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SSN 21

USS SEAWOLF

USS Seawolf (SSN 21) is a nuclear powered fast attack submarine and the lead ship of her class. 

Division of General Dynamics, Seawolf was commissioned on 19 July 1997 with the AN/BSY-2 Combat System installed. Seawolf is assigned to Submarine Development Squadron 5 and home-ported in Bangor, WA. 

She is the fourth submarine in the U.S. Navy to bear the name Seawolf. 

USS Seawolf (SS-28) was the lead ship of the H-Class submarines. Commissioned in 1913, she ran aground and sank in 1920. 

USS Seawolf (SS-197) was a Sargo-class submarine.  Commissioned in 1939, she was successful during World War II until she was lost to friendly fire in 1944. 

USS Seawolf (SSN 575) was the second nuclear powered ship in the U.S. Navy fleet.  She was commissioned in 1957 and decommissioned in 1987,  

Officers

Former Seawolf Commanding Officers

 SSN 21 SSN 575 SS 197
 CDR David M. McCall CDR Richard B. Laning LCDR Frederick B. Warder
 CDR Micheal J. Conner LCDR Charles S. Carlisle LCDR Royce L. Gross
 CDR Harold H. Howard III LCDR Alfred J. Whittle, Jr. LCDR Richard B. Lynch
 CDR Paul T. Stevens LCDR Thomas B. Brittain, Jr. LCDR Albert M. Bontier
 CDR Harry L. Ganteaume LCDR John P. Cady
 CDR Daniel Packer LCDR Edward T. Scott
 CAPT Broderick V. Berkhout CDR Rodney D. Griffiths
 CDR Jeffrey M. Bierley CDR Robert W. Chewing
 CDR Christopher T. George CDR John A. Webster
 CDR Jeremy M. Johnston CDR Charles R. MacVean
 CDR Jeffrey Fassbender CDR Micheal C. Tieman
 CDR Douglas Hagenbuch CDR Dennis L. Witzenburg
 CDR Richard W. Talipsky

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