>From the “Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships,” 

(1970) Vol. 5, p.342.





POLLACK



	Pollack:  A food fish resembling the true Cod, but with 

the lower jaw projecting and without the barbel.





SSN-603



Displacement:  3,750 t.

Length:  278’5”

Beam:  31’7”

Draft:  25’2”

Speed:  20+ k. (surfaced and submerged)

Complement:  107

Armament:  4 21” torpedo tubes; SUBROC

Class:  THRESHER



	The second POLLACK (SSN-603) was laid down by the New 

York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J., 14 March 1960; 

launched 17 March 1962; sponsored by Mrs. John O. Pastore; 

and commissioned 26 May 1964, Comdr. Harvey E. Lyon in 

command.



	POLLACK reported to Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic 

Fleet for duty, and became a unit of Submarine Squadron 4, 

homeported in Charleston, S.C.  After shakedown in the 

Caribbean, she underwent a six-month evaluation as an 

antisubmarine warfare weapon.



	Most of 1965 was spent at sea evaluating new ASW 

tactics, participating in a destroyer versus submarine 

evaluation, and practicing an anti-shipping mission.



	During 1966, POLLACK was evaluated in coordinated ASW 

operations.  She spent most of 1967 at sea, making various 

weapons tests.  On 1 March 1968, POLLACK's homeport was 

changed to Norfolk and she became a unit of Submarine 

Squadron 10, the first all nuclear attack submarine squadron 

in the Navy.  POLLACK remains with the Atlantic Fleet into 

1970.



	[Decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel 

Register on 1 March 1989, former POLLACK went through the 

Navy’s Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program 

at Bremerton, Washington from 9 February 1993 to 17 February 

1995.  When finished, she no longer existed as a complete 

ship.



Internet web site:  

	United States Naval & Shipbuilding Museum

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Transcribed by Michael Hansen

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