page_title: USS Grayback (SSG-574)
section_title: Awards
hierarchical_section_title: USS Grayback (SSG-574) / Awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Two SSBN Deterrent Patrol badges of the United States Navy, without service stars attached.
context_page_description: USS Grayback, the lead ship of her class of submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the grayback.
  Her keel was laid down on 1 July 1954 by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard of Vallejo, California. She was launched on 2 July 1957 sponsored by Mrs. John A. Moore, widow of the last skipper of the USS Grayback and commissioned at Mare Island on 7 March 1958 with Lieutenant Commander Hugh G. Nott in command. Grayback was initially designated as an attack submarine, but was converted to a Regulus nuclear cruise missile submarine (SSG-574) in 1958.
context_section_description: In April 1997, officers and men of Grayback and the other four US Navy submarines that conducted strategic deterrent patrols in the Western Pacific between 1959 and 1964 were awarded the right to wear the Navy's SSBN Deterrent Patrol insignia.
caption: Crewmen that served aboard Grayback and conducted strategic deterrent patrols were permitted to wear the SSBN Deterrent Patrol insignia from 1997. [3]
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