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| Year | Date | Historical Events | | 1964 | Dec 18 | Contract awarded to the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA. | | 1966 | Sep 12 | Keel laid down by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA. | | 1969 | Apr 12 | Launched. | | 1971 | Feb 4 | Commissioned. | | | Feb 4 | Recommissioned. | | 1980 | Jun 1 | Hawkbill completed overhaul at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA. After sea trials and sound trials and port visits to Nanaimo, BC; Alameda, CA; and San Diego, CA.,, Hawkbill surfaced off Waikiki Beach at her new homeport, Pearl Harbor, HI. | | 1982 | Jan 1 | Hawkbill participated in weekly ops, and a Western Pacific cruise with multiple stops in Yokosuka, Japan; Subic Bay, Philippines; Hong Kong, China and Guam, Marianas Island. | | 1984 | Jan 1 | Hawkbill undertook an under the ice excursion of 87 days with a visit to Chin Hae, South Korea at the end. The Captain on these voyages was George Roletter. There were dependent cruises for the weekend to Lahaina, Maui during the year.
| | 2000 | Mar 15 | Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register. | | | Dec 1 | Hawkbill entered the Navy's Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., and on 1 December 2000, ceased to exist. Her sail is exhibited in the Idaho Science Center in Arco, Idaho.
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