One of the STURGEON - class attack submarines, the USS SILVERSIDES was the second ship in the Navy to bear the name. Both decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on July 21, 1994, the USS SILVERSIDES entered the Navy's Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program Recycling at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Wa., on March 28, 2001. Recycling of the submarine was finished on October 1, 2001.
| General Characteristics: | Awarded: June 25, 1968 |
| Keel Laid: October 13, 1969 |
| Launched: June 4, 1971 |
| Commissioned: May 5, 1972 |
| Decommissioned: July 21, 1994 |
| Builder: Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, CT. |
| Propulsion system: one S5W2 nuclear reactor |
| Propellers: one |
| Length: 302 feet (91.5 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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