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The first ship in the Navy to bear the name, the USS GLENARD P. LIPSCOMB was a nuclear-powered attack submarine specially designed to be as quiet as possible. Both decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on July 11, 1990, the GLENARD P. LIPSCOMB spent the following years berthed at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Wash., until she entered the Navy's Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program there. Recycling was completed on December 1, 1997.
General Characteristics: | Awarded: December 16, 1968 |
Keel laid: June 5, 1971 | |
Launched: August 4, 1973 | |
Commissioned: December 21, 1974 | |
Decommissioned: July 11, 1990 | |
Builder: Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, CT. | |
Propulsion system: one S5Wa nuclear reactor | |
Propellers: one | |
Length: 365 feet (111.3 meters) | |
Beam: 31.8 feet (9.7 meters) | |
Draft: 28.9 feet (8.8 meters) | |
Displacement: Surfaced: approx. 5,600 tons Submerged: approx. 6,480 tons | |
Speed: Surfaced: approx. ? knots Submerged: approx. 25 knots | |
Armament: four 533 mm torpedo Tubes for | |
Crew: 12 Officers, 108 Enlisted |
Crew List:
This section contains the names of sailors who served aboard USS GLENARD P. LIPSCOMB. It is no official listing but contains the names of sailors who submitted their information.
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