USS Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-658)

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 Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-658) was a nuclear submarine of the United States Navy and was part of the Lafayette- class, more precisely the subclass of Benjamin Franklin, to. 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 Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo.

History

SSBN -658 was commissioned in 1963 and 1964 placed on the Iceland Mare Naval Shipyard in Kiel. 1965 ran the boat batch and was baptized, was godmother Patricia OV McGettigan, a descendant Vallejos. The end of 1966 the Mariano G. Vallejo was put into service.

The submarine was stationed in 1967 in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and drove in the following years from there regular patrols on nuclear deterrence. Later the boat was moved and modernized in the Atlantic, so it could shoot I, the Trident. 1987 completed the Vallajo the 2500th deterrent patrol the submarine fleet of the U.S. Navy.

Mariano G. Vallejo 1995 was decommissioned and then canceled in the Ship- Submarine Recycling Program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Only the tower of the boat was obtained on the premises of the Shipyard Mare Iceland, which is located near the city of Vallejo, which is also named after Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, housed and exhibited there. Although the yard was closed in 1996, the tower is still standing there.