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 ...

Launched in the early 1970s, US Navy submarine USS Parche was initially built as one of many Sturgeon-class attack submarines. But as fate would have it, she would then be transformed into a highly ...

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 ...