USS Daniel Boone (SSBN-629)

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USS Daniel Boone SSBN-629
USS Daniel Boone (SSBN-629) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 1 February 1991
Career
Name: USS Daniel Boone
Namesake: Daniel Boone
Ordered: 21 July 1961
Builder: Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California
Laid down: 6 February 1962
Launched: 22 June 1963
Sponsored by: Mrs. James H. Wakelin, Jr.
Commissioned: 23 April 1964
Decommissioned: 18 February 1994
Struck: 18 February 1994
Motto: New Trails to Blaze
Fate: Scrapping via Ship-Submarine Recycling Program completed 4 November 1994
General characteristics
Class and type: James Madison-class submarine (hull design SCB-216 Mod 3)[1][clarification needed]
Displacement: 7,320 long tons (7,440 t) (submerged)[2]
•8,240 long tons (8,370 t) (submerged)[2]
Length: 425 feet (130 m)
Beam: 33 feet (10 m)
Draught: 32 ft (9.8 m)[2]
Propulsion: One S5W reactor
•two geared steam turbines =15,000 shp (11,000 kW)
•one shaft driving one 7-bladed screw
Speed: Over 20 knots
Test depth: over 400 ft (120 m)
Complement: Two crews (Blue and Gold), 15 officers and 132 enlisted men each[2]
Armament: 4 × 21 inches (530 mm) Mark 65[2] torpedo tubes bow; Mark 48 torpedoes, 16 vertical launch missile tubes amidships, various small arms

USS Daniel Boone (SSBN-629), a James Madison-class ballistic missile submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Daniel Boone (1734–1820), the pioneer and frontiersman.

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[edit] Construction and commissioning

The contract to build Daniel Boone was awarded to Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California, on 21 July 1961 and her keel was laid down there on 6 February 1962. She was launched on 22 June 1963 sponsored by Mrs. James H. Wakelin, Jr., the wife of Dr. James H. Wakelin, Jr.,a physicist who was the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development from 1959 until 1964. Daniel Boone was commissioned on 23 April 1964, with Commander George P. Steele, III, in command of the Blue Crew and Lieutenant Commander Alan B. Crabtree in command of the Gold Crew.

[edit] Operational history

During her first major overhaul , like the rest of her class[clarification needed], Daniel Boone was retrofitted with Poseidon C-3 missiles and the associated Mark 88 firecontrol system.[2] Poseidon was replaced by Trident C-4 missiles and on 6 September 1980, Boone became the first James Madison operational with the new missile.[2]

On 7 April 1987 Daniel Boone ran aground in the James River at Newport News, Virginia.

[edit] Decommissioning and disposal

Daniel Boone was decommissioned on 18 February 1994 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register the same day. Her scrapping via the Nuclear-Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington, was completed on 4 November 1994.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Adcock, Al. (1993), U.S. Ballistic Missile Submarines, Carrolltown, Texas: Squadron Signal, pp. 30, (4 also credits mythical interwar Albacore and Trout classes, however) 
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Adcock, Al. (1993), U.S. Ballistic Missile Submarines, Carrolltown, Texas: Squadron Signal, p. 30 


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