USS Greenling (SSN-614)
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USS Greenling (SSN-614) was a Permit-class submarine. She was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the greenling, an elongated, fine-scaled fish found from Kamchatka to California. Her keel was laid down on 15 August 1961 by General Dynamics Electric Boat of Groton, Connecticut.
The Ship-Submarine Recycling Program (SRP) is the process that the United States Navy uses to dispose of decommissioned nuclear vessels. SRP takes place only at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (PSNS) in Bremerton, Washington, but the preparations can begin elsewhere.
In this image, the superstructure of Virginia has been replaced with containment structures to remove nuclear fuel before entering SRP.
Enterprise under tow to Newport News Shipbuilding to begin the defuelling process in June 2013
The hull of Long Beach moored at Puget Sound awaiting disposal in March 2011
A total of sixteen decommissioned SSNs and SSBNs moored awaiting their fate at Puget Sound in May 1993