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NICKNAME - "The Hog"

MOTTO -

CLASS - (SSBN-640) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Ballistic Missile Submarine (8)

AWARDED - 1963

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

IN COMMISSION - 1966 - 1993

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

HENRY L. STIMSON Awards/Recognition -

HENRY L. STIMSON factoid - she was the thirty-seventh of the "41 For Freedom" FBM submarines.

USS HENRY L. STIMSON (SSBN-655) LINKS

USS HENRY L. STIMSON (SSBN-655) - SubNet HENRY L. STIMSON stats and photo page.
[ www.subnet.com/fleet/ssbn655.htm ]
USS HENRY L. STIMSON (SSBN-655) - NavSource Submarine Photo Archive.
USS HENRY L. STIMSON (SSBN-655) - DANFS, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
USS HENRY L. STIMSON (SSBN-655) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center HENRY L. STIMSON DANFS narrative page.
USS HENRY L. STIMSON (SSBN-655) - HENRY L. STIMSON Navy Vessel Register web page.
USS HENRY L. STIMSON (SSBN-655) - the NavySite.de HENRY L. STIMSON page.
USS HENRY L. STIMSON (SSBN-655) - a Neohumanism.org HENRY L. STIMSON page.
USS HENRY L. STIMSON (SSBN-655) - Military.com submarine HENRY L. STIMSON Homepage; Buddies, Reunions, Messages, Histories; you have to do the email/password thing, what else is new?
USS HENRY L. STIMSON (SSBN-655) - a HENRY L. STIMSON homepage by Jeff Bricmont. Dedicated to all the men who rode "The Hog" through her days of quiet deterrence, and specifically to those aboard in her youth. Contact and reunion info, photographs. [ home.att.net/~little-jeff/ ] CONTENT BLOCKED
USS HENRY L. STIMSON (SSBN-655) - USS HENRY L. STIMSON SSBN 655 WEBSITE by Jeff Bricmont.
[ little-jeff.home.att.net/ ] CONTENT BLOCKED
USS HENRY L. STIMSON (SSBN-655) - this site is dedicated to all the men who rode "The Hog" throughout her days of quiet deterrence, from her pre-commissioning days at Electric Boat, through her final patrol and last days spent in the service of her country as a United States warship. New webmaster is Randy Allen.
USS HENRY L. STIMSON (SSBN-655) - a Boomersailors.net "41 For Freedom" HENRY L. STIMSON page.
[ www.boomersailors.net/boats/41/655.php ] [Where hast thou gone, Boomersailors.net? COB (LINKS)]
USS HENRY L. STIMSON (SSBN-655) - HENRY STIMSON site with crew lists, photos by Neal I. Anderson. The background is cool but it interferes with reading the text.
USS HENRY L. STIMSON (SSBN-655) - a HENRY L. STIMSON narrative page by NavyHistory.com.
USS HENRY L. STIMSON (SSBN-655) - a Wikipedia.org HENRY L. STIMSON page.
USS HENRY L. STIMSON (SSBN-655) - 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 HENRY L. STIMSON (SSBN-655) - an identical page to the USSVI page above by Decklog.com.

The name HENRY L. STIMSON is from Henry Lewis Stimson, born in New York City 21 September 1867, graduated from Yale in 1888. After graduate work and law school at Harvard, he entered the law firm headed by Elihu Root in 1891 and two years later became a partner.
In 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Here he made a distinguished record prosecuting antitrust cases. After defeat as Republican candidate for governor of New York in 1910, Stimson was appointed Secretary of War in 1911. He continued the reorganization of the Army begun by Root, bringing it to high efficiency prior to its vast expansion in World War I.
Following the outbreak of war, he was a leader in the American effort to aid the stricken people of Belgium. After the United States became a belligerent, he served in France as an artillery officer reaching rank of Colonel in August 1918.
His success in several important diplomatic assignments and as Governor-General of the Philippine Islands led to Stimson's appointment as Secretary of State in 1929. His management of the Nation's foreign affairs was highlighted by his strong opposition to Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the first aggressive step which led to World War II.
Returning to private life at the end of President Hoover's administration, Stimson was an outspoken advocate of strong opposition to Japanese aggression. In 1941 President Roosevelt returned him to his old post at the head of the War Department and he skillfully directed the tremendous expansion of the Army to the force of over 10,000,000 men which crushed Axis ground forces in Europe and the Pacific.
Stimson retired from public office 21 September 1945 and died at Huntington, NY, 20 October 1950.