page_title: USS Growler (SSG-577)
section_title: Decommissioning and fate
hierarchical_section_title: USS Growler (SSG-577) / Decommissioning and fate
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking southwest on a sunny midday at en:USS Growler (SSG-577) temporarily docked at Atlantic Basin, east of en:Brooklyn Cruise Terminal for the summer of 2008
context_page_description: USS Growler (SSG-577) was an early attempt by the U.S. Navy to field a cruise missile submarine that would provide a nuclear deterrent using its second series of cruise missiles. Built to deliver the Regulus I cruise missile, Growler was the second and final submarine of the Grayback class, fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named after the growler. Since Regulus I and Regulus II programs had problems, Growler and Grayback were the only two submarines built in this class as instead, the U.S. Navy veered its nuclear deterrence efforts into submarine launched ballistic missiles —the Polaris missile program.
  What makes Growler and her sister unusual was her nuclear armament, deployed on a conventional diesel-electric submarine. Her mission was to provide nuclear deterrent capability off the Pacific Coast of the Soviet Union during peak years of the Cold War, from 1958 to 1964.
context_section_description: Returning to Mare Island, California, Growler decommissioned 25 May 1964 and was placed in reserve. She was initially moved to the Inactive Fleet section in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, and was later relocated to the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 August 1980 and was scheduled to be used as a torpedo target. However, on 8 August 1988, Congress awarded the hulk to Zachary Fisher, Chairman of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City.
  Due to the renovations to the entire Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum complex, including USS Intrepid and Pier 86, Growler was towed to Brooklyn for repairs.  Holes found rusted in the hull complicated matters and pushed repair costs past $1.5 million.  Growler returned to Pier 86 in late February 2009, and was re-opened to the public on 21 May 2009, during the Intrepid museum "Fleet Week 2009" 
  celebration.
caption: In Atlantic Basin, Brooklyn, 2008
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