USS Blueback SS-581 (Portland, Oregon)
- Title
- USS Blueback SS-581 (Portland, Oregon)
- LC Subject
- Architecture, American Architecture--United States
- Creator
- United States. Navy Ingalls Shipbuilding
- Creator Display
- United States Navy (builder/contractor) Ingalls Ship Building (builder/contractor)
- Description
- National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 2009) National Register of Historic Places Registration Form
- Provenance
- University of Oregon Libraries
- Temporal
- 1950-1959
- Work Type
- memorials (structures) monuments museums (buildings) history museums (buildings) military museums (buildings) naval museums (buildings) vehicles (transportation) watercraft submarines plans (orthographic projections) plans, floor
- Latitude
- 45.508344
- Longitude
- -122.66596
- Location
- Portland >> Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States Oregon >> United States United States
- Street Address
- 1495 Water Avenue, located on the east bank of the Willamette
- Date
- 1959
- Identifier
- mult_portland_ussblueback.pdf
- Rights
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- Source
- Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/SHPO/
- Type
- Image
- Format
- application/pdf
- Set
- Building Oregon
- Primary Set
- Building Oregon
- Is Part Of
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (Portland, Oregon)
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Citation
- USS Blueback, National Register of Historic Places Nomination National Register of Historic Places, http://www.nps.gov/nr
- Note
- Commissioned in 1959, the USS Blueback (SS-581) is nationally significant for its engineering as the last surviving example of a Barbel Class submarine. Only consisting of three ships, the Barbell class combined proven WWII-era diesel-electric motor technology with a revolutionary tear-drop hull shape, high-strength steel, and other improvements that were incorporated into later submarine designs. The technological advance was driven by the transition in submarine warfare from the older Fleet Boat system to the modern nuclear-powered vessels of the Cold War. However, the Blueback and her sister ships were a transitional design. After independently studying nuclear power in the Nautilus test ship and the tear-drop hull shape with the Albacore test submarine and the active-duty Barbell Class, these technologies were later combined to create the modern nuclear submarines used by the U.S. Navy from the Cold War to the present. As the last diesel-electric submarine to join the US Navy and t
