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USS Drum (SSN 677)

- decommissioned -

USS DRUM was one of the STURGEON - class attack submarines and the second ship in the Navy to bear the name. Both decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on October 30, 1995, the DRUM is since then berthed at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Wash., awaiting her turn in the Navy's Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program there.

General Characteristics:Awarded: March 15, 1967
Keel Laid: August 20, 1968
Launched: May 23, 1970
Commissioned: April 15, 1972
Decommissioned: October 30, 1995
Builder: Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, Calif.
Propulsion system: one S5W2 nuclear reactor
Propellers: one
Length: 292 feet (89 meters)
Beam: 31.7 feet (9.65 meters)
Draft: 29.2 feet (8.9 meters)
Displacement: Surfaced: approx. 4,250 tons
Submerged: approx. 4,700 tons
Speed: Surfaced: approx. 15 knots
Submerged: approx. 30 knots
Armament: four 533 mm torpedo tubes for Mk-48 torpedoes, Harpoon, Tomahawk, and SUBROC missiles, ability to lay mines
Crew: 12 Officers, 95 Enlisted


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Crew List:

This section contains the names of sailors who served aboard USS DRUM. It is no official listing but contains the names of sailors who submitted their information.


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The photo below was taken by me and shows the DRUM laid-up at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Wash. on March 14, 2010.



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