USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608)

Immersed 7900 ts

125.1 meters

10.1 meters

9.1 meters

12 officers, 128 sailors

S5W pressurized water reactor, 15,000 SHP

20 knots

16 ICBMs, 4 torpedo tubes

The USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608) was a nuclear submarine and the lead ship of the Ethan Allen class of United States Navy. It was named after Ethan Allen, a freedom fighter from the time of the American War of Independence, named.

History

SSBN -608 was commissioned in 1958. On September 14, 1959, the boat at Electric Boat was placed on Kiel. After a construction period of just over a year it was launched, and was christened by Mrs. Robert H. Hopkins, a descendant of Allen. In August 1961, the Ethan Allen could be put into service.

On May 6, 1962, the Ethan Allen fired as part of Operation Dominic from a nuclear missile. The Frigate Bird baptized test was the only test of a fully interoperable Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile in the history of the U.S. Navy.

After the boat was initially stationed in Europe, it was moved to the occurrence of the boats of the Lafayette- class in the 1970s in the Pacific. There, operated the Ethan Allen, until it was reclassified to the hunting submarine SSN -608 on 1 September 1980 after the Convention SALT I and was mainly used in anti-submarine exercises.

1983, Allen was finally decommissioned and broken up in 1999 in the Ship- Submarine Recycling Program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.

Ethan Allen in movie and book

In Tom Clancy's novel The Hunt for Red October, the Ethan Allen plays an important role. Integument is burst asunder in the book under water to simulate the sinking of the eponymous Soviet SSBNs. In the same film, however it does not occur.