USS Hawkbill (SSN-666)
USS Hawkbill (SSN-666) off Southern California on 1 February 1991 | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS Hawkbill (SSN-666) |
| Namesake | Misspelling carried over from previous ship of the name (USS Hawkbill (SS-366)) of "hawksbill", a large sea turtle |
| Ordered | 18 December 1964 |
| Builder | Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California |
| Laid down | 12 September 1966 |
| Launched | 12 April 1969 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Bernard F. Roeder |
| Commissioned | 4 February 1971 |
| Decommissioned | 15 March 2000 |
| Stricken | 15 March 2000 |
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| Fate | Scrapping via Ship and Submarine Recycling Program begun 15 March 2000, completed 1 December 2000 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Sturgeon-class attack submarine |
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| Length | 292 ft (89 m) |
| Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draft | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Installed power | 15,000 shp (11,000 kW) |
| Propulsion | One S5W nuclear reactor, two steam turbines, one screw |
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| Test depth | 1,300 ft (400 m) |
| Complement | 109 (14 officers, 95 enlisted men) |
| Armament | 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
USS Hawkbill (SSN-666), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the hawksbill, a large sea turtle. The name perpetuated the inadvertent misspelling of "hawksbill" in the naming of the first ship of that name, USS Hawkbill (SS-366), a Balao-class submarine launched in 1944. USS Hawkbill (SSN-666) was the eighteenth of 39 Sturgeon-class nuclear-powered submarines that were built.
Hawkbill was sometimes called "The Devil Boat" or the "Devilfish" because of her hull number, 666, with the number of the beast.