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USS Pintado (SSN-672), a short hull Sturgeon-class attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the pintado, a large mackerel-like fish, whose elongated spots suggested the Spanish language word meaning "painted."
USS Pintado (SS-387) was a Balao-class submarine commissioned in 1944 and struck in 1967. USS Pintado (SSN-672) was a Sturgeon -class submarine commissioned in 1971 and struck in 1998. List of ships with the same or similar names
USS Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685) was a significant modification of the Sturgeon design for an experimental propulsion system, and so was a one-ship class. USS Narwhal (SSN-671) was also identified as such during her construction, but later was admitted to have been a unique design with very little in common with the Sturgeon class
SSN-672 Pintado: SSN-673 Flying Fish: SSN-674 Trepang: SSN-675 Bluefish: SSN-676 Billfish: SSN-677 Drum: The sail is currently on display at U.S. Navy Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois: SSN-678 Archerfish: SSN-679 Silversides: SSN-680 William H. Bates: SSN-681 Batfish: SSN-682 Tunny: SSN-683 Parche: SSN-684 Cavalla
Gurnard operated in the Arctic Ocean under the polar ice cap from September to November 1984 in company with one of her sister ships, the attack submarine USS Pintado (SSN-672). On 12 November 1984 Gurnard and Pintado became the third pair of submarines to surface together at the North Pole.
USS Pargo (SSN-650) |Ship caption=USS Pargo (SSN-650) Ships of the United States Navy; Ships in current service; ... USS Pintado (SS-387/AGSS-387, SSN-672) USS ...
On her first war patrol, Pintado was the flagship of a wolfpack, commanded by Captain Leon N. Blair, which also included submarines USS Shark and Pilotfish.The attack group departed Pearl Harbor 16 May, touched at Midway 20 May – 21 May, and headed for waters west of the Marianas and south of Formosa.
He served as a nuclear submarine officer aboard the USS Pintado (SSN-672) out of Mare Island, California, and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, including deployment to the North Pole, where he conducted environmental research.