![]() The group toiling forward on board Guitarro departed for lunch at 2000, unaware that the other work crew had already completed their calibrations and begun the process of emptying the aft ballast tanks. Despite warnings from the security watch that the boat was already riding low enough in the waves that water was sporadically pouring into an unopened manhole, they continued their work, still wholly ignorant of what was transpiring at the other end of the vessel. ![]() A half hour later, another construction team, unware of their counterparts’ activities, filled the ballast tanks at the bow in order to bring Guitarro to within a half degree of trim. At 1600 on, workmen who had been assigned to calibrate instruments on board Guitarro filled her aft ballast tanks with approximately five tons of water. ![]() The second Guitarro (SSN-665) was laid down on 9 December 1965 at Vallejo, Calif., by Mare Island Naval Shipyard launched on 27 July 1968 and sponsored by Mrs. ![]() (SSN-665: displacement 4,103 (surfaced), 4,634 (submerged) length 292'0" beam 31'0" draft 29'0" speed 20 knots complement 130 armament 4 21-inch torpedo tubes class Sturgeon) ![]()
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