USS John Marshall (SSBN-611)

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 John Marshall (SSBN-611) was a nuclear submarine of the Ethan Allen class of the United States Navy. It was named after John Marshall, the Chief Justice of the United States from 1801 to 1835, named.

History

SSBN -611 was commissioned in 1959 and placed on 4 April 1960, Newport News Shipbuilding keel. After a construction period of just over a year the unit was launched and was baptized by Ethel Skakel Kennedy, the wife of the then Minister of Justice Robert F. Kennedy. In May 1962, the John Marshall could be put into service.

For the first flights of the boat the Marshall was in Holy Loch, Scotland, stationed, in 1966, she returned for a first overhaul back to the United States and in their shipyard. By 1970, the boat had driven 25 patrols on nuclear deterrence and then to Rota, Spain, laid.

In 1974, the second overhaul in the Mare Iceland Naval Shipyard, also the boat was equipped to shoot down ballistic missiles more modern Submarine Launched. After the boat was operating mainly in the Pacific, from the ports of Pearl Harbor and Apra Harbor, Guam.

In 1981 the missile complex was deactivated in agreement with SALT I, the boat was then, especially in anti-submarine exercises, further than hunting submarine SSN- 611. 1983 fixing for two Dry Deck Shelter was installed in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, so that was the Marshall able to transport commandos into hostile waters. So was operating the boat during Operation Desert Storm.

1992 John Marshall was finally decommissioned and broken up in 1997 in the Ship- Submarine Recycling Program at the Puget Sound NSY.