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{{short description|Submarine of the United States}}

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|Ship country=United States
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|Ship name=USS ''Haddo''
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|Ship ordered=3 March 1959
|Ship builder=[[New York Shipbuilding|New York Shipbuilding Corporation]]
|Ship laid down=9 September 1960 
|Ship launched=18 August 1962
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|Ship commissioned=16 December 1964
|Ship decommissioned=12 June 1991
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|Ship struck=12 June 1991
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|Ship fate=Disposed of by [[submarine recycling]]
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|Ship notes=Ship's motto, Latin 'En Guard' (On [your] guard)
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|Ship class=[[Permit-class submarine|''Permit''-class]] [[submarine]]
|Ship displacement=*3,700 tons surfaced,
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|Ship speed=20 knots
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|Ship complement=100 officers and men
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'''USS ''Haddo'' (SSN-604)''', a [[Permit-class submarine|''Permit''-class]] [[submarine]], was the second ship of the [[United States Navy]] to be named for the [[haddo]], a pink salmon fish prevalent on the Pacific coast of the United States and Canada.

The contract to build her was awarded to [[New York Shipbuilding]] Corporation in [[Camden, New Jersey]] on 3 March 1959 and her keel was laid down on 9 September 1960.  She was [[ship naming and launching|launched]] on 18 August 1962 sponsored by Mrs. [[Henry M. Jackson]], and [[ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 16 December 1964, with Commander [[John G. Williams, Jr.]] in command.

After shakedown out of [[New London, Connecticut]], in January 1965, ''Haddo'' arrived at her home port, [[Charleston, South Carolina]], on 8 February and joined SubRon 4. She operated off the Atlantic coast and in the [[Caribbean Sea]] until departing Charleston on 7 July for the [[Mediterranean Sea]]. She participated in numerous exercises with ships of the [[US 6th Fleet|Sixth Fleet]] and [[NATO]] countries before returning home 7 November. ''Haddo'' has continued this pattern of service, alternating operations out of home port in the Atlantic with [[US 6th Fleet|Sixth Fleet]] deployments, through 1967.

During the summer of 1965 ''Haddo'' became the first ship of her class to be deployed to the Mediterranean Sea with the U.S. Sixth Fleet.  For operations during a period in 1966, ''Haddo'' was awarded the Navy Unit Commendation and was awarded the Meritorious Unit Commendation for operations conducted during a period in 1967.  As a result of the outstanding teamwork and many long hours of training and operations during fiscal years 1968 and 1969, ''Haddo'' was awarded the Battle Efficiency "E" for Excellence.  ''Haddo'' received an eighteen-month "subsafe" overhaul at Charleston Naval Shipyard from August 1969 to April 1970.  Following overhaul, ''Haddo'''s home port changed to New London, Connecticut, where she became a member of Submarine Squadron TEN.  ''Haddo'' operated out of New London from 1971 to 1973.  In the spring of 1972, ''Haddo'' completed the first six-month Mediterranean deployment for an SSN.  In the fall of 1972, she again deployed to the Med, returning just prior to Christmas.

From August 1973 until December 1975, ''Haddo'' underwent an extensive refueling overhaul at Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi.  After transiting the Panama Canal on 13 February 1976, ''Haddo'''s homeport shifted to San Diego, California and joined the Pacific Fleet as a member of Submarine Squadron THREE.

In the spring of 1977, ''Haddo'' departed for the Western Pacific, returning in the fall after an arduous six-month deployment.  During the first three months of 1978, ''Haddo'' accomplished an intensive Selected Restricted Availability at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington.  In December 1978, ''Haddo'' again deployed to the Western Pacific, visited New Zealand and returned in 1979.

''Haddo'' arrived in Mare Island Naval Shipyard for another intensive Selected Restricted Availability in February 1980.  In August of the same year she deployed to the Indian Ocean, visited HMAS Stirling in Western Australia from 16–22 December 1980, and returned to San Diego in February 1981.

In July 1981, ''Haddo'' deployed to the Western Pacific, visited Japan and returned to San Diego in late October 1981.  ''Haddo'' arrived at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in April 1982 and underwent an extensive modernization and overhaul in January 1984, returning to San Diego.

From February to August 1985, ''Haddo'' again deployed to the Western Pacific visiting Japan and Hong Kong.  As a result of her successful deployment, and superb operational reliability, ''Haddo'' was again awarded the Battle Efficiency "E" for Excellence for 1985.  ''Haddo'' underwent an intensive Selective Restricted Availability in October 1985 in San Diego.  ''Haddo'' then deployed to the Western Pacific from August 1986 to February 1987, again visiting Japan and Hong Kong.  She completed several months of successful local operations before undergoing her last Selected Restricted Availability in San Diego from January to March 1988.

''Haddo'' conducted a two-month ASW operation in June and July 1988.  From February 1989 until February 1990, ''Haddo'' was deployed from San Diego over 300 days, conducting intensive operations in support of the National Defense, including a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific visiting Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and the Philippines.  During her last of six WESTPACs, she also completed the longest continuously submerged period in her 25-year history.  In the fall-winter of 1989 and 1990, ''Haddo'' participated in the largest Pacific Fleet naval exercise since 1945, PACEX-89, and conducted a two-month ASW operation in the northern Pacific.

''Haddo'' was decommissioned and stricken from the [[Naval Vessel Register]] on 12 June 1991. Ex-''Haddo'' entered the Nuclear Powered [[Ship and Submarine Recycling Program]] in [[Bremerton, Washington]], 
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and on 20 June 1992 ceased to exist.

== References ==
{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/h/haddo-ii.html}}
* [http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Red-November-W-Craig-Reed/?isbn=9780061806766 Red November, Inside the Secret U.S. Soviet Submarine War]

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