Service History
In 1980, Hawkbill completed a scheduled overhaul of her reactor core at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton, Washington, with her crew berthed at Naval Submarine Base Bangor at Bangor, Washington. After sea trials and sound trials and port visits to Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada; Alameda, California; and San Diego, California, Hawkbill returned to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, commanded by Fredric Crawford.
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In 1982, Hawkbill made a Western Pacific cruise with stops at Yokosuka, Japan; Subic Bay, the Philippines; Hong Kong; and Guam.
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In early 1984, Hawkbill deployed to the Arctic under the command of George Roletter, undertaking an 87-day excursion under the polar ice cap which ended with a visit to Chinhae, South Korea. She also made weekend dependent cruises from Pearl Harbor to Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, during 1984.
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Hawkbill was decommissioned on 15 March 2000, the last of the "short-hull" Sturgeon-class attack submarinees to be decommissioned, and that same day both was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register and entered the Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for scrapping. Her scrapping was completed on 1 December 2000.
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