COB (LINKS) HOME===>>THE BOATS===>>USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) LINKS

NICKNAME -

MOTTO - "STRENGTH THROUGH KNOWLEDGE"

CLASS - (SSBN-640) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Ballistic Missile Submarine (9)

AWARDED - 1963

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

IN COMMISSION - 1966 - 1993

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

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER Awards/Recognition -

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER factoid - she was the thirty-eighth of the "41 For Freedom" FBM submarines.

USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) LINKS

USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - SubNet GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER stats and photo page.
[ www.subnet.com/fleet/ssbn656.htm ]
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - NavSource Submarine Photo Archive.
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - DANFS, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER DANFS narrative page.
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER photo page. SSBN-656, 1966-1993, a Benjamin Franklin class nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine, was built at Newport News, Virginia.....
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER photo page. In the Atlantic Ocean, 13 July 1967.
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER photo page. Underway at sea, circa June, 1966.
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER photo page. Christened by Marian Anderson, at the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, on 14 August 1965.
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER photo page. Launching, at the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, on 14 August 1965.
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER photo page. Ship's insignia, adopted in 1966 when she was first commissioned. U.S. Naval Historical.....
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER Navy Vessel Register web page.
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - the NavySite.de GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER page.
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - a GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER home page and Reunion Association.
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - a Neohumanism.org GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER page.
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - Military.com submarine GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER Homepage; Buddies, Reunions, Messages, Histories; you have to do the email/password thing, what else is new?
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - a Boomersailors.net "41 For Freedom" GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER page. [ www.boomersailors.net/boats/41/656.php ] [Where hast thou gone, Boomersailors.net? COB (LINKS)]
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - just a "This page is temporarily being restructured. It will be moving to a new location. Check back." page. [Guess we'll do that for awhile, stand by to be redirected! COB (LINKS) NOTE 02/11/06.]
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - a VERY NICE GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER SITE! Articles, Downloads, FAQ, Discussion, Forum, Web Links, News Categories, Photo Gallery, Search, Crew List, More. A lot of work invested here!
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - a GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER narrative page by NavyHistory.com.
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - a Wikipedia.org GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER page.
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - 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 GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) - an identical page to the USSVI page above by Decklog.com.

The name GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER is from the botanist and agricultural chemist who was born in 1864 on a plantation near Diamond, MO. His parents were Negro slaves owned by Moses Carver. When he was only a few months old, he and his mother were stolen by raiders and taken to Arkansas. After the end of the Civil War, he was recovered by his owner with whose family he remained until he set out to make his own way in the world at about the age of 9.
Overcoming prejudice and poverty, he eagerly seized every opportunity to acquire an education. He studied agricultural science at Iowa State College, graduating in 1894 and receiving a Master of Science degree 2 years later. After serving briefly on the faculty there, he joined Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, where he headed the Agricultural Department.
In the ensuing years, his achievements in the fields of soil conservation, crop diversification, and utilization of southern plants and crops won him worldwide acclaim. He is remembered for the ingenuity which enabled him to discover some 300 new and useful products from the peanut, over 100 from the sweet potato, and about 60 from the pecan. He also found new uses from cotton, cowpeas and wild plums. He selflessly refused offers of fortunes for the commercial exploitation of his discoveries, choosing rather to give them freely to mankind.
An indefatigable researcher and inventor, George Washington Carver died in Tuskegee, AL, 5 January 1943.