USS Sturgeon (SSN-637) was first commissioned in 1967. Its primary goal was to counteract the Soviet undersea threat and protect the Navy’s growing fleet of ballistic missile subs. Sturgeon ...

Built to the rigorous safety standards of the SUBSAFE program, established after the USS Thresher disaster, 37 Sturgeon-class subs served the U.S. Navy for nearly three decades before their ...

Open Hatches: On May 15, 1969, the USS Guitarro (SSN-665), a Sturgeon-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, sank while under construction at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California.

Because the car and passenger ferry is being repaired so close to the season start, it will head to Door County on its own steam and with a full crew.

In August 1993, when the USS Pargo, a Sturgeon-class attack submarine, went to sea with five civilian scientists aboard, George Newton smiled. It had been the end of a long journey for him.

Captain Daniel R. Welch, USN, Sturgeon Bay supervisor of shipbuilding, was also a speaker and Ellsworth L. Peterson, president of Peterson Builders, gave the welcome address. Richard Russell ...