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

(1976) Vol. 6, p.398.





SEA DEVIL



		Sea Devil:  Manta birostria, the largest of all 

rays, noted for power and endurance.





SSN-664



Displacement:  

	Surfaced:  3,800 t.

	Submerged:  4,600 t.

Length:  292’3”

Beam:  31’3”

Draft:  28’8”

Speed:  20+ k.

Complement:  107

Armament:  4 21” torpedo tubes; SUBROC

Class:  STURGEON



	The second SEA DEVIL (SSN-664) was laid down on 12 

April 1966 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock 

Co., Newport News, Va.; launched on 5 October 1967; 

sponsored by Mrs. Ignatius J. Galantin; and commissioned on 

3 January 1969, Lt. Comdr. Richard A. Currier in command.



	Assigned to Submarine Division 62 at Norfolk, SEA DEVIL 

has, into 1975, conducted exercises and participated in 

operations which enhance her capabilities in her primary 

mission, antisubmarine warfare.



	[Deactivated, while still in commission, on 25 February 

1991, SEA DEVIL was both decommissioned and stricken from 

the Naval Vessel Register on the following 16 October.  She 

started the Navy’s Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine 

Recycling Program at Bremerton, Washington on 1 March 1998 

and, as of May 1999, the process of scrapping the former 

attack submarine in continuing.



Internet web site:

	United States Naval & Shipbuilding Museum

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





Transcribed by Michael Hansen

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