USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619)

Immersed 8250 ts

129.5 m

10.1 m

9.6 m

13 officers and 107 men

A S5W reactor

30 nodes

4533 -mm torpedo tubes, 16 ICBMs

The USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619) was a nuclear submarine of the United States Navy and was a member of the Lafayette class. It was named after the seventh U.S. president, Andrew Jackson.

History

SSBN -619 was given in 1960 in order, in April 1961, the keel-laying ceremony took place, was Shipyard Mare Iceland Naval Shipyard. In September 1962, the boat was launched and was baptized by Nancy Kefauver, the wife of U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver. On July 3, 1963, Jackson was put into service.

Through the Panama Canal, the submarine entered then into the Atlantic Ocean, leading from the port of Cape Canaveral, Florida by first rides. On the 1st and 11th of October they fired successfully from two test missiles of the type UGM - 27B Polaris A2, on October 26, she fired the first unit dipped the development UGM - 27C Polaris A3 from. On November 16, U.S. President John F. Kennedy attended a test launch of a A2, in the dockyard was followed by a period in the Charleston Naval Shipyard.

In April 1964, Andrew Jackson was the Submarine Squadron 16 assigned to 1973 and moved to the forward base in Rota, Spain. On March 19, 1973, she returned to local waters since it was converted in the shipyard of Electric Boat on the more modern missile UGM -73 Poseidon. From 1977, she was stationed in Holy Loch, Scotland, from where they went to 1987. Overall, between SSBN -619 by 69 patrols on nuclear deterrence. On 31 August 1989, the submarine was decommissioned and dismantled in 1999 in the Ship- Submarine Recycling Program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.