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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 1993

SSBN-628 Deployments - Major Events

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Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
JUN1962-Keel Date: 1 JUN 1962
at Electric Boat Groton Connecticut
JUN1963-Launch Date: 22 JUN 1963
MAY1964-Commissioned: 29 MAY 1964
OCT1964-OCT1964Panama Canal
DEC1964-Shellback Initiation - 21 DEC 1964 - Pacific Ocean
DEC1964-MAR1965West Pac
DEC1964-MAR1965West Pac
OCT1970-Shellback Initiation - 1 OCT 1970 - Atlantic Ocean
APR1971-APR1971Collision with Sound Barge
SEP1971-DEC1971Blue Nose - Arctic Circle
MAY1973-JUL1973Blue Nose - Arctic Circle
MAR1976-MAY1976Blue Nose - Arctic Circle
AUG1980-OCT1980Blue Nose - Arctic Circle
JAN1993-JAN1993Panama Canal
JAN1993-Shellback Initiation - 15 JAN 1993 - Pacific Ocean
JUL1993-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]