USS Tinosa SSN-606 Submarine Model Sail again with the crew of the USS Tinosa SSN-606 in this handcrafted wooden Submarine Model. Each piece is carved from wood and handpainted to provide a piece youll love. The contract to build her was awarded to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in ...USS Tinosa SSN-606 Submarine Model Sail again with the crew of the USS Tinosa SSN-606 in this handcrafted wooden Submarine Model.
Each piece is carved from wood and handpainted to provide a piece youll love. The contract to build her was awarded to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine on 17 December 1958 and her keel was laid down on 24 November 1959. She was launched on 9 December 1961 sponsored by Mrs.
Samuel S. Stratton,[1][2] the wife of Congressman Samuel S. Stratton of New York, and commissioned on 17 October 1964, with Commander Robert B.
Brumsted in command. During this tour, Tinosa was based briefly at Port Everglades, Florida, as well as at New London and visited Bermuda in the course of her operations. At the end of this experimental and test duty, Tinosa began local operations out of New London.
Tinosa continued to work off the eastern seaboard and in the Caribbean into 1969. During her major overhaul in the spring of that year, she received the SUBSAFE submarine safety improvements designed in the wake of the tragic loss of submarine Thresher (SSN-593) in April 1963. Following the completion of this yard period in December 1971, Tinosa resumed active operations off the eastern seaboard and into the familiar waters of the Caribbean Sea and continued the routine into the middle of 1972.
In July, she crossed the Atlantic for visits to ports in northern Europe and for deployment in the Mediterranean Sea with the 6th Fleet. After operating out of Sardinia and Holy Loch during this period, she returned home in December to conduct tests in conjunction with a project sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tinosa worked out of New London from 1 February 1973 until the end of March, operating with submarines and surface craft on exercises and maneuvers.
In ensuing months, the submarine was twice deployed to Bermuda and operated off Andros Island before participating in joint United States-Canadian antisubmarine warfare exercises in December off the Florida coast. After being dry-docked in auxiliary repair drydock USS Waterford (ARD-5) at New London from January to March 1974, Tinosa departed her home port on 19 May, bound for the Mediterranean, and conducted her second deployment with the Sixth Fleet through the summer months. She visited Bizerte from 24 June to 1 July and was the first nuclear-powered submarine to visit Tunisia.
Subsequently, operating in the Narragansett Bay area into the spring of that year, Tinosa departed New London on 23 July, bound for Charleston, South Carolina. She later shifted south to operate off the Florida coast. She then resumed operations with the Atlantic Fleet commencing with two months of weapons system testing in the Caribbean from 13 February to 20 May 1978.
This was followed by a combined exercise with units of t