Friday, January 15, 2010

Timeline

1958 - Authorized by Congress
07/01/1959 - Ordered
03/15/1960 - Laid Down in Groton, CT
06/15/1961 - Launched
03/10/1962 - Commissioned
04/09/1962 - Collision with USS Wadleigh
04/11/1962 - Fire in rudder section
05/23/1962 - Fires first Polaris Missile
06/14/1962 - President Kennedy aboard
11/07/1962 - First Deterrent Patrol from Charleston, SC (to Holy Loch)
02/15/1963 - First Blue Crew Patrol
---Based at Holy Loch through September 1966
10/15/1966 - Ends 17th Deterrent Patrol at Charleston
10/28/1966 - Begins Overhaul
05/09/1968 - End Overhaul
09/22/1968 - 18th Deterrent Patrol
- Shortened 19th Patrol
- Follow On Target test launch

---Based New London and Rota, Spain through June 1973
Jun 1973 - Transferred to US Pacific Fleet
07/11/1973 - Arrives San Diego, CA
08/06/1973 - Moved to Vallejo, CA for Overhaul
11/30/1974 - Repairs complete
Jan / Feb 1975 - Shakedown
03/1975 - Transit Panama Canal
- Test Missles near Cape Canaveral, FL - conlcuded in July
08/08/1975 - Transit Panama Canal
-West Coast ops through Dec 1975
-Dec 1975 - New port Apra, Guam
1981 - Missile section Deactivated for SALT I
10/06/1980 - Reclassified as Attack Sub and renumbered SSN-610
Aug 1982 - Feb 1983 - Conducts first West Pacific deployment of ex-SSBN
11/29/1982 - Collision with USS Leftwich
12/01/1983 - Decommisioned
04/30/1986 - Stricken from Naval Register
10/01/1996 - Entered Puget Sound Recycling Program
12/01/1997 - Ceased to exist

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