USS Pintado SSN-672 Submarine Model, US Navy, Scale Model, Mahogany, Sturgeon Class

Dive again with your shipmates in this USS Pintado SSN-672 Submarine Model. Each piece is carved from wood and hand painted to provide a piece you’ll love.

• Length – 18 inches
• Made from Mahogany
• US Veteran Owned Business
• The product is not intended to be used by children 12 years and younger.

USS Pintado (SSN-672), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the pintado, a large mackerel-like fish, whose elongated spots suggested the Spanish language word meaning “painted.”

Construction and commissioning
The contract to build Pintado was awarded to Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California, on 29 December 1965 and her keel was laid down there on 27 October 1967. She was launched on 16 August 1969, sponsored by Mrs. Bernard A. Clarey, the wife of the Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Bernard A. “Chick” Clarey (1912–1996), and commissioned on 11 September 1971 with Commander William Holland, Jr., in command.

Service history

Pintado was assigned San Diego, California, as her home port. She commenced her first operational deployment to the United States Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific in late October 1972, returning to San Diego in April 1973. Pintado conducted her second operational deployment from March to October 1974. After returning to San Diego, Pintado became the first submarine to successfully launch the Harpoon missile.

In May 1974 Pintado collided with a Soviet Navy YANKEE class ballistic missile submarine in the approaches to the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky naval base on the Soviet Union’s Kamchatka Peninsula. The collision smashed much of Pintado’s sonar sphere, jammed one of her a starboard-side torpedo hatches shut, and moderately damaging one of her diving planes. the commanding officer was CDR. But Reynolds.The Soviet submarine surfaced immediately, but the extent of damage to her was not known. Pintado, meanwhile, remained submerged and departed the area at top speed. She proceeded to Guam, where she entered drydock for repairs that lasted seven weeks.

From end October 1974 to September 1975, Pintado conducted routine training operations in the San Diego area. In September 1975,Pintado changed homeport to Bremerton, Washington, where she underwent upgrades and repairs at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Finishing the yard period early, Pintado returned to San Diego in July 1976 and resumed routine training operations in the San Diego area.

Following her year of routine training, Pintado deployed to the Western Pacific in August 1977. She was operating with Republic of Korea Navy vessels on 6 December 1977 when a South Korean surface ship abruptly turned toward her. She executed a crash dive, but the two ships collided, and Pintado sustained damage to the top of her rudder. She returned to San Diego in February 1978.

From February to September 1978, Pintado conducted local training operations in the San Diego area.

From September to November 1978 Pintado operated in the Arctic under the polar ice cap, surfacing at the North Pole on 10 October 1978.

In September 1979 Pintado deployed to the Indian Ocean and supported Carrier battle groups Alpha and Bravo during the early weeks of the Iranian hostage crisis. She returned to San Diego in February 1980.

In September 1979 Pintado deployed to the Indian Ocean and supported Carrier battle groups Alpha and Bravo during the early weeks of the Iranian hostage crisis. She returned to San Diego in February 1980.

In June 1982, Pintado entered Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for a 16-month regular overhaul during which her combat systems were extensively upgraded. The overhaul was completed in October 1983, and in December 1983 she resumed operations out of San Diego.

Pintado returned to the