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NICKNAME -

MOTTO - "VIS UNITA FORTIOR"

CLASS - (SSBN-616) LAFAYETTE Ballistic Missile Submarine (6)

AWARDED - 1961

BUILDER - Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, CT

IN COMMISSION - 1963 - 1986

DISPOSITION - completed Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA, April, 1994.

NATHAN HALE Awards/Recognition -

NATHAN HALE factoid - she was the sixteenth of the "41 For Freedom" FBM submarines.

USS NATHAN HALE (SSBN-623) LINKS

USS NATHAN HALE (SSBN-623) - SubNet NATHAN HALE stats and photo page. [ www.subnet.com/fleet/ssbn623.htm ]
USS NATHAN HALE (SSBN-623) - NavSource Submarine Photo Archive.
USS NATHAN HALE (SSBN-623) - DANFS, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
USS NATHAN HALE (SSBN-623) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center NATHAN HALE DANFS narrative page.
USS NATHAN HALE (SSBN-623) - NATHAN HALE Navy Vessel Register web page.
USS NATHAN HALE (SSBN-623) - the NavySite.de NATHAN HALE page.
USS NATHAN HALE (SSBN-623) - a Neohumanism.org NATHAN HALE page.
USS NATHAN HALE (SSBN-623) - Military.com submarine NATHAN HALE Homepage; Buddies, Reunions, Messages, Histories; you have to do the email/password thing, what else is new?
USS NATHAN HALE (SSBN-623) - a Boomersailors.net "41 For Freedom" NATHAN HALE page.
[ www.boomersailors.net/boats/41/623.php ] [Where hast thou gone, Boomersailors.net? COB (LINKS)]
USS NATHAN HALE (SSBN-623) - a NATHAN HALE narrative page by NavyHistory.com.
USS NATHAN HALE (SSBN-623) - a Wikipedia.org NATHAN HALE page.
USS NATHAN HALE (SSBN-623) - 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 NATHAN HALE (SSBN-623) - an identical page to the USSVI page above by Decklog.com.

The name NATHAN HALE is from the famous American born in Coventry, CT, 6 June 1755 and graduated from Yale College in 1773. Two years later, as residents of the colonies pressed for the rights of Englishmen, Hale, a teacher, was appointed a lieutenant by the Connecticut General Assembly 1 July 1775. As the fight for English common rights turned into one for independence, he fought with the Continental Army in the siege of Boston and was later chosen as one of the captains of Knowlton’s Rangers. Volunteering as a spy for General Washington in the summer of 1776, he went to Long Island disguised as a Dutch school teacher. On 21 September, however, he was captured. The British Commander, General Sir William Howe, offered him a captaincy and ample purse if he would change allegiance. Hale refused and was sentenced to hang the following day. His jailer, the infamous Provost Marshal William Cunningham, refusing him a Bible, chaplain, or paper for letters, tauntingly demanded some last words. Nathan Hale spoke prayerfully for American freedom, ending with the unforgettable expression; “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”.