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CLASS - (SSBN-616) LAFAYETTE Ballistic Missile Submarine (14)

AWARDED - 1961

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

IN COMMISSION - 1964 - 1992

DISPOSITION - completed Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA, March, 1993.

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ULYSSES S. GRANT factoid - she was the twenty-fourth of the "41 For Freedom" FBM submarines.

USS ULYSSES S. GRANT (SSBN-631) LINKS

USS ULYSSES S. GRANT (SSBN-631) - Alan Stricklin's unofficial ULYSSES S. GRANT page.
USS ULYSSES S. GRANT (SSBN-631) - by the USS U.S. Grant Forum and The SubMan - Michael N. Arterburn.
USS ULYSSES S. GRANT (SSBN-631) - SubNet ULYSSES S. GRANT stats and photo page.
[ www.subnet.com/fleet/ssbn631.htm ]
USS ULYSSES S. GRANT (SSBN-631) - NavSource Submarine Photo Archive.
USS ULYSSES S. GRANT (SSBN-631) - DANFS, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
USS ULYSSES S. GRANT (SSBN-631) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center ULYSSES S. GRANT DANFS narrative page.
USS ULYSSES S. GRANT (SSBN-631) - ULYSSES S. GRANT Navy Vessel Register web page.
USS ULYSSES S. GRANT (SSBN-631) - the NavySite.de ULYSSES S. GRANT page.
USS ULYSSES S. GRANT (SSBN-631) - an unofficial ULYSSES S. GRANT site. Fourteenth of the Lafayette class of Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarines, commissioned 1964 and decommissioned 1992.
USS ULYSSES S. GRANT (SSBN-631) - Military.com submarine ULYSSES S. GRANT Homepage; Buddies, Reunions, Messages, Histories; you have to do the email/password thing, what else is new?
USS ULYSSES S. GRANT (SSBN-631) - a Boomersailors.net "41 For Freedom" ULYSSES S. GRANT page.
[ www.boomersailors.net/boats/41/631.php ] [Where hast thou gone, Boomersailors.net? COB (LINKS)]
USS ULYSSES S. GRANT (SSBN-631) - a ULYSSES S. GRANT narrative page by NavyHistory.com.
USS ULYSSES S. GRANT (SSBN-631) - a Wikipedia.org ULYSSES S. GRANT page.
USS ULYSSES S. GRANT (SSBN-631) - 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 ULYSSES S. GRANT (SSBN-631) - an identical page to the USSVI page above by Decklog.com.

The name ULYSSES S. GRANT is from the famous American Ulysses Simpson Grant-born on 27 April 1822 at Point Pleasant, Ohio-graduated from the United States Military Academy on 1 July 1843. He served with distinction in the war with Mexico-under Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott, taking part in the battles of Resaca de la Palma, Palo Alto, Monterrey, and Vera Cruz. He was twice brevetted for bravery: at Molino del Rey and Chapultepec. After growing restive during frontier duty in the peacetime Army, he resigned his commission in 1854 and attempted to pursue careers in business and farming.
Shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War, Grant was commissioned a colonel in the 21st Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He later became brigadier general of volunteers on 7 August 1861. Following the captures of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in February 1862, President Abraham Lincoln promoted Grant to major general of volunteers. These victories opened Tennessee to federal forces, and earned Grant the nickname of "unconditional surrender."
He doggedly pursued the Confederate Army and won impressive-but costly-victories at Shiloh, Vicksburg and Chattanooga. His willingness to fight and ability to win impressed President Lincoln who appointed Grant lieutenant general and gave him overall command of the Army.
Grant left Major General William T. Sherman in immediate charge of all boons in the west and moved his headquarters to Virginia where he turned his attention to the long frustrated Union effort to take Richmond. Despite heavy losses and difficult terrain, the Army of the Potomac kept up a relentless pursuit of General Robert E. Lee's troops and won bloody contests in the Wilderness, at Spotsylvania, at Cold Harbor, and at Petersburg. His relentless pressure finally forced Lee's evacuation at Richmond early in April 1865 and his surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on 9 April 1865. Within a few weeks, the War between the States was over.
Grant became ad interim Secretary of War on 12 August 1867-when Johnson suspended Secretary Stanton-and held the office until early the next year. He ran for the presidency on the Republican ticket in 1868 and won the election. His two terms were marred by economic, social, and political turmoil, but Grant himself was not involved in the scandals, and his personal reputation emerged untarnished.
He devoted his twilight years to writing and completing his two volumes of Personal Memoirs which were published the year of his death. Grant died on 23 July 1885, at Mt. McGregor, NY.