USS Nathan Hale (SSBN-623)
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| Career | |
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| Awarded: | February 3 1961 |
| Laid down: | October 2 1962 |
| Launched: | January 12 1963 |
| Commissioned: | November 23 1963 |
| Fate: | submarine recycling |
| Stricken: | January 31 1986 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 7250 tons surfaced, 8250 tons submerged |
| Length: | 425 feet |
| Beam: | 33 feet |
| Draft: | 31.5 |
| Power Plant: | S5W reactor |
| Speed: | 16-20 knots surfaced, 22-25 knots submerged |
| Depth: | 1300 feet |
| Complement: | two crews of 13 officers and 130 men each |
| Armament: | 16 Polaris missiles or Poseidon missiles, four 21-inch torpedo tubes |
USS Nathan Hale (SSBN 623) was the sixth Lafayette Class nuclear powered fleet ballistic missile submarine produced. Named for Captain Nathan Hale who served most famously as a spy during the American Revolutionary War.
The contractor for her construction was awarded on February 3 1961. Construction began on October 2 1962 by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched January 12 1963, sponsored by the wife of Admiral George Whelan Anderson, Jr. and commissioned on November 23 1963.
She entered service on May 21 1964, homeported in Charleston, South Carolina and performing deterrent patrols as a member of the Atlantic Fleet.
She was deactivated in May 1986, decommissioned on November 3 1986 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on January 31 1986. She entered the Navy's Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Bremerton, Washington on October 2 1991, being classed as scrapped on April 5 1994.