SSN 583 Showcase
The Sargo (SSN 583) preparing to get underway for sea trials on a typical Mare Island Naval Shipyard morning. A small harbor tug (YTL 592) stands by to assist.
~ 03 AUG 1958 (US Navy Official Photograph)
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The USS Sargo (SSN 583) is accompanied to sea as it passes Ballast Point with what appears to be North Island and San Diego, CA in the background.
~ Date Unknown (US Navy Official Photograph)
In a rarely seen aerial view (at least by OPFOR) the pre-comm Sargo (SSN 583) knifes through the waters of San Pablo Bay as she transits outbound from Mare Island for sea trials.
~ 13 SEP 1958 (US Navy Official Photograph
The future USS Sargo (SSN 583) departs Mare Island Naval Shipyard on the Napa River passing hull sections for the scheduled Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN 600) or the yet-to-be Permit (SSN 594) as she heads out for sea trials.
~ 03 AUG 1958 (US Navy Official Photograph)
USS Sargo (SSN 583) gets line one across as she arrives at Pearl Harbor, HI. Line handlers turn to as those on lines 2, 3, and 4 demonstrate their prowess with the heaveys.
~ 16 OCT 1958 (US Navy Official Photograph
Illuminated by a flare, the USS Sargo (SSN 583) casts deep shadows while surfaced through the thin ice of a polynya, somewhere north of the Arctic Circle.
~ 1960 (US Navy Arctic Submarine Laboratory)
The Sargo (SSN 583) at her outfitting berth shortly after her launching on 10 OCT 1957 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. She would not receive her USS designator until commissioning until a year later. The Grayback (SSG 574) is in the background.
~ Date Unknown (US Navy Official Photograph)
The USS Sargo (SSN-583), commissioned on 01 OCT 1958, returns to Mare Island from her first cruise after being designated USS.
~ 02 NOV 1958 (US Navy Official Photograph)
USS Sargo (SSN 583) departs Mare Island mid-autumn on the Napa River. The shipyard's Master Pipefitter Irv Witthorne assists the Nuclear Power Superintendent CDR E. E. Kintner in casting off the last line.
~ 07 OCT 1958 (US Navy Official Photograph)
