Built as an attack submarine under yard No 534 by New York Shipbuilding at Camden, New Jersey for the USA Navy.
When she was ordered on 03 March 1959 her intended name was BARB but before launching changed.
14 April 1960 laid down.
17 March 1962 launched as the USS POLLACK (SSN-603) one of the Permit class. Christened by Mrs. John Pastore.
Displacement 3,750 tons surface, 4,310 tonsubmerged. Dim. 84.86 x 9.63 x 7.67m. (draught)
Powered by two geared General Electric steam turbines, 15,000 hp, one shaft, speed 20 knots surface, 35+ knots submerged.
Armament: 4 – 21 inch torpedo tubes for Subroc Harpoon missiles
Crew 107.
26 May 1964 commissioned under command of Commander Harvey E. Lyon.
POLLACK reported to the Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet for duty, and became a unit of Submarine Squadron 4, homeported in Charleston, South Carolina. After shakedown in the Caribbean Sea, she underwent a six-month evaluation as an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon.
Most of 1965 was spent at sea evaluating new ASW tactics, participating in a destroyer versus submarine evaluation, and practicing an anti-shipping mission. Also during 1965 POLLACK earned the Navy Unit Commendation.
During 1966, POLLACK was evaluated in coordinated ASW operations. She spent most of 1967 at sea, making various weapons tests. On 1 March 1968, POLLACK's homeport was changed to Norfolk, Virginia, and she became a unit of Submarine Squadron 10, the first all-nuclear attack submarine squadron in the Navy. POLLACK remained with the Atlantic Fleet into 1970.
Following refueling overhaul at Charleston Naval Shipyard, POLLACK was transferred to the Pacific Fleet and SubRon-3. She made a liberty call in Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico and transited the Panama Canal to reach her new home port of San Diego, California, in March 1975.
In 1979 POLLACK began a refit in Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California. She returned to Submarine Squadron 3, Submarine tender SPERRY (AS-12), and San Diego, California, in 1982.
In 1988, POLLACK transferred to Submarine Group 5 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard.
POLLACK was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 March 1989 . Ex-POLLACK entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington, on 9 February 1993. Recycling was completed on 17 February 1995.
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Source: mostly from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pollack_(SSN-603) Warships of the US Navy by Morrinson and Rowe.