USS Halibut (SSGN-587)

	The USS Halibut
History
United States
Name	USS Halibut
Namesake	The halibut
Laid down	11 April 1957
Launched	9 January 1959
Sponsored by	Vernice Holifield
Commissioned	4 January 1960
Decommissioned	30 June 1976
Reclassified	From SSGN-587 to SSN-587, 15 April 1965
Stricken	30 April 1986
Fate	Disposed of through the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program, 9 September 1994
General characteristics
Type	SSGN 1960–1965; Attack submarine 1965–1976;
Displacement	3655 tons surfaced, 5000 tons submerged
Length	350 ft (110 m)
Beam	29 ft (8.8 m)
Draft	28 ft (8.5 m)
Propulsion	S3W reactor, 7300 shp; two turbines, two shafts
Speed	15/20+kt (28/37 km/h) (surfaced/submerged)
Range	unlimited except by food supplies
Complement	9 officers and 88 men
Armament	1 Regulus missile launcher (5 x Regulus I or 2 x Regulus II missiles); 6 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (four forward, two aft);

USS Halibut (SSGN-587), a unique nuclear-powered guided missile submarine-turned-special operations platform, later redesignated as an attack submarine SSN-587, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named after the halibut.

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