| Year | Date | Historical Events |
| 1952 | Feb 27 | Contract awarded to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME. |
| 1954 | Mar 10 | Keel laid down by the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME. |
| 1956 | Feb 25 | Launched. |
| | Aug 25 | Commissioned with LCDR. Robert R. Hale in command. Salmon conducted her shakedown cruise between 19 February and 10 May 1957, ranging from Newport, RI., to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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| 1957 | Jul 25 | Salmon arrived at her home port, San Diego, CA., after transiting the Panama Canal and visiting Callao, Peru. She conducted local operations in Southern California waters, as a unit of Submarine Division 33. |
| | Sep 23 | Salmon departed San Diego, CA. to join the 7th Fleet. |
| | Oct 19 | Salmon joined the 7th Fleet off Southern Japan. For the remainder of the year she participated in fleet training exercises and special operations, with port calls at Yokosuka, Japan; Hong Kong; Manila and Subic Bay, Philippines; and Kaohsiung, Taiwan. |
| 1958 | Mar 31 | Salmon departed Yokosuka, Japan. |
| | Apr 19 | Salmon returned to San Diego, CA. |
| 1959 | Jan 6 | Salmon underwent overhaul and limited conversion at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA. |
| | Jul 17 | Salmon departed San Diego for Pearl Harbor, HI. for missile guidance training, then proceeded to Japan to join the 7th Fleet. |
| 1960 | Feb 14 | Salmon returned to San Diego, CA., where she operated locally, with occasional visits to San Francisco, CA,, Astoria, OR., Tacoma, WA., Port Angeles, WA., and Esquimault, British Columbia. |
| 1961 | Mar 1 | Salmon was reclassified as an attacxk submarine and given the hull classification symbol SS-573. |
| | Nov 1 | Salmon was reassigned to SubDiv 52. |
| 1962 | Jun 1 | Salmon departed San Diego, CA. for her 3rd WestPac deployment. |
| | Dec 20 | Salmon returned to San Diego, CA. and became the flagship of Submarine Foltilla 1. |
| 1964 | Jun 3 | Salmon put into the San Francisco Naval Shipyard to undergo FRAM II conversion. |
| 1965 | Apr 19 | Salmon departed from the San Francisco Naval Shipyard as a modernized "Guppy III", for sound trials in Puget Sound, WA. |
| | May 4 | Salmon returned to San Diego, CA. to resume local operations. |
| | Aug 23 | Salmon departed on her 4th WestPac deployment. |
| | Sep 14 | Salmon joined Submarine Flotilla 7 of the Seventh Fleet and conducted operations in Japanese and Southwest Pacific waters. |
| 1966 | Apr 20 | Salmon returned to San Diego, CA. |
| 1967 | Mar 20 | Salmon departed on her 5th WestPac deployment, providing services to the 7th Fleet units operating off Vietnam in support of operations to counter communist aggression in Southeast Asia. |
| | Sep 1 | Salmon rendezvoused with ballistic missile submarines Ulysses S. Grant (SSBN-631) and Kamehameha (SSBN-642) somewhere in the Pacific, to act as a simulated target sub for training in antisubmarine tactics. |
| 1968 | Apr 1 | Salmon underwent overhaul in San Francisco, CA. in preparation for support of the Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle (DSRV) program, to evaluate submarine rescue and salvage equipment at extreme depths. |
| | Jun 1 | Salmon was reassigned AGSS-573 for her role as mother sub and underway submerged launching and recovery paltform for the experimental mini-subs. |
| | Oct 25 | Salmon departed for her 6th WestPac deployment. She conducted special operations off the coast of Vietnam and participated in SEATO exercises out of Sangley Point in the Philippines. |
| 1969 | Apr 5 | Salmon departed Yokosuka, Japan for San Diego, CA. |
| | Apr 25 | Salmon arrived at San Diego, CA. |
| | Jun 30 | Salmon resumed her former designation of SS-573. |
| 1970 | Jan 3 | Salmon departed San Diego, CA. for her 7th WestPac tour, conducting type training in the Philippines with submarine Harder (SS-568) and her sister sub, Sailfish (SS-572). From there, she visited Buckner Bay, Okinawa; Bangkok, Thailand; Sasebo & Yokosuka. |
| 1972 | Feb 17 | Salmon departed San Diego, CA. on her 8th WestPac deployment. She resuced survivors from the Japanese coastal freigher Koei Maru #2 which sank about 30 miles South of the entrance to Tokyo Bay. |
| | Aug 13 | Salmon departed Pago Pago. |
| | Aug 26 | Salmon returned to San Diego, CA and reamined on the West Coast till May 1973. |
| 1973 | Jun 16 | Departed on 9th WestPac deployment, but due to damage to her number and 4 main engines, she sailed back to San Diego, CA. |
| | Nov 17 | Salmon entered the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA., for overhaul. |
| 1977 | Oct 1 | Salmon was decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register. |
| 1992 | Jan 1 | Salmon was converted to a shallow water sonar target and sunk near Hudson Canyon, South of Long Island, as a bottom target on 5 June 1993.
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