USS Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-658)
 The Mariano G. Vallejo off Mare Island, 1966 |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | August 8, 1963 |
| Keel laying | July 7, 1964 |
| Launch | October 23, 1965 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | December 16, 1966 |
| Decommissioning | March 9, 1995 |
| 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 Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-658) was a nuclear submarine of the United States Navy and belonged to the Lafayette class , more precisely to the Benjamin Franklin subclass . The boat was a so-called Ship Submersible Ballistic Nuclear , a submarine specially designed for launching ICBMs . It was named after Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo .
history
SSBN-658 was commissioned in 1963 and laid down at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in 1964 . In 1965 the boat was launched and was christened, godmother was Patricia OV McGettigan, a descendant of Vallejo. At the end of 1966 the Mariano G. Vallejo was put into service.
The submarine was stationed in Pearl Harbor , Hawaii, in 1967 , and has been on regular nuclear deterrent patrols from there in the years that followed. The boat was later relocated to the Atlantic and modernized so that it could shoot down the Trident I. In 1987, the Vallejo completed the 2,500th deterrent patrol of the US Navy submarine fleet.
In 1995 the Mariano G. Vallejo was decommissioned and then canceled in the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard . Only the tower of the boat was preserved, brought to the site of the Mare Island shipyard, which is located near the town of Vallejo , which is also named after Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, and exhibited there. Although the shipyard closed in 1996, the tower is still there.
Web links
- Mariano G. Vallejo in DANFS (Engl.)