A History of the Submarines Built at the
Mare Island Naval Shipyard

Exhibit by Steve Shay
Frame 3, Page 3

USS Plunger SSN-595
Thresher class (No reported postmarks)
Launched December 9, 1961

Upper: Launch cover, sponsored by Mare Island Naval Shipyard Supervisors Association, shipyard machine postmark.
Lower: Commissioning cover, ship's cachet and corner card, shipyard handstamp postmark.

Cover 694: Plunger SSN 595, December 9, 1961

Cover 695: Plunger SSN 595, November 21, 1962

500th ship commissioned at Mare Island, November 21, 1962. Served in the Pacific in an operational, evaluation and training function. Decommissioned January 9, 1990 and disposed of by scrapping/recycling March 1996.

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Last Updated: March 24, 2002
Copyright 2002 Steve Shay (used with permission)