Named to commemorate the career of USS ARCHER-FISH (SS 311) whose name, by the end of her career, had been arbitrarily changed to ARCHERFISH, SSN 678 was one of the STURGEON - class attack submarines. Both decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on March 31, 1998, the USS ARCHERFISH was disposed of by submarine recycling at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Wa., on 6 November 1998.
General Characteristics: Awarded: June 25, 1968
Keel Laid: June 19, 1969
Launched: January 16, 1971
Commissioned: December 17, 1971
Decommissioned: March 31, 1998
Builder: Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, CT.
Propulsion system: one S5W2 nuclear reactor
Propellers: one
Length: 302 feet (91.5 meters)
Beam: 31.7 feet (9.65 meters)
Draft: 29.2 feet (8.9 meters)
Displacement: Surfaced: approx. 4,250 tons
Displacement: Submerged: approx. 4,700 tons
Speed: Surfaced: approx. 15 knots
Speed: Submerged: approx. 30 knots
Armament: four 533 mm torpedo tubes for Mk-48 torpedoes, Harpoon, Tomahawk, and SUBROC missiles, ability to lay mines
Crew: 12 Officers, 95 Enlisted
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