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The second SEAWOLF (SSN-575) was laid
down on 7 September 1953 by General Dynamics Corp. (Electric
Boat Co. Div. ), Groton, Conn.; launched on 21 July 1955;
sponsored by Mrs. W. Sterling Cole; and commissioned on 30
March 1957, Comdr. R. B. Laning in command.
SEAWOLF departed New London on 2
April for her shakedown cruise off Bermuda and returned on 8
May. Between 16 May and 5 August, she made two voyages to
Key West and participated in intensive training exercises.
On 3 September, she steamed across the North Atlantic to
participate in North Atlantic Treaty Organization exercises.
The submarine surfaced off Newport, R.I., on 25 September
after cruising 6,331 nonstop miles. The next day, President
Dwight D. Eisenhower embarked and was taken for a short
cruise onboard her.
Although fully armed, SEAWOLF, like
the first nuclear submarine NAUTILUS (SSN-571), was
primarily an experimental vessel. Decommissioned on 30 March
1987, SEAWOLF was stricken from the Navy Register the
following 10 July. The former submarine began the Navy’s
Nuclear-Powered Surface Ship and Submarine Recycling Program
on 1 October 1996 and completed it on 30 September 1997.
Upon completion, the ship ceased to exist as an entity. |
