Growler

Category: Historic Ships

Current use: Floating exhibit. The museum complex is closed until Fall 2008.

Built: 1958 Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, NH
Length: 317.7, Beam: 27.2, Draft: 19, Displacement: 2768. Hull: STEEL
Original Use: Combatant

Description: The only guided missile submarine open to the public, Growler was one of three subs designed to carry Regulus cruise missiles. She was dispatched on nuclear deterrent patrol from 1958 to 1964. The vessel was saved from becoming a torpedo target by the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in 1988.