USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619)
The Andrew Jackson at sea in 1995 |
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Overview | |
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Order | July 23, 1960 |
Keel laying | April 26, 1961 |
Launch | September 15, 1962 |
1. Period of service | |
Commissioning | 3rd July 1963 |
Decommissioning | August 31, 1989 |
Whereabouts | Canceled |
Technical specifications | |
displacement |
8250 ts submerged |
length |
129.5 m |
width |
10.1 m |
Draft |
9.6 m |
crew |
13 officers and 107 men |
drive |
A S5W reactor |
speed |
30+ knots |
Armament |
4 533 mm torpedo tubes , 16 ICBMs |
The USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619) was a nuclear-powered submarine of the United States Navy and was part of the Lafayette-class at. It was named after the seventh US President Andrew Jackson .
history
SSBN-619 was commissioned in 1960, the keel was laid in April 1961, the shipyard was Mare Island Naval Shipyard . In September 1962 the boat was launched and was christened by Nancy Kefauver, wife of US Senator Estes Kefauver . On July 3, 1963, the Jackson was put into service.
The submarine then entered the Atlantic through the Panama Canal and made its first voyages from the port of Cape Canaveral , Florida . On October 1 and 11, it successfully shot down two UGM-27B Polaris A2 test missiles , and on October 26, it was the first submerged unit to fire the further development of the UGM-27C Polaris A3. On November 16, US President John F. Kennedy attended a test launch of an A2, which was followed by a layover in the Charleston Naval Shipyard .
In April 1964, the Andrew Jackson was assigned to Submarine Squadron 16 and moved to the advanced base in Rota , Spain until 1973 . On March 19, 1973, she returned to domestic waters as she was converted to the more modern UGM-73 Poseidon missile in the Electric Boat shipyard . From 1977 she was stationed in Holy Loch , Scotland, from where she drove until 1987. In total, SSBN-619 conducted 69 nuclear deterrent patrols . On August 31, 1989, the submarine was decommissioned and dismantled in 1999 in the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard .
Web links
- Andrew Jackson in DANFS (Engl.)
- Images on navsource.org ( Memento from December 17, 2003 in the Internet Archive )