page_title: USS Redfin
section_title: Auxiliary research submarine, 1959–1967
hierarchical_section_title: USS Redfin / Auxiliary research submarine, 1959–1967
caption_attribution_description: USS_Redfin; http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08272.htm Redfin (SS-272) underway, circa 1963, place unknown. US Navy photo courtesy of Hyperwar US Navy in WW II web site.
context_page_description: USS Redfin, a Gato-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the redfin, any of several North American fishes with reddish fins.
  Redfin was laid down 16 February 1942 by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, Wisc.; launched 4 April 1943; sponsored by Mrs. B. B. Wygant; and commissioned 31 August 1943, Lt. Comdr. R. D. King in command.
context_section_description: In April 1959 she entered the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and received an inertial guidance system. Redfin became a laboratory and training ship for the testing of inertial guidance systems used in Polaris submarines. She preceded the first ballistic missile submarine George Washington (SSBN-598) as flagship of Submarine Squadron 14.
  After searching for the lost Thresher (SSN-593) in April 1963, she was reclassified AGSS-272 on 28 June. Operating in the Atlantic, she continued to assist in special research and development projects, including the Polaris A-3 missile, until she decommissioned 15 May 1967 to become a Naval Reserve Training Ship at Baltimore, Md. Redfin was struck from the Navy List on 1 July 1970 and sold to the North American Smelting Co., Wilmington, Del., on 3 March 1971.
caption: Redfin (SSR-272), c. 1963.
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