USS Silversides SSN-679 Submarine Model, US Navy, Scale Model, Mahogany

  

USS Silversides SSN-679 Submarine Model. Sail again with the crew of the USS Silversides SSN-679 in this handcrafted wooden submarine model. Each piece is carved from wood and handpainted to provide a piece you'll love.

The product is not intended to be used by children 12 years and younger. The contract to build Silversides was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut, on 25 June 1968 and her keel was laid down on 13 October 1969. She was launched on 4 June 1971, sponsored by Mrs.

Chafee, wife of then-Secretary of the Navy John H. Following shakedown in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean, Silversides began operations in the Atlantic with her home port at Naval Station Charleston at Charleston, South Carolina. Silversides went into drydock at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, in January 1977, at which time her home port was changed from Charleston to Naval Station Norfolk at Norfolk, Virginia.

On 11 October 1981, "Silversides" surfaced at the North Pole for the first time. In the autumn of 1984, Silversides left Norfolk for a scheduled refueling overhaul at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, entering drydock there in late November 1984. Decommissioning and disposal Silversides was decommissioned at Pearl Harbor on 21 July 1994 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register the same day.