USS Francis Scott Key (SSBN-657)

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 Francis Scott Key (SSBN-657) was a nuclear submarine of the Lafayette class and was a member of the subclass of Benjamin Franklin. The boat was a so-called Ship Submersible Ballistic Nuclear, a submarine designed specifically for the launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles. It was named after the poet of the American national anthem The Star- Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key, named.

History

SSBN -657 was commissioned on 1963 at Electric Boat in order and placed there in late 1964 at Kiel. After only about four and a half months, the boat was launched and was baptized; Godparents were two descendants Keys, Mrs. Marjory Key Thorne and Mrs. William T. Jarvis. On December 3, 1966, Francis Scott Key was commissioned in the United States Navy.

The key was stationed in Charleston, South Carolina. After tests were carried out and a test launch of a UGM - 27C Polaris A3 was launched in June 1967, the first Abschreckungspatroullie the boat. Then the boat was used in the advanced bases in Rota, Spain and Holy Loch, Scotland out. 1972/73 the boat in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard was converted to shoot the new UGM -73 Poseidon can. 1978 was followed by the upgrade to the UGM - 93A Trident I. The Francis Scott Key in 1979 was the first boat that went with the new intercontinental ballistic missile on patrol. In 1983, an overhaul in the Newport News Shipbuilding.

On 2 September 1993, Key was decommissioned and moored in Puget Sound. In 1995, the U- boat in the Ship- Submarine Recycling Program has been canceled.