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 | 93k | Oil on canvas, 1891 ca. entitled "Patrick Henry" by the artist George Bagby Matthews (1857 - 1943) after Thomas Sully". Patrick Henry, born in Hanover Co., Va., in 1736, was licensed to practice law in 1760 and became an immediate success. On 20 May 1765 he became a member of the House of Burgesses, defending the western and northern counties against the tidewater region. He was the leader of a new party between 1765 and 1770, thereafter consolidating the opposition to Great Britian. Chosen delegate to the first Continental Congress, he supported radical, nationalistic measures. On 20 March 1775, at an assembly meeting in Richmond, he uttered his famous saying "Give me liberty, or give me death." In May 1776 he was elected Governor of Virginia and twice reelected. He was Governor again 1784–86. He died at Red Hill Plantation, Charlotte Co., Va., 1799. | Photo & text courtesy of senate.gov & submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 1.13k | Shipyard Rushes Polaris Sub for Launching, 17 September 1959. Night shift works on the U.S. Navy's atomic powered ballistic missile submarine is rushed towards its Tuesday, 22 September 1959, launching at Groton, Connecticut. Patrick Henry's (SSBN-599) launching will mark a construction record for nuclear submarines, less than sixteen months having elapsed since the laying of the keel. The 380-foot, 5,400 ton boat is designed to fire solid-fueled Polaris ballistic missiles from submerged positions. It will be the seventh atomic submarine launching by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation, which ushered in the age of nuclear propulsion in 1954 with the launching of Nautilus (SSN-571). | USN photo # USN 710534, courtesy of the National Museum of the U.S. Navy, via flickr.com. | |
 | 1.05k | Mrs. Leslie Arends, wife of the congressman from Illinois, christening the Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) on 22 September 1959. | USN photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 142k | The Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) meets the Atlantic Ocean on 22 September 1959. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
 | 2.83k | Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) entering the water during her launching on 22 September 1959. | USN photo from the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum via Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 718k | Launching Program PDF of the Patrick Henry (SSBN-599). | PDF courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 179k | Submarine Silhouettes of 1960: Nautilus (SSN-571), Seawolf (SSN-575), Skate (SSN-578), Skipjack (SS-585), Triton (SSRN-586), Halibut (SSGN-587), Thresher (SSN-593), Tullibee (SSN-597), George Washington (SSBN-598), & Ethan Allen (SSBN-608) classes. | USN photo submitted by Ron Titus, courtesy of Ingersoll-Rand. Corp. | |
 | 187k | Nuclear Submarine Profiles 1960: Nautilus (SSN-571), Seawolf (SSN-575), Triton (SSRN-586), Skate (SSN-578) & Skipjack (SS-585) classes, Halibut (SSGN-587) & Tullibee (SSN-597) classes, George Washington (SSBN-598) & Thresher (SSN-593) classes. | USN photo courtesy of Ron Titus courtesy of Ingersoll-Rand. Corp. Photo i.d. courtesy of David Johnston |
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 | 66k | Capt. Harold E. Shear with a birds eye view from his perch atop the Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) shortly after commissioning on 9 March 1960. | USN photo. Partial text courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). |
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 | 804k | Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) on trial on 28 March 1960. | USN photo # NPC 1047225, courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
 | 355k | Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) trial by water on April 1960. | USN photo # USN 1047431, courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
 | 348k | George Washington (SSBN-598) (foreground) & the Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), the US Navy's two atomic powered missile launching submarines head for Long Island Sound after the Patrick Henry was commissioned here today. The two vessels will undergo firing tests together for the first time. | Photo courtesy of Tommy Trampp. | |
 | 1.34k | Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) on May 1960. | USN photo # NPC 1048492, courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
 | 109k | The US sub Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) during the firing of a Polaris missile in Newport, RI., July 1960. The photo actually shows a test of the missile ejection system. A real missile would have never been shot this close to shore with boats around and men standing on the forward deck. | Text i.d. courtesy of David Johnston Photographer: Joseph Scherschel, courtesy of life.time.com | |
 | 70k | A truly happy smile lights up President Dwight D. Eisenhower's face while at the controls of the Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), July 1960. | USN photo courtesy of Jack Treutle /Jim Warrick, FTCS SS USN Ret. Gold 1962-1969. | |
 | 115k | The back of the grin on President Dwight D. Eisenhower's face while at the controls of the Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), July 1960. | Photographer: Joseph Scherschel, courtesy of life.time.com | |
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NR | Shading his eyes, President Eisenhower watches with Rear Admiral William Raborn as a dummy Polaris missile is fired from the nuclear submarine Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) off Newport, R. I. | A.P. Wirephoto. Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from Evening Star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 26 July 1960, Image 5, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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 | 128k | Bow view, topside of the Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) on 22 July 1960. | USN photo # NPC 1051228, courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
 | 1.31k | Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) on 25 July 1960. | USN photo NPC KN-1061, courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
 | 426k | Writing under tab reads "Shop 931" Note states, "Propeller Check - Propeller for the Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) gets going over in Shipyard Machine Shop.", August 1960. | Photo courtesy of Lowcountry Digital Library | |
 | 104k | Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) with President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his party on board, August 1960. The Presidential boat Barbara Anne is alongside. | Official USN photo # NH 68576, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center & submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 333k | AT CONTROLS; Off Groton CT., Admiral Hyman Rickover, right, chief of the Navy's atomic ship program, and Dr. Edward Teller, noted physicist, were photoraphed at the controls of the nuclear submarine Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) Saturday, 15 August 1960. | AP Wire photo courtesy of Tommy Trampp. | |
 | 68k | Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN, Chief of Naval Operations,on board Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) during the countdown for a "Polaris" missile launch, off Cape Canaveral, Florida, 22 September 1960. The man at right is Stephen D. Gage. | Official USN photo # NH 55875, courtesy of the USNHC. | |
 | 59k | Capt. Harold E. Shear & on the left (CO Blue crew) and CO R.L.J. Long JR. on right, aboard the Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), 1960. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle /Jim Warrick, FTCS SS USN Ret. Gold Crew, 1962-1969. | |
 | 25k | Commemorative post card marking the first Polaris missile fired by Patrick Henry's (SSBN-599) Gold crew, 20 October 1960. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle, Gold Crew, 1962-1969. | |
 | 2.42k | Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) departing Charleston, SC on 30 December 1960. | USN photo from the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum via Darryl L. Baker. | |
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NR | 1,000 Scots Stage Noisy Protest Against U. S. Polaris Missile Base This is part of crowd of nearly 1,000 demonstrators who marched to Holy Loch, Scotland, yesterday to protest establishment of the Polaris missile submarine base there. ......NEW POLARIS SUB TO TAKE STATION |
Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from Evening Star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 05 March 1961, Image 4, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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 | 288k | Transfer of a Polaris Missile between Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) and Proteus (AS-19) at Holy Loch, Dunoon, Scotland, 11 March 1961. | USN photo # NPC 1053952, courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
 | 110k | Transfer of a Polaris Missile between Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) and Proteus (AS-19) at Holy Loch, Dunoon, Scotland, 11 March 1961. | USN photo. | |
 | 98k | Capt. Walter Schlech (L) w. Cmdr. Robert Long (R) on the bridge of Polaris Missile sub Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) in Scotland, December 1961. | Photographer: John Dominis, courtesy of life.time.com | |
 | 107k | Polaris missile sub Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) cruising on Clyde River on patrol. | Photographer: John Dominis, courtesy of life.time.com | |
 | 141k | Frogmen on board the Polaris missile sub Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) checking for any underwater damage, December 1961. | Photographer: John Dominis, courtesy of life.time.com | |
 | 54k | Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) returning from patrol, early 1960s. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle /Jim Warrick, FTCS SS USN Ret. Gold Crew, 1962-1969. | |
 | 458k | Black and white image of a submarine number 599 in the water after having launched a Polaris ballistic missile, early 1960s. | Photo by Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago/Getty Images, courtesy of gettyimages.com. | |
 | 156k | Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) off Guam, 1976. | USN photo # 137437-7-76 courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 13k | The last Polaris missile fired by Patrick Henry's (SSBN-599) Gold crew leaves the boat sometime during the late 1970's. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle, Gold Crew, 1962-1969. | |
 | 213k | Crewmembers of the Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) on the missile deck. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
 | 111k | Stern view in drydock. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
 | 391k | Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) gets sandblasted in drydock. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
 | 93k | Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) following overhaul. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
 | 1.07k | Welcome Aboard PDF of the Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), circa 1972. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
 | 2.13k | Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) while undergoing overhaul at Mare Island, was awarded the Battle "E" for fiscal year 1976 at the shipyard on 8 November 1976. Left to right: RADM C. H. Griffth (COMSUBPAC), CDR D. R. Ferrier (CO, Patrick Henry) and MMCM Clyde Corbin (COB, Patrick Henry). | USN photo from the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum via Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 782k | Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) was presented the Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award at Mare Island on 8 November 1976. Left to right: VADM R. L. J. Long (Vice Chief of Naval Operations for Submarine Warfare) RADM C. H. Griffth (COMSUBPAC), CDR D. R. Ferrier (CO, Patrick Henry) and MMCM Clyde Corbin (COB, Patrick Henry). | USN photo from the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum via Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 122k | Decommissioning of the Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) on 25 May 1984. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
 | 505k | Removal of the missile compartment. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
 | 1.39k | Twenty page Decommissioning Ceremony PDF of the Patrick Henry (SSN-599). | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
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683k | An aerial view of a section of the Ship Intermediate Maintenance Facility at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on 17 May 1993.
One submarine tender and 16 decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines are shown including the Seawolf (SSN-575); six George Washington, and Lafayette class SSBN's (with their missile sections cut out) plus several Skate, Skipjack, Permit and Sturgeon class SSN's. All are awaiting scrapping. Bottom row, from left to right Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), Skipjack (SS-585), Snook (SSN-592), Henry Clay (SSBN-625), Lapon (SSN-661), Dace (SSN-607), Skate (SSN-578), Swordfish (SSN-579), Sargo (SSN-583), Seadragon (SSN-584). Across the pier are Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), and not in view, Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), George Washington (SSBN-598), Barb (SSN-596) & Sea Devil (SSN-664). |
Official USN photo # DN-ST-95-01863, by Calvin Larsen, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. Photo i.d. courtesy of David Johnston. | |
 | 291k | "Sign of the times." March 1994 photo of Nuclear submarines at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard waiting in line for scrapping. Top row left to right are Ethan Allen (SSBN-608), Seawolf (SSN-575), Plunger (SSN-595), Shark (SSN-591), Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636), Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685) alongside Sperry (AS-12), with Triton (SSRN-586) across the pier from the Sperry . Bottom row, from left to right Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), Skipjack (SS-585), Snook (SSN-592), Henry Clay (SSBN-625), Lapon (SSN-661), Dace (SSN-607), Skate (SSN-578), Swordfish (SSN-579), Sargo (SSN-583), Seadragon (SSN-584). Across the pier are Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), and not in view, Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), George Washington (SSBN-598), Barb (SSN-596) & Sea Devil (SSN-664). There are so many submarines at PSNSY that the yard is running out of pier space. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 25k | Commemorative post card marking the scrapping of the Seawolf (SSN-575), Snook (SSN-592), Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), Henry Clay (SSBN-625) and Baton Rouge (SSN-689), 31 August 1997 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 83k | Trench 94, Hanford Site, Washington, 1994. Hull sections containing defueled reactor compartments of decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines are put in disposal trenches. Once full, the trench will be filled with dirt and buried. The compartments are expected to retain their integrity for more than 600 years. | USN photo submitted by Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 569k | Sealed reactor compartments are shipped by barge out of Puget Sound Naval Base down the coast and along the Columbia River to the port of Benton. There the radioactively-contaminated hull sections are transferred to special multiwheeled high-load trailers for transport to the Hanford Reservation in Washington State. Pictured below is the burial ground for reactor compartments of the following 77 nuclear reactor submarines as of March 2003: Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), Snook (SSN-592), George Washington (SSBN-598), Scamp (SSN-588), Robert E. Lee (SSBN-601), Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600), Dace (SSN-607), John Adams (SSBN-620), Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602), Barb (SSN-596), Ethan Allen (SSBN-608), Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), Pollack (SSN-603), Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685), James Monroe (SSBN-622), Skipjack (SS-585), Nathan Hale (SSBN-623), Plunger (SSN-595), Shark (SSN-591), Lafayette (SSBN-616), Sam Houston (SSBN-609), Jack (SSN-605), Haddo (SSN-604), Tinosa (SSN-606), Guardfish (SSN-612), Permit (SSN-594), Queenfish (SSN-651), Ulysses S. Grant (SSBN-631), John Marshall (SSBN-611), George C. Marshall (SSBN-654), Flasher (SSN-613), Guitarro (SSN-665), Alexander Hamilton (SSBN-617), George Washington Carver (SSBN-656), Tecumseh (SSBN-628), Halibut (SSGN-587), Will Rogers (SSBN-659), Henry L. Stimson (SSBN-655), Daniel Boone (SSBN-629), Greenling (SSN-614), John C. Calhoun (SSBN-630), Casimir Pulaski (SSBN-633), Skate (SSN-578), Sargo (SSN-583), Francis Scott Key (SSBN-657), Sturgeon (SSN-637), Benjamin Franklin (SSBN-640), Swordfish (SSN-579), Seadragon (SSN-584), Stonewall Jackson (SSBN-634), Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641), Hammerhead (SSN-663), Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-658), Tullibee (SSN-597), Lewis & Clark (SSBN-644), Pargo (SSN-650), Seahorse (SSN-669), Gurnard (SSN-662), Flying Fish (SSN-673), Gato (SSN-615), Puffer (SSN-652), Seawolf (SSN-575), Baton Rouge (SSN-689), Bergall (SSN-667), Whale (SSN-638), Henry Clay (SSBN-625), James Madison (SSBN-627), Finback (SSN-670), Spadefish (SSN-668), Sunfish (SSN-649), George Bancroft (SSBN-643), Grayling (SSN-646), Pintado (SSN-672), Tunny (SSN-682), Archerfish (SSN-678), & Woodrow Wilson (SSBN-624). As time passes & more boats are retired from service and their reactors are brought here, so the numbers rise. In this photo dated November 2009, 98 nuclear submarines and six nuclear cruisers have been recycled. For an up to date view, click here | USN photo submitted by Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). Insert link courtesy of wikimedia.org |
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185k | Moored submarines awaiting their final fate at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA sometime in 1996: From left to right: Shark (SSN-591), Plunger (SSN-595), Snook (SSN-592) & Patrick Henry (SSBN-599). |
Photograph courtesy of Ray Arntson via btrosper.com. | |
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