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1945 - PCU SIRAGO (SS-485) keel laid as SIRAGO at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, NH.
1960 - PCU HALIBUT (SSGN-587) commissioned USS HALIBUT (SSGN-587) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA; Lt. Comdr. Walter Dedrick commanding. She was the first and only nuclear powered, Regulus guided missile submarine. She was also the first submarine to carry the Ships Inertial Navigation System (SINS).
1963 - PCU THOMAS JEFFERSON (SSBN-618) commissioned USS THOMAS JEFFERSON (SSBN-618) at Newport New Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, VA; Comdr. Leon H. Rathbun (BLUE) and Comdr. Charles Priest, Jr., (GOLD) commanding.
1965 - PCU RAY (SSN-653) keel laid as RAY at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport New, VA.
1984 - PCU OKLAHOMA CITY (SSN-723) keel laid as OKLAHOMA CITY at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, VA.
1992 - PCU SPRINGFIELD (SSN-761) launched at the Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, CT.
2006 - the Ohio-class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine USS ALABAMA (SSBN-731) was being moved "dead-stick" in Puget Sound, WA by a flotilla of tug boats.
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Welcome aboard! The hyperlinks on any given hull number will take you to a page of more links for that boat or an interesting link if no page of links is available.
These are events for all United States Navy commissioned and some noncommissioned submarines and submersibles.
Sources of major events are at least double verified or the entry doesn't make the cut.
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