Just posting a thread concerning the late submarine USS
Trepang, which I served on in the mid-to-late 90's.
While state-of-the-art in 1966 when she was commissioned, she sub-par by the time I became a member of her crew. She wasn't the quietest submarine in our fleet, nor the fastest, nor the most heavily armed... but she was special and could do some things that even the younger girls couldn't.
She was decommissioned and scrapped in 1999. Her reactor was buried in Montana (I believe), her hull was sold to Gillette to make disposable razor blades and her Control Room, Reactor Control Panel, Crew's Mess and Sonar Suite were all sent to the Smithsonian for their "Submarines of the Cold War" exhibit.
http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/NAVPALIB/CNO ... onian.html
Incidentally, in the part of the exhibit that has our old sonar shack, you will find a chalk board (sealed for all time) that has the names of the sonar operators on it and their cleaning assignments for our last field day. The names include Wakelee, Sims, Phillips, McCracken, Emert... and, yes, Wagner.
