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U.S.S. TECUMSEH
(SSBN-628)UNITED FOR FREEDOM
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USS TECUMSEH (SSBN-628) - a James Madison-class submarine
In Commission 1964 to 1993SSBN-628 Deployments - Major Events
Add a SSBN-628 Shellback Initiation | Add a SSBN-628 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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JUN | 1962 | - | Keel Date: 1 JUN 1962 at Electric Boat Groton Connecticut | ||
JUN | 1963 | - | Launch Date: 22 JUN 1963 | ||
MAY | 1964 | - | Commissioned: 29 MAY 1964 | ||
OCT | 1964 | - | OCT | 1964 | Panama Canal |
DEC | 1964 | - | Shellback Initiation - 21 DEC 1964 - Pacific Ocean | ||
DEC | 1964 | - | MAR | 1965 | West Pac |
DEC | 1964 | - | MAR | 1965 | West Pac |
OCT | 1970 | - | Shellback Initiation - 1 OCT 1970 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
APR | 1971 | - | APR | 1971 | Collision with Sound Barge |
SEP | 1971 | - | DEC | 1971 | Blue Nose - Arctic Circle |
MAY | 1973 | - | JUL | 1973 | Blue Nose - Arctic Circle |
MAR | 1976 | - | MAY | 1976 | Blue Nose - Arctic Circle |
AUG | 1980 | - | OCT | 1980 | Blue Nose - Arctic Circle |
JAN | 1993 | - | JAN | 1993 | Panama Canal |
JAN | 1993 | - | Shellback Initiation - 15 JAN 1993 - Pacific Ocean | ||
JUL | 1993 | - | Decommissioned: 23 JUL 1993 |
SSBN-628 General Specifications
Class: James Madison-class submarine
Named for: Tecumseh (1768-1813)
Complement: 140 Officers and Enlisted
Displacement: 7300 tons
Length: 425 feet
Beam: 33 feet
Flank Speed: 16 knots
Final Disposition: Scrapping via Ship-Submarine Recycling Program completed 1 April 1994
USS TECUMSEH (SSBN-628)
The fourth Tecumseh (SSBN-628)
was laid down on 1 June 1962 at
Groton, Conn., by the Electric Boat Division
of the General Dynamics Corp.; launched on 22 June 1963; sponsored by Mrs. Robert L. F. Sikes; and was commissioned on 29 May 1964, Comdr.
Arnett B. Taylor (blue crew) and
Comdr. Charles S. Carlisle (gold crew)
in command.
Tecumseh soon departed the east coast, bound for Hawaii.
Based at Pearl Harbor, the nuclear-powered submarine
deployed to the Marianas on 17 December 1964, arriving at Guam 12 days later to commence deterrent patrols. Alternately manned by
"blue" and "gold" crews, she conducted 21 of these
missions into 1969.
The submarine was then
transferred to the Atlantic Fleet
where she proceeded via Pearl Harbor and the Panama Canal to the east coast and
arrived at Newport News, Va., on 8
November 1969. Soon thereafter, she entered the Newport News Shipbuilding and
Drydock Company yards for a
conversion which replaced her Polaris missiles system with its Poseidon
counterpart. Emerging from drydock on 9 May 1970, Tecumseh underwent a thorough overhaul through that fall and
winter before being assigned a new
home port of Charleston, S.C., on 18
February 1971.
She conducted sea trials
and shakedown out of Charleston before
conducting two deterrent patrols in late
1971. Subsequently deployed to Holy Loch, Scotland, Tecumseh arrived in Scottish waters on 9 February 1972. She conducted 18 more deterrent patrols out of Holy Loch through 1976 and operates with the
Atlantic Fleet into 1980.
[Note: The above USS TECUMSEH (SSBN-628) history may, or may not, contain text provided by crew members of the USS TECUMSEH (SSBN-628), or by other non-crew members, and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]