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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. USS Tautog
(SSN-639), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine, was the second ship of the
United States Navy to be named for the tautog, a small, edible, sport
fish, also called blackfish or oysterfish, found on the Atlantic coast
of the United States. The contract to build Tautog was awarded to
Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on 30 November 1961 and
her keel was laid down there on 27 January 1964. She was launched on 15
April 1967, sponsored by Pauline Lafon Gore, wife of United States
Senator Albert Gore, Sr. (1907-1998) of Tennessee, and commissioned on
17 August 1968 with Commander Buele G. Balderston in command.
