Ex-USS Menhaden - the Navy's "yellow submarine" [Image 3 of 3]

KEYPORT, WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES

05.15.2019

Photo by Nathanael T. Miller 

Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Keyport

190515-N-YX169-003
KEYPORT, Washington (May 15, 2019) The ex-USS Menhaden (SS 377), seen here sometime in the 1980s in Puget Sound. Following its decommissioning from active service, it was painted yellow and first used as a Trident program test target before being acquired in the early 1980s by the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Keyport, known then as Naval Undersea Warfare Engineering Station (NUWES) in Keyport, Washington. NUWES used the Navy’s “yellow submarine” in numerous acoustic tests. Menhaden was in commission from 1945 – 1971, and was used as a test unit from 1976 until its final scrapping in 1988. Photo catalog #NUM.2008.021.017, and is courtesy of the Naval Undersea Museum. (RELEASED)

• Date Taken: 05.15.2019
• Date Posted: 05.20.2019 12:26
• Photo ID: 5381300
• VIRIN: 190515-N-YX169-003
• Resolution: 5874x3810
• Size: 3.7 MB
• Location: KEYPORT, WASHINGTON, US