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Home Town Marlette, Michigan
Last Address 11311 Kluttz Rd Gold Hill, NC 28071
Date of Passing Sep 07, 2016
Location of Interment Buried at Sea, Atlantic Ocean
RILEY, Roy G. “Luke”, CAPT, USN, Ret., 78, of Gold Hill, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016 at his home. Born Jan. 3, 1938 in Marlette, Mich., he was the son of the late Wilmont John “Mike” and Joyce Cripps Riley. He was a 1956 graduate of Marlette High School, a 1960 graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and a 1967 graduate of the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Montery, Calif., with a master's degree in management. He served in the United States submarine force aboard five submarines - USS Sea Poacher (SS-406), USS Nathan Hale (SSBN-623)(G), USS Albacore (AGSS-569), USS Wahoo (SS-565) and commanded the USS Bonefish (SS-582) from Sept. 1972 to Sept. 1974, followed by duty Submarine Chief of Staff in Guam. He was trained in both the Polaris/Poseidon navigation and missile weapons systems and was a team leader certifying crews for missile launch at Cape Canaveral, Fla. From 1976-1986 he was assigned Director Naval Intelligence at the Pentagon as Project Officer for a special submarine program and was also Director Naval Intelligence R+D Programs and Director Intelligence Budget Division. In 1986, he retired as Captain, USN. Upon retirement he was a Mt. Pleasant High School bus driver and substitute teacher for 12 years. He was also a self-employed handyman and he loved to hunt and fish with his sons. He is survived by his wife, Linda Cline Riley, whom he married Feb. 1, 1974daughter Katrina and husband Karl Wolff of Baldwinsville, N.Y.sons, Clay Riley of Springfield, Va. and Lance Riley of Charlotte; grandsons, Scott Wolff and Sean Brazel; granddaughters, Sharon Wolff, Murphy Riley, Taylor Riley and Casey Riley; brothers, Joe Riley and wife Carole of Montriss, Va. and Rex and Dottie Riley of Harrisburg, Pa.
NEC 112X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Submarine Warfare
Base, Station or City Pearl Harbor
State/Country Hawaii
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USS Bonefish (SS-582) Details
USS Bonefish (SS-582) was the second submarine to bear the name Bonefish. She was named to honor the USS Bonefish (SS-223) which was lost while on patrol in June 1945.
Bonefish is the third ship of the Barbel class of conventionally powered attack submarines; the last ones built by the United States.
Bonefish was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, NJ. Her keel was laid June 3, 1957 and was commissioned July 9, 1959.
Bonefish was originally designed and configured to be a missile guidance control unit as a part of the Regulus program. Following the phase out of the Regulus program the Bonefish was converted to an attack submarine whose primary job is anti-submarine warfare.
Keel Laid: 06/03/1957
Launched; 11/22/1958
Commissioned: 07/09/1959
Decommissioned: 09/28/1988
Struck from the Naval Register: 02/28/1989
Final Disposition: 08/17/1989 - sold for scrapping
Periscope depth:
#1 scope - 59'9"
#2 scope - 63'9"
Normal complement: 8 officers, 80 enlisted men
Armament:
6 - torpedo tubes
equipped to fire Mk 14, Mk 16, Mk 37, Mk 48, Mk 45 and various mines
Propulsion:
2 - Westinghouse Main Motors on a single shaft
1 - 5 blade propeller
3 - Fairbanks Morse 38ND 8 1/8 engines coupled to
3 - General Electric Main Generators (each supplying940 KW)
Power generating:
2 - main storage batteries (each battery had 252 cells) supplying a nominal 500 VDC
3 - General Electric Main Generators supplying 940KW each.
3 - 75 KVA MG sets supplying 120V 60hz power
2 - 25 KVA MG sets supplying 120V 400hz power
Commanding Officers:
LCDR E. H. Kiehl July 1959 - June 1960
LCDR J. W. James June 1960 - June 1962
LCDR P. C. Keenan June 1962 - January 1964
LCDP J. P. Leahy January 1964 - July 1966
CDR R.R. Gavazzi July 1966 - July 1968
CDR J. W. Blanchard July 1968 - August 1970
CDR D. F. Greenhoe August 1970 - September 1972
CDR R. G. Riley September 1972 - September 1974
LCDR L. L. Lubbs September 1974 - June 1976
LCDR J. R. McCleary June 1976 - April 1978
CDR R. A. Killion April 1978 - May 1980
CDR M. C. Current May 1980 - May 1982
CDR M. G. Ralston May 1982 - April 1984
CDR J. F. Struble April 1984 - July 1986
LCDR J. Toney July 1986 - March 1988
LCDR M. Wilson March 1988 - April 1988
