USS SUNFISH was the seventh STURGEON - class fast attack submarine and the second ship in the Navy to bear the name. Both decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on March 31, 1997, the SUNFISH subsequently entered the Navy's Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Wash. Recycling of the submarine was finished on October 31, 1997.
| General Characteristics: | Awarded: March 26, 1963 |
| Keel Laid: January 15, 1965 |
| Launched: October 14, 1966 |
| Commissioned: March 15, 1969 |
| Decommissioned: March 31, 1997 |
| Builder: General Dynamics Corp., Quincy, MA. |
| Propulsion system: one S5W2 nuclear reactor |
| Propellers: one |
| Length: 292 feet (89 meters) |
| Beam: 31.7 feet (9.65 meters) |
| Draft: 29.2 feet (8.9 meters) |
| Displacement: Surfaced: approx. 4,250 tons |
| Displacement: Submerged: approx. 4,700 tons |
| Speed: Surfaced: approx. 15 knots |
| Speed: Submerged: approx. 30 knots |
| Armament: four 533 mm torpedo tubes for Mk-48 torpedoes, Harpoon, Tomahawk, and SUBROC missiles, ability to lay mines |
| Crew: 12 Officers, 95 Enlisted |
General Characteristics 
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