One thing that a young Marine named John Kroger remembered best about his brief stay aboard the submarine USS Blueback was the food. "Just spectacular," said that young Marine, who now is Oregon's ...

It's the USS Blueback, a U.S. Navy submarine now permanently docked in the Willamette River, which one Reddit post by u/cubanthistlecrisis described as "eerie and beautiful." The U.S. military is ...

“It scared the heck out of me.” It’s those Cold War-era experiences that make Manzer, 60, a unique guide for the USS Blueback submarine permanently stationed at the Oregon Museum of Science ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- For former Naval officer John Towle, it's nice to be back on the USS Blueback. The submarine was built in 1959 and decommissioned in 1990 before it was donated to OMSI.

The USS Blueback served in the Navy's Pacific Fleet for 31 years and made the longest-ever submerged voyage by a diesel/electric submarine, traveling 5,340 miles from Yokosuka, Japan, to San Diego.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: During her thirty-one years in service with the U.S. Navy, USS Blueback participated in Pacific Fleet operations, which included a transiting of the Panama Canal.

Yet, it had been only a few years earlier that the Navy retired and decommissioned the USS Blueback (SS-581). Laid down by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation of Pascagoula, Mississippi in April 1957 ...

The USS Blueback makes its home at OMSI along the east bank of the Willamette River, ready to torpedo any seaborne, er, riverborne assaults at a moment’s notice. Well, maybe more than a moment ...