USS Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610)

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 Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610) was a nuclear submarine of the Ethan Allen class of the United States Navy. It was named after the famous inventor Thomas Alva Edison.

History

SSBN -610 was commissioned in 1959 and laid still end the year at Electric Boat in Kiel. After a construction period of just over a year it was launched, and was christened by Mrs. Madeleine Edison Sloane. In March 1962, Thomas A. Edison was put into service.

The first years of career operated the submarine base in Holy Loch, Scotland, in 1966, the Edison again reached the United States, as in the Charleston Naval Shipyard, the first overhaul of decency. Following, in 1968, the boat moved back to Europe, her home port of Rota was in Spain. In 1973 the boat was assigned to the Pacific Fleet, in the same year an overhaul and modernization of the rocket complex took place in the Mare Iceland Naval Shipyard. After the following tests the Edison was stationed in 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- 610. In November 1982, the boat collided with the emergence of the USS Leftwich (DD -984 ), where it was heavily damaged. In the United States Naval Base Subic Bay, the ship was examined, and finally went to the water surface back to the United States. There the boat was no longer fixed, but made ​​official on 1 December 1983 from service and broken up in 1997 in the Ship- Submarine Recycling Program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.

The USS Thomas A. Edison was the only nuclear -powered missile submarine, which is a Steinway Piano normal size resulted in 22 years with him ( 1961-1983 )