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USS Barb (SSN-596)

Ship
USS Barb (SSN-596), a Permit-class attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the barb, a kingfish of the Atlantic coast. The contract to build her was awarded to the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation in... Wikipedia
Launched: February 22, 1962
Length: 278′
Construction started: November 9, 1959
Beam: 32′
Commissioned: 24 August 1963
Decommissioned: 20 December 1989