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Tom Clancy, author of the 1984 novel The Hunt for Red October, was given a brief ride into port aboard Hammerhead in the late 1980s prior to the filming of the 1990 film adaptation of the novel, also entitled The Hunt for Red October. After spotting a mounted roll of toilet paper in Hammerhead's sonar room used for wiping grease pencil markings off the screens in the rooms, he proclaimed his intention to write the contrasting image of the low-technology toilet paper mount among all of the complicated electronics and other equipment aboard Hammerhead into the film. True to his word, he did.
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hammerhead, other, ships, with, same, name, hammerhead, sturgeon, class, submarine, second, ship, united, states, navy, named, hammerhead, shark, voracious, fish, found, warm, seas, with, curious, hammerlike, head, historyunited, statesnamenamesakethe, hammerh. For other ships with the same name see USS Hammerhead USS Hammerhead SSN 663 a Sturgeon class submarine was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the hammerhead shark a voracious fish found in warm seas with a curious hammerlike head USS Hammerhead SSN 663 HistoryUnited StatesNameUSS Hammerhead SSN 663 NamesakeThe hammerhead sharkOrdered28 May 1964BuilderNewport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company Newport News VirginiaLaid down29 November 1965Launched14 April 1967Sponsored byMrs O Clark FisherCommissioned28 June 1968Decommissioned5 April 1995Stricken5 April 1995Honors andawardsMarjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award for U S Atlantic Fleet 1981FateScrapping via Ship and Submarine Recycling Program completed 22 November 1995General characteristicsClass and typeSturgeon class attack submarineDisplacement3 860 long tons 3 922 t light 4 268 long tons 4 336 t full 408 long tons 415 t deadLength292 ft 3 in 89 08 m Beam31 ft 8 in 9 65 m Draft28 ft 8 in 8 74 m Installed power15 000 shaft horsepower 11 megawatts PropulsionOne S5W nuclear reactor two steam turbines one screwSpeed15 knots 28 km h 17 mph surfaced 25 knots 46 km h 29 mph submergedTest depth1 300 ft 396 m Complement109 14 officers 95 enlisted menSensors and processing systemsBPS 14 15 surface search radar BQQ 5 multi function bow mounted sonar BQR 7 passive in submarines with BQQ 2 sonar BQS 12 active 7 sonar TB 16 or TB 23 towed array sonarElectronic warfare amp decoysWLQ 4 V WLR 4 V WLR 9Armament4 21 inch 533 mm torpedo tubes Mark 48 torpedoes UUM 44A SUBROC missiles UGM 84A C Harpoon missiles Mark 57 deep water mines Mark 60 CAPTOR mines Tomahawk Land Attack Missile Contents 1 Construction and commissioning 2 Service history 3 Decommissioning and disposal 4 ReferencesConstruction and commissioning editThe contract to build Hammerhead was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company at Newport News Virginia on 28 May 1964 and her keel was laid down there on 29 November 1965 She was launched on 14 April 1967 sponsored by Mrs O Clark Fisher and commissioned on 28 June 1968 Service history editThis section needs expansion with history from 1968 to 1981 You can help by adding to it January 2010 In 1981 she won the Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award for the Atlantic Fleet This section needs expansion with history from 1981 to the late 1980s You can help by adding to it January 2010 Tom Clancy author of the 1984 novel The Hunt for Red October was given a brief ride into port aboard Hammerhead in the late 1980s prior to the filming of the 1990 film adaptation of the novel also entitled The Hunt for Red October After spotting a mounted roll of toilet paper in Hammerhead s sonar room used for wiping grease pencil markings off the screens in the rooms he proclaimed his intention to write the contrasting image of the low technology toilet paper mount among all of the complicated electronics and other equipment aboard Hammerhead into the film True to his word he did This section needs expansion with history from the late 1980s to 1995 You can help by adding to it January 2010 Decommissioning and disposal editHammerhead under the command of Commander Forrest Novacek was decommissioned on 5 April 1995 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on the same day Her scrapping via the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton Washington was completed on 22 November 1995 References editThis article incorporates text from the public domainDictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships The entry can be found here This article includes information collected from theNaval Vessel Register which as a U S government publication is in the public domain The entry can be found here NavSource Online Submarine Photo Archive Hammerhead SSN 663 nbsp This article about a specific naval submarine of the United States is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title USS Hammerhead SSN 663 amp oldid 1093684443, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
