USS Haddo (SSN-604), a Thresher/Permit-class

Thresher/Permit class submarine

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 submarine

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, was the second ship of the United States Navy

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 to be named for the haddo, a pink salmon fish prevalent on the Pacific coast of the United States

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 and Canada

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The contract to build her was awarded to New York Shipbuilding

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 Corporation in Camden, New Jersey

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 on 3 March 1959 and her keel was laid down on 9 September 1960. She was launched

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 on 18 August 1962 sponsored by Mrs. Henry M. Jackson

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, and commissioned

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 on 16 December 1964, with Commander John G. Williams, Jr. in command.

After shakedown out of New London, Connecticut

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, in January 1965, Haddo arrived at her home port, Charleston, South Carolina

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, on 8 February and joined SubRon 4. She operated off the Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean Sea

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 until departing Charleston on 7 July for the Mediterranean Sea

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. She participated in numerous exercises with ships of the Sixth Fleet and NATO countries before returning home 7 November. Haddo has continued this pattern of service, alternating operations out of home port in the Atlantic with Sixth Fleet deployments, through 1967.

History from 1967 to 1991 needed.

Haddo was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register

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 on 12 June 1991. Ex-Haddo entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington

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and on 20 June 1992 ceased to exist.