USS Pollack (SSN-603)
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| Career | 
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| Ordered: | 3 March 1959 |
| Laid down: | 14 March 1960 |
| Launched: | 17 March 1962 |
| Commissioned: | 26 May 1964 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 March 1989 |
| Fate: | submarine recycling |
| Stricken: | 1 March 1989 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3750 tons |
| Length: | 278 feet 5 inches |
| Beam: | 31 feet 7 inches |
| Draft: | 25 feet 2 inches |
| Propulsion: | S5W reactor |
| Speed: | 20+ knots |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 107 officers and men |
| Armament: | four 21-inch torpedo tubes; SUBROC |
USS Pollack (SSN-603), a Permit-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the pollack, a food fish resembling the true cod, but with the lower jaw projecting and without the barbel.
The contract to build Pollack was awarded to New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, New Jersey on 3 March 1959 and her keel was laid down on 14 March 1960. She was launched on 17 March 1962 sponsored by Mrs. John Pastore, and commissioned on 26 May 1964, with Commander Harvey E. Lyon in command.
Pollack reported to Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet for duty, and became a unit of Submarine Squadron 4, homeported in Charleston, South Carolina. After shakedown in the Caribbean Sea, she underwent a six-month evaluation as an antisubmarine warfare weapon.
Most of 1965 was spent at sea evaluating new ASW tactics, participating in a destroyer versus submarine evaluation, and practicing an anti-shipping mission. Also during 1965 Pollack earned the Navy Unit Commendation.
During 1966, Pollack was evaluated in coordinated ASW operations. She spent most of 1967 at sea, making various weapons tests. On 1 March 1968, Pollack's homeport was changed to Norfolk, Virginia, and she became a unit of Submarine Squadron 10, the first all-nuclear attack submarine squadron in the Navy. Pollack remained with the Atlantic Fleet into 1970.
- 19 years of history go here.
Pollack was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 March 1989 . Ex-Pollack entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington, on 9 February 1993 and on 17 February 1995 ceased to exist.
See USS Pollack for other ships of the same name.
References
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. and from Blind Man's Bluff.