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The U.S. Navy’s Sturgeon-class Submarine: An Experiment Gone Right
USS Sturgeon (SSN-637) was first commissioned in 1967. Its primary goal was to counteract the Soviet undersea threat and protect the Navy’s growing fleet of ballistic missile subs. Sturgeon ...
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Secret Missions and Dangerous Waters: The USS Parche’s Journey as a Spy Submarine
USS Parche: From Fighter to Spy Launched in 1974 as part of a fleet of Sturgeon-class submarines, the USS Parche was built to be an attack submarine. Its job was simple: to engage enemy ships ...
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Can I Borrow Your Sub?
In August 1993, when the USS Pargo, a Sturgeon-class attack submarine, went to sea with five civilian scientists aboard, George Newton smiled. It had been the end of a long journey for him.