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USS Blueback (SS-581)
País	E.e.u.u
Tipo	Submarino diesel-eléctrico clase Barbel
Lanzado	16 de mayo de 1959
Constructor	Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula

USS Blueback (SS-581) is a decommissioned Barbel-class submarine formerly in the United States Navy. She was the second Navy submarine to bear the name. Blueback was laid down by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation of Pascagoula, Mississippi on 15 April 1957. She was launched on 16 May 1959 sponsored by Mrs. Kenmore McManes, wife of Rear Admiral McManes, and commissioned on 15 October 1959, Lieutenant Commander Robert H. Gautier in command. She was the last non-nuclear submarine to join the United States Navy and was the final conventionally powered combat capable submarine to be decommissioned, leaving the United States Navy with a fully nuclear submarine fleet except for the research submarine USS Dolphin.

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USS Blueback (SS-581) fue un submarino de la clase Barbel que sirvió en la Armada de los Estados Unidos desde 1959 hasta 1990. Fue el último submarino no nuclear en unirse a la flota estadounidense, y el último en ser dado de baja antes que el de propulsión nuclear de la clase Los Ángeles Submarinos.
She participated in various missions during the Cold War, including surveillance, training, and testing of new technologies. She also appeared in several films and television shows, such as The Hunt for Red October and Hawaii Five-O. She is now a museum ship at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland, Oregon.