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 | 93k | A statue of Nathan Hale, stands proudly in front of Tribune Tower, a memorial to one of a America's heroes, a true patriot. The statue was erected by the Chicago Tribune, and dedicated on 4 June 1940. It is a replica of Bela Lyon Pratt's 1912 statue of Hale that sits on the old campus of Yale University and another installed in his birthplace of Coventry, Connecticut. | Photo courtesy of Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 553k | Nathan Hale (SSBN-623) at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT., taken a few days before her launching on 12 January 1963. I believe that the ship on the right is the Daniel Webster (SSBN-626). | Photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 300k | Mrs. George W. Anderson, Jr., the wife of the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), George Whelan Anderson, Jr, in charge of the US blockade of Cuba during Soviet missile crisis in 1962, sponsored the Nathan Hale (SSBN-623). | Text courtesy of arlingtoncemetery.net. USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. |
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 | 333k | A.P. Wirephoto of the Nathan Hale (SSBN-623) as she slides down the ways at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT., on 12 January 1963. | Photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 873k | Nathan Hale (SSBN-623) is now waterbourne at General Dynamics Electric Boat on 12 January 1963. | Photo from the files of the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum via Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 497k | Cover of the launching program of the Nathan Hale (SSBN-623) at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT., 12 January 1963. | Photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 1.34k | Alexander Hamilton (SSBN-617) commissioning at General Dynamics Electric Boat on 27 June 1963. Tecumseh (SSBN-628) is being outfitted alongside. The Nathan Hale (SSBN-623) appears in the top right. | Photo from the files of the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum via Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 116k | The Nathan Hale (SSBN-623) possibly during her initial sea trials off the east coast, 13-14 October 1963. | Official USN photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr. | |
 | 1.79k | The Polaris submarine Nathan Hale (SSBN-623) the nation's 14th missile-firing submarine, is shown under way during initial sea trials off the east coast, 13-14 October 1963. | Courtesy of history.navy.mil | |
 | 919k | The Nathan Hale (SSBN-623) crowd at the commissioning at General Dynamics Electric Boat on 23 November 1963. The Daniel Webster (SSBN-626) is the boat to the right, I believe. She would be commissioned on 9 April 1964. | Photo from the files of the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum via Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 832k | Colors going up at the commissioning at General Dynamics Electric Boat on 23 November 1963. | Photo from the files of the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum via Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 18k | Commemorative postal cover marking the occasion of the Nathan Hale's (SSBN-623) commissioning, 23 November 1963. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 1.13k | Ten page PDF Welcome Aboard pamphlet for the Nathan Hale (SSBN-623). | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 272k | Three days before the 4th of July 1965 Nathan Hale (SSBN-623) sails. | USN photo # NPC KN-11783, courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 214k | Nathan Hale (SSBN-623) on 1 July 1965. | USN photo # NPC KN-11783, courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 158k | Nathan Hale (SSBN-623) being moored at Pier 7 USN Underwater Sound Lab on 19 June 1969 after shifting berths from across the Thames River at Electric Boat, buildings observed in the background are in the EB Groton shipyard. | Text I.d. via Len Twiggs ex 623 Blue 1969 - 1973 USN photo # NPC K-46328, courtesy of pelicanharborsubvets.com & submitted by Bill Gonyo. |
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 | 115k | Commemorative postal cover marking the occasion of the Nathan Hale's (SSBN-623) firing of a Polaris missile at Cape Kennedy during a DASO operation by her Gold crew, 30 September 1969. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 0862318 | 1.64k | UGM-73A "Poseidon" C-3 Missile is launched from Nathan Hale (SSBN-623) during tests in the Atlantic, 24 September 1975. | Photo KN-23927 courtesy of history.navy.mil | |
 | 25k | Commemorative post card marking the decommissioning of the Nathan Hale (SSBN-623) on 3 November 1986. | Courtesy of Richard Leonhardt. | |
 | 107k | Decommissioning Invitation for the Nathan Hale (SSBN-623), held at Naval Base Norfolk on 3 November 1986. | Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
 | 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 spent fuel 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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