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CLASS - (SSBN-616) LAFAYETTE Ballistic Missile Submarine (18)

RECLASS - (MTS-635) LAFAYETTE Moored Training Ship - date unknown

AWARDED - 1961

BUILDER - Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, VA

IN COMMISSION - 1964 - 1989

DISPOSITION - stricken, to be disposed of, retain as Submarine Moored Training Ship. Custodian is Naval Nuclear Power Training Unit, Charleston, SC, stricken July, 1989.

SAM RAYBURN Awards/Recognition -

SAM RAYBURN factoid - she was the twenty-eighth of the "41 For Freedom" FBM submarines.

USS SAM RAYBURN (SSBN/MTS-635) LINKS

USS SAM RAYBURN (SSBN-635) - SubNet SAM RAYBURN stats and photo page. [ www.subnet.com/fleet/ssbn635.htm ]
USS SAM RAYBURN (SSBN-635) - NavSource Submarine Photo Archive.
USS SAM RAYBURN (SSBN-635) - DANFS, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
USS SAM RAYBURN (SSBN-635) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center SAM RAYBURN DANFS narrative page.
USS SAM RAYBURN (SSBN-635) - SAM RAYBURN Navy Vessel Register web page.
USS SAM RAYBURN (SSBN-635) - a USSVI SAM RAYBURN museum web page.
USS SAM RAYBURN (SSBN-635) - the NavySite.de SAM RAYBURN page.
USS SAM RAYBURN (SSBN-635) - Military.com submarine SAM RAYBURN Homepage; Buddies, Reunions, Messages, Histories; you have to do the email/password thing, what else is new?
USS SAM RAYBURN (SSBN-635) - a SAM RAYBURN home page by Stan Feinberg. Converted to dockside trainer and reclassied as Floating Equipment serving as S5W Prototype.
USS SAM RAYBURN (SSBN-635) - some SAM RAYBURN photos, stories, reunions, etc. by Gary Tucker.
USS SAM RAYBURN (SSBN-635) - a Boomersailors.net "41 For Freedom" SAM RAYBURN page.
[ www.boomersailors.net/boats/41/635.php ] [Where hast thou gone, Boomersailors.net? COB (LINKS)]
USS SAM RAYBURN (SSBN-635) - a SAM RAYBURN narrative page by NavyHistory.com.
USS SAM RAYBURN (SSBN-635) - a Wikipedia.org SAM RAYBURN page.
USS SAM RAYBURN (SSBN-635) - 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 SAM RAYBURN (SSBN-635) - an identical page to the USSVI page above by Decklog.com.
USS SAM RAYBURN (SSBN/MTS-635) - Moored Training Ship by GlobalSecurity.org.

The name SAM RAYBURN is from the famous Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, born on 6 January 1882 in Roane County, TN, graduated from Mayo College (now East Texas State University), at Commerce, TX. After a year teaching school, he won election to the State Legislature. During his third two-year term in the Legislature, he was elected Speaker of the House at the age of 29. The next year, he won election to the U.S. House of Representatives. He went to Congress on 4 March 1913 at the beginning of Woodrow Wilson’s administration and served without interruption for over 48 years. On 16 September 1940, at the age of 58, he became Speaker of the House. When his career as Speaker was interrupted during the sessions of 1947-1948 and 1953-1954 during Republican control of the House, Rayburn served as minority leader. He usually worked quietly in the background in the shaping of legislation. As Speaker, he won a reputation for being fair in his rulings and for forgetting politics when he handled the gavel. He had served as Speaker more than twice as long as any predecessor when he died of cancer in Bonham, TX, on 16 November 1961.