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CLASS - (SSBN-640) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Ballistic Missile Submarine (1) |
AWARDED - 1962 |
BUILDER - Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, CT |
IN COMMISSION - 1965 - 1993 |
DISPOSITION - completed Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA, August, 1995. |
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN factoid - she was the thirtieth of the "41 For Freedom" FBM submarines. |
USS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (SSBN-640) LINKS
- USS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (SSBN-640) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DANFS narrative page.
- USS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (SSBN-640) - SubNet BENJAMIN FRANKLIN stats and photo page.
[ www.subnet.com/fleet/ssbn640.htm ]
- USS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (SSBN-640) - NavSource Submarine Photo Archive.
- USS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (SSBN-640) - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Navy Vessel Register web page.
- USS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (SSBN-640) - the NavySite.de BENJAMIN FRANKLIN page.
- USS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (SSBN-640) - Official Web site of the USS Benjamin Franklin SSBN 640 Association.
- USS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (SSBN-640) - Military.com submarine BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Homepage; Buddies, Reunions, Messages, Histories; you have to do the email/password thing, what else is new?
- USS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (SSBN-640) - a great BENJAMIN FRANKLIN personal homepage w/pix.
- USS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (SSBN-640) - a short BENJAMIN FRANKLIN page by Paul Walker. Not much there, but still a BENJAMIN FRANKLIN page.
- USS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (SSBN-640) - a Boomersailors.net "41 For Freedom" BENJAMIN FRANKLIN page.
[ www.boomersailors.net/boats/41/640.php ] [Where hast thou gone, Boomersailors.net? COB (LINKS)]
- USS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (SSBN-640) - a Wikipedia.org BENJAMIN FRANKLIN page.
- USS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (SSBN-640) - 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 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (SSBN-640) - an identical page to the USSVI page above by Decklog.com.
The name BENJAMIN FRANKLIN is from the American printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790). |
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