My father was a missile fire control officer aboard the USS Providence, but that one was a surface vessel during Vietnam. It must have taken a bad hit during t

My father was a missile fire control officer aboard the USS Providence, but that one was a surface vessel during Vietnam. It must have taken a bad hit during the war, because one day while driving across the Benecia Bridge in the east San Francisco Bay Area, Dad spotted her in the mothball fleet. He brought our car to a complete stop then sat quietly staring at her for some time, to remember and to reflect. He later worked as a civil service EE at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo. He said something once about submarines being named for carnivorous fish but maybe that was a recent convention.