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MOTTO - "LIBERTATEM AMICITIAM RETINEBIS ET FIDEM" |
CLASS - (SSBN-616) LAFAYETTE Ballistic Missile Submarine (4) |
AWARDED - 1960 |
BUILDER - Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME |
IN COMMISSION - 1964 - 1989 |
DISPOSITION - completed Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA, February, 1996. |
JOHN ADAMS Awards/Recognition - |
JOHN ADAMS factoid - she was the fourteenth of the "41 For Freedom" FBM submarines. |
USS JOHN ADAMS (SSBN-620) LINKS- USS JOHN ADAMS (SSBN-620) - unofficial JOHN ADAMS home page.
- USS JOHN ADAMS (SSBN-620) - SubNet JOHN ADAMS stats and photo page. [ www.subnet.com/fleet/ssbn620.htm ]
- USS JOHN ADAMS (SSBN-620) - NavSource Submarine Photo Archive.
- USS JOHN ADAMS (SSBN-620) - DANFS, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
- USS JOHN ADAMS (SSBN-620) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center JOHN ADAMS DANFS narrative page.
- USS JOHN ADAMS (SSBN-620) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center JOHN ADAMS photo page. Seaman Daniel J. Lewis stands watch as lookout on the submarine's bridge, while it runs on the surface, December.....
- USS JOHN ADAMS (SSBN-620) - unofficial JOHN ADAMS home page.
- USS JOHN ADAMS (SSBN-620) - JOHN ADAMS Navy Vessel Register web page.
- USS JOHN ADAMS (SSBN-620) - the NavySite.de JOHN ADAMS page.
- USS JOHN ADAMS (SSBN-620) - Military.com submarine JOHN ADAMS Homepage; Buddies, Reunions, Messages, Histories; you have to do the email/password thing, what else is new?
- USS JOHN ADAMS (SSBN-620) - a Boomersailors.net "41 For Freedom" JOHN ADAMS page.
[ www.boomersailors.net/boats/41/620.php ] [Where hast thou gone, Boomersailors.net? COB (LINKS)]
- USS JOHN ADAMS (SSBN-620) - a JOHN ADAMS narrative page by NavyHistory.com.
- USS JOHN ADAMS (SSBN-620) - a Wikipedia.org JOHN ADAMS page.
- USS JOHN ADAMS (SSBN-620) - a USSVI Ship's Profile page w/Classification, Characteristics, Key Dates, Reunion/Association, Crew Lists (available on DeckLog), History, Internet Associations and Reunions, Photo and Patch.
- USS JOHN ADAMS (SSBN-620) - an identical page to the USSVI page above by Decklog.com.
The name JOHN ADAMS is from the famous American father (John Adams) and son (John Quincy Adams).
John Adams, born in Braintree, MA, 19 October 1735, graduated from Harvard in 1755. He studied law while teaching school for the next 3 years and was admitted to the bar in 1758. His opposition to the Stamp Act in 1765 established Adams as a political leader. After moving to Boston he served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and later in the Provincial Congress.
In 1774 Adams was selected as one of the delegates from Massachusetts to the first Continental Congress where he became a champion of American rights and liberties and later a leader in the independence movement. He seconded Richard Henry Lee's motion for a resolution of independence 7 June 1776, and he served on the committee which drafted the Declaration of Independence which was adopted 4 July.
On 5 October 1775, Congress created the first of a series of committees to study naval matters. From that time onward throughout his career Adams championed the establishment and strengthening of an American Navy. He was so active and effective in forwarding the nation's naval interests that he is often called the father of the Navy.
John Adams was the first Vice President of the United Stated serving under Washington from 1789 to 1797 when he became the second President. Difficulties with France during his administration prompted him to push vigorously for construction of the Navy which had been neglected after the treaty of Paris.
Defeated for reelection in 1800, John Adams retired from public life to Quincy, MA, where he died 4 July 1826, coincidentally both the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and the day of Thomas Jefferson's death.
John Quincy Adams, the eldest son of President John Adams, was born 1 July 1767 at Quincy, MA.
James Monroe appointed him Secretary of State, and he won enduring fame in the post. The Monroe Doctrine was the crowning achievement of the 8 years of skillful service in the office establishing the position of the United States as a power capable of dealing with other nations as equals.
In 1824, after an inconclusive general election, the House of Representatives elected him sixth President of the United States. After serving one term, his try for reelection was defeated by Andrew Jackson. Two years after his return to Quincy, he was elected to Congress, where he enjoyed widespread respect for his great knowledge and his high-minded opposition to any extension of slavery. While on the floor of the House, he was seized by a stroke 21 February 1848 and died shortly afterwards. |
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