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

(1976) Vol. 6, p.509.





SILVERSIDES



		Silversides:  A small fish marked with a silvery 

stripe along each side of its body.





SSN-679



Displacement:  

	Surfaced:  3,640 t.

	Submerged:  4,640 t.

Length:  292’3”

Beam:  31’8”

Draft:  28’9”

Speed:  20+ k.

Complement:  107

Armament:  4 21” torpedo tubes; SUBROC

Class:  STURGEON



	The second SILVERSIDES (SSN-679) was laid down on 

13 October 1969 by the General Dynamics Corp., Electric Boat 

Division, Groton, Conn.; launched on 4 June 1971; sponsored 

by Mrs. John H. Chafee, wife of the then Secretary of the 

Navy; and commissioned on 5 May 1972, Comdr. John E. Allen 

in command.



	Following shakedown in the Atlantic and Caribbean, 

SILVERSIDES continued to operate in the Atlantic, homeported 

at Charleston, S.C., into 1974.



	[Decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel 

Register on 2 August 1994, former SILVERSIDES is in storage 

at Bremerton, Washington awaiting her start in the Navy’s 

Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program.  Her 

projected start date is 28 March 2001.  When she emerges 

from the program, she will no longer exist as a complete 

ship and will be listed as scrapped.



Naval Institute “Proceedings,” May 1995, p.218, 219; May 

1999, p.181]





Transcribed by Michael Hansen

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