Newsgroups: sci.military Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!cbnews!cbnews!military 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 Approved: military@att.att.com Message-ID: <1990Nov29.005153.22126@cbnews.att.com> References: <1990Nov15.015554.4482@cbnews.att.com> <1990Nov16.054614.24287@cbnews.att.com> <1990Nov17.020233.29926@cbnews.att.com> <1990Nov21.222724.21580@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Lines: 22 From: deichman@cod.nosc.mil (Shane D. Deichman) >From: Allan Bourdius >>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"