USS Flying Fish (SSN-673)

USS **Flying Fish** (SSN-673) was a Sturgeon-class attack submarine commissioned into the United States Navy on April 1, 1970. Built by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics in Groton, Connecticut, she served during the Cold War, participating in numerous vital surveillance and intelligence-gathering missions. Flying Fish conducted several deployments to the Atlantic and Mediterranean, supporting NATO operations and tracking Soviet naval activity. After nearly 25 years of service, she was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on May 16, 1996.