USS Pintado SSN-672 Submarine ModelDive 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 inchesMade from MahoganyUS Veteran Owned BusinessThe 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 commissioningThe 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 historyPintado 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.