Recycling via Ship-Submarine Recycling Program completed 21 August 1997
General characteristics
Class and type
George Washington-class submarine
Type
SSBN
Displacement
5400 tons light[2]
5959–6019 tons surfaced[2]
6709–6888 Approx. tons submerged[2]
Length
381.6 ft (116.3 m)[2]
Beam
33 ft (10 m)[2]
Draft
29 ft (8.8 m)[2]
Propulsion
1 S5W PWR[2]
2 geared turbines at 15,000shp[2]
1 shaft[2]
Speed
20 kn (37 km/h) surfaced[2]
+25 kn (46 km/h) submerged[2]
Range
unlimited except by food supplies
Test depth
700 ft (210 m)[2]
Complement
Two crews (Blue/Gold) each consisting of
12 officers
100 men
Armament
16 Polaris A1/A3 missiles[2]
6 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes[2]
USS Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), named after the American Revolutionary War figure and Founding Father Patrick Henry (1736–1799), was a George Washington class nuclear-powered fleet ballistic missile submarine of the United States Navy. She was later converted into an attack submarine and redesignated SSN-599.
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action) and resumed his career as a naval aviator, flying F-14s off the USSPatrickHenry (CVN-74) as a member of VF-218 "Raptors". However, because of the...
PatrickHenry (May 29, 1736 [O.S. May 18, 1736] – June 6, 1799) was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention...
"Crossing the Line". While passing through Washington on her way to the USSPatrickHenry (CVN-74) after completing Landing Signal Officer training, she passed...
in which CSS Virginia destroyed the Federal warships USS Cumberland and USS Congress, PatrickHenry attempted to take the latter's surrender but was fired...
(David James Elliott), now back as an F-14 Tomcat pilot aboard the USSPatrickHenry, finds himself forced to defend a young lieutenant who has mistakenly...
2017[update], the U.S. Navy maintains two submarine tenders, USS Emory S. Land (AS-39) and USS Frank Cable (AS-40). "Chinese Navy conducts naval exercise...
erupted on USS Canopus, killing three of her complement. Almost four years later, on 3 November 1974, the nuclear ballistic missile submarine USS James Madison...
Sarah Winston Syme Henry, the mother of PatrickHenry, was a Colonial woman who educated her son and worked for the independence of the Thirteen Colonies...
Sarah Shelton (1738–1775), was the first wife of Founding Father PatrickHenry, the first Governor of Virginia. Shelton was born and raised in her family's...
effective legislator. Bowman served aboard USS Picking (DD-685), USS George C. Marshall (SSBN-654) and USSPatrickHenry (SSBN-599). He was designated an engineering...
20 July 1960 from USS George Washington (SSBN-598). Through October Observation Island also supported launches from USSPatrickHenry (SSBN-599). Following...
mishap aboard the USS Seahawk ("When the Bough Breaks"), and a death during surgery ("Complications"). Also this season, Bud Roberts (Patrick Labyorteaux)...
Littoral Combat Ships USS Little Rock, USS Detroit This Week". usni.org. 27 September 2023. Retrieved 30 September 2023. Detroit Fort McHenry Grapple Hue City...
Loch, as the nuclear missile bearing USSPatrickHenry sailed past protesters and in alongside its tending ship, USS Proteus, to begin a two-year mission...
SS PatrickHenry was the first Liberty ship launched. It was built by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at their Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard in...
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