SSN 682 Timeline

SSN 682 History

Date Event Category
25 JUN 1968 Tunny Contract Awarded SSN-682 Events
20 JUL 1969 US Lands Men on the Moon World Events
22 MAY 1970 Tunny Keel Laid SSN-682 Events
10 JUN 1972 Tunny Launching SSN-682 Events
26 JAN 1974 USS TUNNY (SSN 682) Commissioning SSN-682 Events
26 JAN 1974 USS TUNNY (SSN 682) Homeport Established at Charleston, SC SSN-682 Homeports
09 AUG 1974 President Richard M. Nixon Resigns World Events
06 MAR 1975 USS TUNNY (SSN 682) - MED Run 1975 - Departed Charleston, SC SSN-682 Deployments
17 JUL 1975 Apollo-Soyuz: US-Soviet Handshake in Space World Events
25 AUG 1975 USS TUNNY (SSN 682) - MED Run 1975 - Returned to Charleston, SC SSN-682 Deployments
26 JUL 1976 USS TUNNY (SSN 682) - MED Run 1976 - Departed Charleston, SC SSN-682 Deployments
22 DEC 1976 USS TUNNY (SSN 682) - MED Run 1976 - Returned to Charleston, SC SSN-682 Deployments
16 AUG 1977 Death of Elvis Presley World Events
19 AUG 1978 USS TUNNY (SSN 682) - Homeport Change to Pearl Harbor, HI SSN-682 Homeports
01 JAN 1979 USS TUNNY (SSN 682) - WestPac 1979 - Departed Pearl Harbor, HI SSN-682 Deployments
28 MAR 1979 Three Mile Island Accident World Events
30 JUN 1979 USS TUNNY (SSN 682) - WestPac 1979 - Returned to Pearl Harbor, HI SSN-682 Deployments
04 NOV 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis World Events
08 DEC 1980 John Lennon Murdered World Events
20 JAN 1981 Iranian Hostage Crisis Ends World Events
29 MAR 1983 FLEETEX '83 - US NAVY PACFLEET U.S. Naval Exercises
01 SEP 1983 Korean Air Lines Flight 007 Shootdown World Events
25 OCT 1983 Invasion of Grenada World Events
26 APR 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Accident World Events
03 JUL 1988 Iran Air Flight 655 Shootdown World Events
26 DEC 1991 **************** !! COLD WAR ENDS !! **************** World Events
13 MAR 1998 USS TUNNY (SSN 682) Decommissioning SSN-682 Events
27 OCT 1998 Tunny Recycling Complete SSN-682 Events
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