarines, USS Grayback [8] and USS Growler, [9] and, later, by the nuclear-powered USS Halibut. [10] Halibut , with its extremely large internal hangar could carry five missiles and was intended to be the prototype of a whole new class of cruise missile firing SSG-N submarines.