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1935 - PCU PERCH (SS-176) keel laid as PERCH at Electric Boat Company, Groton, CT.
1943 - PCU SEALION (SS-315) keel laid as SEALION, at Electric Boat Company, Groton, CT.
1945 - PCU CLAMAGORE (SS-343) launched at the Electric Boat Company, Groton, CT; sponsored by Miss M. J. Jacobs.
1947 - Ex-APOGON (SS-308) struck from the Naval Vessel Register.
1947 - Ex-PILOTFISH (SS-386) struck from the Naval Vessel Register.
1956 - PCU SALMON (SS-573) launched at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME; sponsored by Mrs. Albert M. Bontier, widow of the late Comdr. A. M. Bontier who was lost when submarine USS SEAWOLF (SS-197) was sunk during a war patrol in the South Pacific early in October 1944.
1966 - PCU QUEENFISH (SSN-651) launched at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, VA; sponsored by Hon. Julia Butler Hansen, Congresswoman from the State of Washington.
1982 - USS ROBERT E. LEE (SSBN-601) began the final POLARIS (A-3) offload at the Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific.
1992 - Ex-LAFAYETTE (SSBN-616) disposition complete by Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program (NPSSRP) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA.
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These are events for all United States Navy commissioned and some noncommissioned submarines and submersibles.
Sources of major events are at least double verified or the entry doesn't make the cut.
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