Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Launching of the Submarine Robert E Lee

Via Cousin John


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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4 comments:

  1. Let me get this straight:
    It 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.

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    1. Thank God for Lee.

      Lee and all the patriots of old, we have failed you, sad to say.

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  2. There was a USS Stonewalls jackson as well

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    1. Thanks and now that you mention this, I remember the same.

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