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USS BLUEFISH was the 27th STURGEON - class attack submarine. Both decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on May 31, 1996, the USS BLUEFISH is since then berthed at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton, Wash., awaiting entry in the Navy's Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program Recycling there. The BLUEFISH was last homeported in Norfolk, Va.
| General Characteristics: | Awarded: July 15, 1966 |
| Keel Laid: March 13, 1968 | |
| Launched: January 10, 1970 | |
| Commissioned: January 8, 1971 | |
| Decommissioned: May 31, 1996 | |
| Builder: Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, CT. | |
| 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 | |
| Submerged: approx. 4,700 tons | |
| Speed: Surfaced: approx. 15 knots | |
| 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 |
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This section contains the names of sailors who served aboard USS BLUEFISH. It is no official listing but contains the names of sailors who submitted their information.
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