USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618)

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 Jefferson (SSBN-618) was a nuclear submarine of the Ethan Allen class of the United States Navy. It was named after Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, named.

History

SSBN -618 was commissioned in 1960 and established in early 1961 at Newport News Shipbuilding in Kiel. After a construction period of only a little over a year the unit was launched and christened by the wife of Robert S. McNamara. Beginning of 1963, the Jefferson was put into service.

From December 1963, the Jefferson was stationed in Holy Loch, Scotland, and from there drove patrols on nuclear deterrence. In 1967 after 12 trips, the first overhaul, starting in 1968 drove the boat from Rota, Spain from.

1972 Meritorious Unit Commendation could win the "Golden Crew" of the boat. 1974, Jefferson was assigned to the Pacific Fleet stationed in Vallejo ( California). That same year, she docked in the Naval Shipyard Mare Iceland and was overtaken there until 1975.

1976 shot the boat for testing two UGM -27 Polaris off and carried out further patrols. 1981 has been disabled due to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks missile section of the boat and filled the missile bays with cement. The boat was reclassified to hunt submarines and got the registration SSN- 618. By 1985, the Jefferson served mainly for anti-submarine exercises. In April 1986, the boat was decommissioned. In 1998, the demolition as part of the Ship - Submarine Recycling Program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard was completed.