USS Lapon (SSN-661)

March 1985 - September 1988

Lapon Memorial Dedication, Springfield, MO – July 2005
 
Change of Command, March 28, 1985
Indian Ocean Deployment, May 15 – December 9, 1985
  • Brief stop for personnel transfer Ascension Island, 5/28
  • Inchop
  • Brief stop Mombassa, Kenya, 6/12
  • ORSE
  • Upkeep Diego Garcia, 7/31 – 9/1
  • Brief stop Diego Garcia, 10/23 – 10/24
  • Port visit Perth, Western Australia, 10/31- 11/7
  • Actor Jack Klugman visits ship, 11/1
  • Port visit Pago Pago, American Samoa, 11/19 – 11/23
  • Panama Canal Transit, 12/6/85
  • Return to Norfolk, 12/9/8
 
Deployed North Atlantic, 8/21 -10/14, 1986
Seal Training Operations PROAS (Puerto Rican Op Areas), 12/5 – 12/18, 1986
LANTSUBASWEX 1/13 – 4/21, 1987
  • Port visit Denhelder, Netherlands, 3/19 – 3/27
  • Brief Stop Portsmouth, UK, 3/28/ – 3/30
  • Port visit Holy Lock, 4/2 – 4/9
 
SRA (Selected Restricted Availability), 6/18 – 8/18, 1987
FLEETEX (Fleet Exercises), 8/20 – 8/26, 1987
Steam Generator Inspection, 9/7 – 11/04, 1987
Services PROAS (Puerto Rico Operating Areas), 11/7 – 11/25, 1987
ICEX Deployment 3/19 – 6/14, 1988
  • Brief stop Holy Lock, Scotland, 3/23 – 3/28
  • Port visit Haakonsvern, Norway 5/24 – 5/29
 
Midshipmen Operations
Change of Command, 9/2/1988
USS Lapon Inactivation Ceremony – 8/17/1991
Lapon Memorial Dedication and Reunion, July 2-3, 2005