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Career | |
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Awarded: | 29 July 1963 |
Laid down: | 24 August 1964 |
Launched: | 14 August 1965 |
Commissioned: | 15 June 1966 |
Fate: | submarine recycling |
Stricken: | 18 March 1993 |
General Characteristics | |
Displacement: | 7250 tons |
Length: | 425 feet |
Beam: | 33 feet |
Draft: | 33 feet |
Powerplant: | S5W reactor |
Speed: | |
Complement: | two crews of 100 oficers and men each |
Armament: | 16 Polaris or Poseidon missiles, four 21-inch torpedo tubes |
Following shakedown, George Washington Carver's first patrol began 12 December 1966.
In 1991, George Washington Carver's missile tubes were disabled and she was redesignated an attack submarine with the [[hull classification symbol SSN-656.
George Washington Carver was decommissioned on 18 March 1993 at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, where she was disposed of through the Ship and Submarine Recycling Program on 12 March 1994.
See USS George Washington Carver for other ships of the same name.
References
This article includes information collected from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.