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NICKNAME - "The T-Cup"

MOTTO - "UNITED FOR FREEDOM"

CLASS - (SSBN-616) LAFAYETTE Ballistic Missile Submarine (11)

AWARDED - 1961

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

IN COMMISSION - 1964 - 1993

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

TECUMSEH Awards/Recognition -

TECUMSEH factoid - she was the twenty-first of the "41 For Freedom" FBM submarines.

USS TECUMSEH (SSBN-628) LINKS

USS TECUMSEH (SSBN-628) - SubNet TECUMSEH stats and photo page. [ www.subnet.com/fleet/ssbn628.htm ]
USS TECUMSEH (SSBN-628) - NavSource Submarine Photo Archive.
USS TECUMSEH (SSBN-628) - DANFS, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
USS TECUMSEH (SSBN-628) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center TECUMSEH DANFS narrative page.
USS TECUMSEH (SSBN-628) - TECUMSEH Navy Vessel Register web page.
USS TECUMSEH (SSBN-628) - the NavySite.de TECUMSEH page.
USS TECUMSEH (SSBN-628) - Military.com submarine TECUMSEH Homepage; Buddies, Reunions, Messages, Histories; you have to do the email/password thing, what else is new?
USS TECUMSEH (SSBN-628) - a tight website in memory of the old "T-cup"; site is filled with many pictures of the boat and crew with history of the boat all the way until decom. Also Patrol Report newsletter and reunion info.
USS TECUMSEH (SSBN-628) - a Boomersailors.net "41 For Freedom" TECUMSEH page.
[ www.boomersailors.net/boats/41/628.php ] [Where hast thou gone, Boomersailors.net? COB (LINKS)]
USS TECUMSEH (SSBN-628) - a TECUMSEH narrative page by NavyHistory.com.
USS TECUMSEH (SSBN-628) - a Wikipedia.org TECUMSEH page.
USS TECUMSEH (SSBN-628) - 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 TECUMSEH (SSBN-628) - an identical page to the USSVI page above by Decklog.com.

The name TECUMSEH is from the famous Shawnee Indian chief born near the present site of Springfield, OH. He was still a youth - sometime in or around 1768 - when he won renown as a brave and skillful warrior. He devoted his life to opposing the advance of white settlers. Reasoning that land in North America - especially in the Ohio valley - belonged to all of the tribes in common, Tecumseh maintained that sales of territory by any single tribe to the United States were null and void. After the Federal Government refused to recognize this principle, Tecumseh attempted to organize a great Indian Confederacy to stem the white tide.
However, while he was in the South working to unite the tribes, Federal troops under Governor William Henry Harrison defeated and scattered Indian forces on 7 November 1811 in the battle of Tippecanoe. This defeat doomed the Indian Confederacy.
After Congress declared war on Great Britain the following year, Tecumseh accepted a commission as a brigadier general in the British army. He cooperated with British troops to win a number of victories in the Great Lakes region, including the capture of Detroit. However, Comdr. Oliver Hazard Perry’s victory on Lake Erie, late in the summer of 1813, cut British supply lines and prompted them to withdraw along the Thames Valley. Tecumseh and his braves covered the British retirement until American troops led by Harrison - now a major general - caught up with them at Moraviantown. Tecumseh was killed in the ensuing Battle of the Thames on 5 October 1813.