USS Lewis and Clark (SSBN-644)

Immersed 8250 ts

129.5 m

10.1 m

9.6 m

13 officers and 107 men

A S5W reactor

25 nodes

4533 -mm torpedo tubes, 16 ICBMs

The USS Lewis and Clark (SSBN-644) was a nuclear submarine of the United States Navy 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 Lewis and Clark expedition and its directors to Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.

History

SSBN -644 was commissioned on November 1, 1962 at Newport News Shipbuilding in order and placed there in the summer of 1963 at Kiel. After almost one and a half years, the boat was launched and was baptized, the end of 1965, the Lewis and Clark was finally put into service.

In the summer of 1972, the boat finished the conversion of their missile bays, before the boat was the UGM -27 Polaris shoot, then later the more modern UGM -73 Poseidon. On December 18, the Lewis and Clark scored in the test for the first time from a Poseidon. 1981 shot from the boat only four more missiles and then docked to its original shipyard in order to be overhauled there.

1985 scored the SSBN as a test for another four from Poseidon, on 27 June 1992, the boat was finally decommissioned and broken up in 1996 in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard as part of the Ship - Submarine Recycling Program.

The tower and the hydroplanes of the Lewis and Clark were preserved and are now in the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum in Charleston, South Carolina issued.

Subclass Lafayette USS Lafayette | USS Alexander Hamilton | USS Andrew Jackson | USS John Adams | USS James Monroe | USS Nathan Hale | USS Woodrow Wilson | USS Henry Clay | USS Daniel Webster

Subclass James Madison USS James Madison | USS Tecumseh | USS Daniel Boone | USS John C. Calhoun | USS Ulysses S. Grant | USS Von Steuben | USS Casimir Pulaski | USS Stonewall Jackson | USS Sam Rayburn | USS Nathanael Greene

Subclass Benjamin Franklin USS Benjamin Franklin | USS Simon Bolivar | USS Kamehameha | USS George Bancroft | USS Lewis and Clark | USS James K. Polk | USS George C. Marshall | USS Henry L. Stimson | USS George W. Carver | USS Francis Scott Key | USS Mariano G. Vallejo | USS Will Rogers

List of submarine classes of the United States Navy List of submarines of the United States Navy

• Lafayette- class
• Newport News Shipbuilding