); USS Montana (SSN-794); USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN-795); USS New Jersey (SSN-796); USS Iowa (SSN-797); USS Massachusetts (SSN-798); USS Idaho (SSN-799); USS Arkansas (SSN-800); USS Utah (SSN-810); USS Oklahoma (SSN-802); USS Arizona (SSN-803); USS Barb (SSN-804)...
for hundreds of years. Just last month, Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite announced that the next Virginia-class attack boat, hull SSN-804, will be christened USS Barb in honor of Fluckey’s sub. The original USS Barb was hull SS-220. That’s over 80 years and 584 submarine hulls ...
USS Barb (SSN-596), a Permit-class attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the barb, a kingfish of the Atlantic coast. The contract to build her was awarded to the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and her keel was laid ...