USS Sam Houston (SSBN-609)

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 Sam Houston (SSBN-609) was a nuclear submarine of the Ethan Allen class of the United States Navy. It was named after Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas.

History

SSBN -609 was commissioned in 1959 and laid still end the year at Newport News Shipbuilding in Kiel. After a construction period of just over a year, she was launched and christened by Mrs. John B. Connally. In March 1962, the Sam Houston could be put into service.

First missile launch from the boat were on April 25, after the end of the test runs performed. First rides led the Houston again and again to Holy Loch, Scotland. Your third trip in 1963 was the first one Boomers in the Mediterranean, where they also in Izmir, Turkey, moored. It was not until 1966, after seventeen patrol, the boat went first back to the U.S. where they are in the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard underwent an overhaul. 1968 moved the Sam Houston back to Holy Loch, 1970 finally to Rota, Spain.

In 1972 a further overhaul and modernization of its missile complex in the Charleston Naval Shipyard. Following the submarine of Guam and Pearl Harbor was operating from.

In 1981 the missile complex of the boat was disabled due to the limitations of SALT I, the boat was reclassified to the hunting submarine SSN- 609. By 1985, the boat took part in mainly anti-submarine exercises, then the devices were installed to transport a Dry Deck Shelters in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, which secretly U.S. Navy SEALs could be suspended by the board Houston.

In 1991 the boat was finally decommissioned and broken up in 1992 in the Ship- Submarine Recycling Program.