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USS William H. Bates (SSN-680)
USS ''William H. Bates'' (SSN-680), a ''Sturgeon''-class attack submarine, was planned to be the second U.S. Navy ship to be named USS ''Redfish''—for the redfish, a variety of salmon also called blueback, sawqui, red salmon, and nerka—when the contract to build her was awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on 25 June 1968. However, upon the 22 June 1969 death of William H. Bates (1917–1969), the U.S. Representative from Massachusetts's 6th Congressional District (1950–1969) known for his staunch support of nuclear propulsion in the U.S. Navy, she was renamed ''William H. Bates'' and was laid down on 4 August 1969 as the only ship of the U.S. Navy to have borne the name. The reason for her naming by then-Secretary of the Navy John Chafee, breaking with a long-standing Navy tradition of naming U.S. Navy attack submarines for sea creatures, was best summed up by Admiral Hyman Rickover, the then-director of the Navy's nuclear reactors program, with the pithy comment that, "Fish don't vote!"〔"Delaware's Namesake Submarine Was A Long Time Coming," Wilmington (Delaware) News Journal, 20 Nov 2012〕
==Construction and commissioning==
The contract to build ''Redfish'' was awarded on 25 June 1968, and she had been renamed ''William H. Bates'' by the time her keel was laid on 4 August 1969 by Ingalls Shipbuilding. She was launched on 11 December 1971, sponsored by Mrs. Andrew R. Grainger, and commissioned on 5 May 1973 with Commander Glenn N. Arthur, Jr., in command.
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