USS Sam Houston (SSBN-609)
 The Sam Houston at Pearl Harbor |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | July 1, 1959 |
| Keel laying | December 28, 1959 |
| Launch | 2nd February 1961 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | March 6, 1962 |
| Decommissioning | September 6, 1991 |
| Whereabouts | Disassembled |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
7900 ts submerged |
| length |
125.1 meters |
| width |
10.1 meters |
| Draft |
9.1 meters |
| crew |
12 officers, 128 sailors |
| drive |
S5W pressurized water reactor, 15,000 SHP |
| speed |
20 knots |
| Armament |
16 ICBMs, 4 torpedo tubes |
The USS Sam Houston (SSBN-609) was an Ethan Allen-class nuclear submarine of the United States Navy . It was named after Sam Houston , President of the Republic of Texas .
history
SSBN-609 was commissioned in 1959 and was laid down at Newport News Shipbuilding later that year . After a construction period of just over a year, it was launched and was christened by Mrs. John B. Connally. In March 1962 the Sam Houston could be put into service.
The first rockets were launched from the boat on April 25 after the end of the test drives. First trips took the Houston repeatedly to Holy Loch , Scotland. Her third voyage in 1963 was the first of a boomer in the Mediterranean, where she also moored in Izmir , Turkey. After seventeen patrols, the boat returned to the US for the first time in 1966 and was overhauled at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard . In 1968 the Sam Houston was relocated to Holy Loch, and in 1970 to Rota , Spain.
Another overhaul and modernization of the missile complex in the Charleston Navy Yard followed in 1972 . The submarine then operated from Guam and Pearl Harbor .
In 1981 the boat's missile complex was deactivated due to the restrictions of SALT I , the boat was reclassified as the SSN-609 hunting submarine . By 1985, it took mainly on anti-submarine Exercises in part, then in were Puget Sound Naval Shipyard , the means for transporting a dry deck shelter installed, which from aboard the Houston secret US Navy SEALs could be suspended.
In 1991 the boat was finally decommissioned and scrapped in the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program until 1992 .
Web links
- San Houston in DANFS (Engl.)