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| Year | Date | Historical Events | | 1952 | May 1 | Keel laid down by the Electric Boat Co., Groton, CT. | | 1953 | Oct 14 | Launched. | | | Nov 20 | Commissioned with LT. Edward Holt in command.
| | 1954 | Jan 20 | After shakedown in the Massachusetts Bay area, T-2, one of the smallest operational submarines ever built for the Navy, got underway from New London, CT. for her home port of Key West, FL. | | | Jan 20 | (Cont'd.) T-2 began operations in the sector from southern Florida to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. For a decade and a half she performed valuable service as a target and training ship and has helped to evaluate submarine and antisubmarine equipment and tactics. | | 1956 | Mar 7 | From 7 March to 4 April, T-2 joined her sister ship, T-1 (now Mackerel), Amberjack (SS-522), Batfish (SS-310), and Chivo (SS-341), along with a task force under Commander, Mine Force, in participating in mine warfare maneuvers. | | | May 15 | Renamed Marlin, she deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for services to the Fleet Training Group in January 1956, July and August 1958, March 1960, and December 1961. | | 1963 | Mar 1 | Marlin participated in the NSIA demonstration. From 1963 she performed mainly target duty for both surface and air antisubmarine units out of Key West.
| | 1973 | Jan 31 | Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register. | | 2008 | Sep 30 | Marlin is on display as a memorial submarine in Freedom Park at the Greater Omaha Marina at 2000 North 25th Street, in Omaha, Nebraska.
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