U.S.S. Birmingham SSN 695 Commissioned Dec. 16, 1978
Built by Northrop Grumman Newport News
This site was created on: February 1996. Site updated 1/1/2007
The Birmingham domain web site name www.ssn695.org has been paid for by the generous donation of my ex boss Jon Herrell. Thank you so much for the funds you donated to maintain the domain name for the next 9 years. You will now always be able to find info about the USS Birmingham by looking on the internet for www.ssn695.org.
B-Ham REUNION November 7th and 8th 2008 Orlando Florida
Harry Maier RC Div 83-86 has set up blocks of rooms in Orlando for November 7th and 8th the rates are also good 3 days before and after these dates. Please contact Harry after you make a reservation at harrym695@aol.com so he can keep track of who is coming.
Two hotels have been set up the main hotel we are meeting at is the Clarion Main Gate (non smoking hotel) rates $59.95 and $69.95 call 407-396-4000 and mention your with the Birmingham reunion (http://www.clarionhotelmaingate.com/). The second hotel which is a smoking hotel is the Radisson Harry set up a block of 5 rooms for $69.00 call 407-369-1400 ask for Heather or Valerie.
I want to thank Harry for taking this on and setting up the hard part. Now we need to get our butts in gear and decide to go. And also if we go we need to decide if we are going to pull together stuff to display. I have some things to bring I'm sure others do also. It would be great to have a power point slide show of pictures to display. I could do that or if someone else is more talented have at it. I do NOT have a projector for my computer. Also it would be easy to have the computer play music via iTunes, I'm sure I could get my hands on appropriate tunes and others could donate also.
So there are many generations that will show up also I hope we don't alienate crew groups that don't have a large showing, ie clicks. Lets make this great for everyone who wants to show up. That is why I didn't go to the Seadragon reunion 10 years ago. No one on my crew showed up. So we need to talk to each other and encourage folks to show. Sue and I may make a long weekend or so out of this and also visit our daughter so use any excuse you can.
Time to get going here guys.
Charlie Kutterer (Chaz) TM2 78-80 Plankowner
| LENGTH : 362 FEET | ||||||||
| BEAM : 33 FEET | ||||||||
| DISPLACEMENT : 6,900 TONS (SUBMERGED) | ||||||||
| SPEED (MAX) : 25+ KNOTS | ||||||||
| DEPTH (MAX) : 800+ FEET | ||||||||
| ARMAMENT : FOUR TORPEDO TUBES Torpedo Room complement of: | ||||||||
BUILDER : , Virginia| KEEL LAID : April 26, 1975 | LAUNCHED : October 29, 1977 | SPONSOR : Mrs. Maryon P. Allen | COMMISSIONED : December 16, 1978 | COMPLEMENT : 14 Officers and 127 Enlisted | INACTIVATED : March 27, 1997 | DECOMMISSIONED : December 22, 1997 | STRICKEN : December 23, 1997 | |
USS Birmingham (SSN-695) Shipmates List (This is a Yahoo Group Site)
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Birmingham had earned three Meritorious Unit Commendations, a Navy Unit Commendation, three Battle "E"s, an Engineering "E", two supply "E"s, a Communication "C", a Damage control "DC", and an Anti-Submarine Warfare "A"
Let us remember in our prayers our departed shipmate DK Walters and Tom Pashko. If anyone knows of another shipmate who has passed and not listed please email me. Don't use the guest book.
New York Mini Reunion June 21 2003.
What's New. THE FIRST MED CRUISEand The Commissioning book.
The link below will take you to my yahoo/geocities site. There I am creating basically a photo album of things I have or that shipmates provide. In the near future most photoswill reside there.
The Birmingham is inactivated as of MARCH 27, 1997
I do not have the plankowner plaque that was hanging in crews mess. That was suppose to go with the last plankowner who left the Birmingham. I was told that Hap Clark was the last Plankowner to leave B'ham.
I did get the Torpedomens Div. plankowner plaque since I wasthe last TM plankowner to leave. I understand that all divisions had a plaque made by the shipyard workers mine is brass and not real fancy, looks like it was engraved with a nail. It should have the names of the guys in that div.
DIVEDIVE Sound file in WAV format!
The captains (Paul Callahan) explanation of the blow.
Index of this web site!
| USS Birmingham Info/History. | The Birmingham commissioning crew info and history from the commissioning book. |
| USS Birmingham Crew News. | News about the boat emailed to me over the years. |
| Captains of the Birmingham. | A list of the captains of the Birmingham and their pictures, if available. By the way I haven't kept up with any updates to this. So if you have them email me please. |
| Birmingham Status News | This is a page from the old web site Rick Penza created from information provided by crew-mates about the status of the Birmingham in the last couple of years or her life. |
| Shipmate Stuff!! | Various Pic's and info about the Birmingham's recent history. |
| Sea stories. | Sea stories, poems and memories of the crew members. |
| JOKES!!. | Jokes sent in by crew members. |
| Inactivation Feedback. | These are email reports back to me on the inactivation in Pearl Harbor. |
| Inactivation Pictures. | Pictures taken by Bill Rath of the inactivation. |
| The inactivation and official pics. | This is a reconfigured page of the one ComSubPac had up. I put it up here so we wont lose the photos and story when they take it off there site. |
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Other Navy or Submarine Web Sites:
| USS Seadragon SSN 584 | The first Submarine I served on and earned my dolphins. It made the historic transit of the fabled Northwest Passage on 21 August 1960. |
| Navy Submarine Base by Ron Martini's. | The ultimate submarine web site, a must visit site. With a bulletin board. |
| US Navy Online. | The web site for the US Navy. |
| U.S. SUBMARINES, INC. | A company engaged in the design, engineering and construction of submarines and manned submersibles for commercial applications, marine science research, tourism and personal luxury use. |
| Veterans Admin. | Department of Veterans Affairs. |
| Northrop Grumman Newport News | It was known back in the day as Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. The place Birmingham was born. Good site by the way. Good info on the Yorktown also. |
| The Submarine League. | Members are those individuals who want to keep alive the submarine past, help with present submarine problems and be influential in guiding the future of submarines in the U.S. Navy. |
| WWW I U-Boats. | A web site about World War One U-Boats. |
| SUBMARINESAILOR.COM | Check this out, a listing of all Submarines and Crew. |
| Veterans Center for Life Stories Preservation. | A site that is collecting veterans stories to preserve them. |
Site created by Rick Penza and Charlie Kutterer, Rick Penza is a plankowner and ex - ELT, he is, for now taking a leave of absence from web site management. Hope he is back soon.
I am Charlie Kutterer ex TM2(ss), and plankowner of the Birmingham, present web site manager.
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Rick Penza Email address: EMAIL