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{{short description|Submarine of the United States}}
{{Other ships|USS Sea Devil}}
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|Ship image= [[Image:USS Sea Devil (SSN-664) 1968.jpg|300px|USS Sea Devil (SSN-664)]]
|Ship caption=USS ''Sea Devil'' (SSN-664), in the Cooper River heading to her sea trials after overhaul in Charleston, SC in 1983
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|Ship country=United States
|Ship flag= {{USN flag|1991}}
|Ship name= USS ''Sea Devil''
|Ship namesake=The sea devil (''Manta birostria''), also known as the [[manta ray]] and devil ray
|Ship ordered= 28 May 1964
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|Ship builder= [[Northrop Grumman Newport News|Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company]], [[Newport News, Virginia|Newport News]], [[Virginia]]
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|Ship laid down= 12 April 1966
|Ship launched= 5 October 1967
|Ship sponsor=Mrs. [[Ignatius J. Galantin]]
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|Ship commissioned= 30 January 1969
|Ship decommissioned= 16 October 1991
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|Ship struck= 16 October 1991
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|Ship fate= Scrapping via [[Ship and Submarine Recycling Program]] begun 1 March 1998, completed 7 September 1999
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|Ship class= [[Sturgeon class submarine|''Sturgeon''-class]] [[attack submarine]]
|Ship displacement=*{{convert|3860|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} light
*{{convert|4268|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} full
*{{convert|408|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} dead
|Ship length={{convert|292|ft|3|in|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship beam= {{convert|31|ft|8|in|m|abbr=on}}
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|Ship draft= {{convert|28|ft|8|in|m|abbr=on}}
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|Ship power=15,000 [[shaft horsepower]] (11.2 [[megawatt]]s)
|Ship propulsion= One [[S5W reactor|S5W]] [[nuclear reactor]], two [[steam turbine]]s, one [[Propeller|screw]]
|Ship speed=*{{convert|15|kn|lk=in}} surfaced
*{{convert|25|kn}} submerged
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|Ship test depth={{convert|1,300|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}
|Ship complement=108
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|Ship armament=4 × {{convert|21|in|mm|0|adj=on}} [[torpedo tube]]s
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'''USS ''Sea Devil'' (SSN-664)''', a [[Sturgeon class submarine|''Sturgeon''-class]] [[attack submarine]], was the second ship of the [[United States Navy]] to be named for the
==Construction and commissioning==
[[Image:USS Sea Devil (SSN-664).jpg|300px|left|thumb|''Sea Devil'' off the [[Virginia Capes]] on 1 February 1991.]]The contract to build ''Sea Devil'' was awarded to [[Northrop Grumman Newport News|Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company]] in [[Newport News, Virginia|Newport News]], [[Virginia]]. on 28 May 1964, and her [[keel]] was laid down there on 12 April 1966. The construction was fairly uneventful, except a short delay. She was [[Ship naming and launching|launched]] on 5 October 1967, sponsored by Mrs. Ignatius J. Galantin, the wife of [[Admiral]] [[Ignatius J. Galantin|Ignatius J. "Pete" Galantin]] (1910-2004), and [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 30 January 1969. She went under sea trials on 26 January after several finishing touches.
==Service history==
''Sea Devil'' was assigned to [[Submarine Division 62]] at [[Norfolk, Virginia|Norfolk]], Virginia. She operated out of Norfolk into at least 1977. She was assigned to Submarine Squadron 4 in Charleston SC from the mid-1980s until her decommissioning in 1991. She was a 637 class fast attack hunter killer. She also surfaced multiple times through the ice in the arctic. She usually patrolled the far north Atlantic, monitoring Russian vessels and ports. It went on several submarine stalking missions, watching Russian submarines carefully. It eventually became outdated and was taken out of service for repairs in 1981.
{{Expand section|history from 1969 to 1991|date=January 2010}}
==Decommissioning and disposal==
''Sea Devil'' was [[Ship decommissioning|decommissioned]] on 16 October 1991 and stricken from the [[Naval Vessel Register]] the same day. Her scrapping via the Nuclear-Powered [[Ship and Submarine Recycling Program]] at [[Puget Sound Naval Shipyard]] in [[Bremerton, Washington|Bremerton]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]], began on 1 March 1998 and was completed on 7 September 1999. The nuclear fuel was stored there until 2001 and then was transferred to [[Naval Reactors Facility|The Naval Reactors Facility]] in Idaho.
== References ==
*{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/s/sea-devil-ssn-664.html}}
*{{Naval Vessel Register|{{Naval Vessel Register URL|id=SSN664}}}}
*[http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08664.htm NavSource Online: Submarine Photo Archive Sea Devil (SSN-664)]
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[[Category:Ships built in Newport News, Virginia]]
[[Category:Sturgeon-class submarines]]
[[Category:Cold War submarines of the United States]]
[[Category:Nuclear submarines of the United States Navy]]
[[Category:1967 ships]]
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