George Washington Class Ballistic Missile Submarine: Laid down, 25 August 1958, at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA.; Launched, 18 December 1959; Commissioned, USS Robert E. Lee (SSBN-601), 16 September 1960; Decommissioned and simultaneously struck from the Naval Register, 30 November 1983; Final Disposition, disposed of through NPSSRP (Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 30 September 1991.
Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 5,946 t., Submerged: 6,700 t.; Length 381' 6" ; Beam 33'; Draft 29'; Speed, Surfaced 20 kts, Submerged 25 kts; Complement 112; Test Depth 700'; Armament, 16 missile tubes; Subroc, six 21" torpedo tubes, Propulsion, S5W Pressurized Water Nuclear Reactor, 2 geared turbines at 15,000 shp, one propeller.
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Let me get this straight:
ReplyDeleteIt was ok years ago to have statues of Lee, and a nuclear sub named after him.
Now, the SJW's and Libtards can't stand a statue or portrait of him.
Bassackwards world.
Thank God for Lee.
Thank God for Lee.
DeleteLee and all the patriots of old, we have failed you, sad to say.
There was a USS Stonewalls jackson as well
ReplyDeleteThanks and now that you mention this, I remember the same.
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