USS BERGALL was one of the STURGEON - class attack submarines and the second ship in the Navy to bear the name. Inactivated while still in commission on August 4, 1995, the BERGALL was formally decommissioned on June 6, 1996. Stricken from the Navy list on June 6, 1997, the BERGALL was disposed of through the Navy's Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton, Wash. Recycling of the submarine was finished on September 29, 1997.
| General Characteristics: | Awarded: March 9, 1965 |
| Keel Laid: April 16, 1966 |
| Launched: February 17, 1968 |
| Commissioned: June 13, 1969 |
| Decommissioned: June 6, 1996 |
| Builder: Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, Calif. |
| 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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