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Originally Posted by tmccarthy
USS Sand Lance (SSN-660)
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Your sub 660 got me to thinking ... was there a 666, yep?
Nicknamed “The Devil Boat” and “Devilfish” because of her hull number, the USS Hawkbill was a Sturgeon-class attack submarine built for the U.S. Navy in the mid-1960s. She was the second Navy ship named for the hawksbill, a now-critically endangered sea turtle. The turtle’s name was inadvertently misspelled in the naming of the first ship – the World War II-era submarine USS Hawkbill (SS-366) – and the name of the second ship kept the erroneously spelled name.
Don't touch it Aktungbby ... just kidding
