USS Albacore, 1957

The third Albacore (AGSS-569) was laid down by the Portsmouth (N.H.) Naval Shipyard on 15 March 1952; launched on 1 August 1953; sponsored by Mrs. J. E. Jowers, the widow of Chief Motor Machinist's Mate Arthur L. Stanton, lost with the second Albacore (SS-218); and commissioned on 6 December 1953, Lt. Comdr. Kenneth C. Gummersqn in command.

The submarine departed Portsmouth on 12 October 1955 and sailed via Block Island, R.I., for Key West where she arrived on 19 October to commence antisubmarine warfare evaluation and to provide target services to the Operational Development Force's Surface Antisubmarine Development Detachment. Albacore was decommissioned on 9 December 1972 and laid up at Philadelphia. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 1 May 1980, and she was towed back to Portsmouth late in April 1984. In 1985, she was dedicated as a memorial.

[Taken from the entry on Albacore in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.]