AGSS-311 USS Archerfish Operation SEASCAN

USS Archerfish (SS/AGSS-311)
Class and type: Balao-class diesel-electric submarine
Builder: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
Laid down: 22 Jan 1943
Launched: 28 May 1943
Commissioned: 4 Sep 1943
Decommissioned: 12 Jun 1946
Recommissioned: 7 Mar 1952
Decommissioned: 21 Oct 1955
Recommissioned: 1 Aug 1957
Decommissioned: 1 May 1968
Struck: 1 May 1968
Fate: Sunk as a target off California on 19 Oct 1968

Operation "Sea Scan", a scientific study of marine weather conditions, water composition, ocean depths, and temperature ranges in 1960-1964.