 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| For RATING SHIRTS - Click on your Rating Abbreviation below: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Click on your Rating abbreviation above: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
U.S.S. NATHAN HALE
(SSBN-623)VIS UNITA FORTIOR
Click to view crew list
USS NATHAN HALE (SSBN-623) - a Lafayette-class submarine
In Commission 1963 to 1987SSBN-623 Deployments - Major Events
| Add a SSBN-623 Shellback Initiation | Add a SSBN-623 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
| Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OCT | 1962 | - | Keel Date: 2 OCT 1962 at General Dynamics Electric Boat Groton CT | ||
| JAN | 1963 | - | Launch Date: 12 JAN 1963 | ||
| NOV | 1963 | - | Commissioned: 23 NOV 1963 | ||
| JAN | 1964 | - | DEC | 1968 | Mediterranean |
| JAN | 1969 | - | JAN | 1969 | Panama Canal |
| DEC | 1969 | - | JUL | 1986 | Middle Pacific |
| NOV | 1971 | - | JAN | 1977 | Middle Pacific |
| SEP | 1975 | - | JAN | 1976 | North Atlantic |
| DEC | 1976 | - | FEB | 1977 | Four Missile Launch OT |
| AUG | 1979 | - | NOV | 1979 | Blue Nose - Arctic Circle |
| NOV | 1986 | - | NOV | 1986 | Decommisioning |
| JAN | 1987 | - | Decommissioned: 31 JAN 1987 | ||
SSBN-623 General Specifications
Class: Lafayette-class submarine
Named for: Nathan Hale (1755-1776)
Complement: 13 Officers and 130 Enlisted
Displacement: 7250 tons
Length: 425 feet
Beam: 33 feet
Flank Speed: 20 knots
Final Disposition: Entered Ship-Submarine Recycling Program 2 October 1991; recycling completed 5 April 1994
USS NATHAN HALE (SSBN-623)
Nathan
Hale (SSB(N)-623) was laid down 2 October 1961 by the
Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, Connecticut; launched
12 January 1963; sponsored by Mrs. George W. Anderson, Jr.; and commissioned 23
November 1963, Comdr. Joseph W. Russel (Blue Crew) and Comdr. Samuel S. Ellis
(Gold Crew) in command.
Following shakedown and demonstration-and-system operations,
in the Atlantic Missile Range, Nathan
Hale was assigned to SubRon 16 and homeported at Charleston, S.C., 21 May
1964. With two complete, equally trained crews, rotated at regular intervals to
maximize patrol on station time, Nathan
Hale has, since that time, conducted deterrent patrols as a unit of the
Atlantic Fleet.
[Note: The above USS NATHAN HALE (SSBN-623) history may, or may not, contain text provided by crew members of the USS NATHAN HALE (SSBN-623), or by other non-crew members, and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]