USS Sturgeon (SSN-637) was first commissioned in 1967. Its primary goal was to counteract the Soviet undersea threat and protect the Navy’s growing fleet of ballistic missile subs. Sturgeon ...

In August 1993, when the USS Pargo, a Sturgeon-class attack submarine, went to sea with five civilian scientists aboard, George Newton smiled. It had been the end of a long journey for him.

Captain Daniel R. Welch, USN, Sturgeon Bay supervisor of shipbuilding, was also a speaker and Ellsworth L. Peterson, president of Peterson Builders, gave the welcome address. Richard Russell ...