USS Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602)

Immersed 6800 ts

116.3 m

10.1 m

8.8 meters

12 officers, 128 sailors

S5W pressurized water reactor, 15,000 SHP

20 knots

16 ICBMs, 6 torpedo tubes

The USS Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602) was a missile submarine of the United States Navy. She was a member of the George Washington class. It is named after was the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.

History

The Lincoln was laid in 1958 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kiel and went there in 1960 by the stack. The official commissioning ceremony was held in 1961.

After some tests and a short dockyard time (post - shakedown availability ) moved the Lincoln in October 1961, after Holy Loch, Scotland, from where they drove their first patrols to deter. During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the Lincoln was in the middle of a standard four-week Instandhaltungesperiode when she received orders to sail. All work was stopped and the boat went on another 65 -day ride. On October 13, 1965, the Lincoln reached the first time in American waters, they ran into the shipyard of Electric Boat, where she was completely overhauled in almost two years, equipped with a new nuclear fuel and converted to the UGM -27 Polaris A3.

After the boat returned to Holy Loch and went to 1972 from there. This year, the Lincoln was assigned to the Pacific Fleet, but was first overtaken in Iceland Mare Naval Shipyard in turn. Following Pearl Harbor became the new home port. However, the Lincoln from the advanced port Apra Harbor on Guam was used out. In 1977, the Abraham Lincoln was the first SSBN ever her 50th patrol by.

In October 1979, the Abraham Lincoln was shut down in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, where she was decommissioned in 1981 and finally canceled as part of the Ship - Submarine Recycling Program.