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USS Gato (SSN-615)

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during its 1976 Unitas run under the command of CDR Robert Partlow. It was on this voyage that it became the first nuclear submarine to travel through the
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She was the first nuclear-powered submarine to completely circumnavigate South America, and the first nuclear-powered submarine to navigate the
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at a depth of some 200 feet (61 m). The impact completely destroyed the
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Corporation on 9 July 1960 and her keel was laid down on 15 December 1961 at
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Thresher/Permit-class nuclear submarine of the US Navy (in service 1968-96)
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This article about a specific naval submarine of the United States is a
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was decommissioned and stricken on 25 April 1996 and disposed of by
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known as the "Goal Keeper" or the "Black Cat." She was the second
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systems and mangled the covers of its forward torpedo tubes.
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gato
catshark
General Dynamics Electric Boat
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