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Gertrude check BASE OFFICIALS Issue/Date 20130520 |
AMERICAN SUBMARINERS U. S. SUBMARINE VETERANS BREMERTON BASE P O. Box 465, Silverdale, WA 98383-0465 |
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Updated: 17 February 2012 Bremerton Base Officers Click On Image to E-mail The Executive Board (E-board)
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Bremerton Base Salutes The Crews of USS HENRY M. JACKSON (SSBN-730)
USS Henry M. Jackson (SSBN-730), is a United States Navy Ohio class ballistic missile submarine that has been in commission since 1984. She is the only U.S. Navy ship to have been named for United States Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson (1912–1983) of Washington and the only Ohio-class submarine not named after a U.S. state.
Henry M. Jackson originally
was to have been named USS Rhode Island. The contract to
build Rhode Island was awarded to the Electric Boat Division
of General Dynamics Corporation at Groton, Connecticut, on 6
June 1977 and her keel was laid down there on 19 January
1981. Shortly after Senator Jackson suddenly died in office
on 1 September 1983, Rhode Island was renamed Henry M.
Jackson, and the name Rhode Island was transferred to
another Ohio-class submarine, USS Rhode Island (SSBN-740).
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