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From: deichman@cod.nosc.mil (Shane D. Deichman)
Subject: Re: seawolf submarine
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 90 00:51:53 GMT
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From: deichman@cod.nosc.mil (Shane D. Deichman)

>From: Allan Bourdius <ab3o+@andrew.cmu.edu>
>>I believe it was decommissioned sometime in the 1980s.
>
>Not only was SSN 575 decomissioned, it was stricken from the Navy List
>and scrapped.
>
>The liquid sodium reactor was removed because it didn't work very well.
>

Actually, according to sources here at NOSC, the SEAWOLF was decommissioned
and converted to a research vessel (a la the DOLPHIN).  As for her reactor,
she was said to have travelled more than 150,000 miles on that one.....

-shane

"the Ayatollah of Rock-and-Rollah"


