USS Sam Houston (SSBN-609)

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The Sam Houston at Pearl Harbor
The Sam Houston at Pearl Harbor
Overview
Order July 1, 1959
Keel laying December 28, 1959
Launch 2nd February 1961
1. Period of service flag
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

Commons : USS Sam Houston  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files