>From the “Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships,” 

(1970) Vol. 5, p.315.





PINTADO



		Pintado:  A large mackerel-like fish, whose 

elongated spots suggested the Spanish word meaning painted 

as it is named, found along the Florida coast and in the 

West Indies.





SSN-672



Displacement:  4,640 t.

Length:  292’2”

Beam:  31’7”

Draft:  28’8”

Complement:  107

Armament:  4 21” torpedo tubes; SUBROC

Class:  STURGEON



	The second PINTADO was laid down 27 October 1967 by the 

San Francisco Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, Calif.; launched 16 

August 1969; and is scheduled to commission in 1971.



	As one of the most advanced submarines in the fleet, 

she is designed to seek out and destroy other submarines.  

She will be a worthy successor to those submarines who 

fought so valiantly in the Pacific during World War II.



	[Deactivated while still in commission on 1 October 

1996, PINTADO was both decommissioned and stricken from the 

Naval Vessel Register on 26 February 1998.  She went through 

the Navy’s Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling 

Program between 1 October 1997 and 27 October 1998.  When 

she emerged from the program, she no longer existed as an 

entity and was classed as scrapped.



Internet web site:

	United States Naval & Shipbuilding Museum

		www.uss-salem.org/worldnav/usa/decom.htm

Naval Institute “Proceedings,” May 1999, p. 179, 180, 181.]





Transcribed by Michael Hansen

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