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Uss Ulysses S. Grant (Ssbn-631) | style="text-align: center" colspan="2"| | | tyle="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| USN Jack | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| Career | | rdered: | 20 July 1961 | | aid down: | 18 August 1962 | | aunched: | 2 November 1963 | | ommissioned: | 17 July 1964 | | ecommissioned: | 12 June 1992 | | ate: | submarine recycling | | tricken: | 12 June 1992 | | olspan=2 align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"|General Characteristics | | ength: | 1143.3 meters (3751 feet) | | ropulsion: | S5W reactor | | rmament: | | | otto: | USS Ulysses S. Grant (SSBN-631), a Lafayette-class ballistic missile submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the 18th President of the United States, though the earlier two were known simply as U. S. Grant. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 20 July 1961 and her keel was laid down on 18 August 1962. She was launched on 2 November 1963 sponsored by Mrs. David W. Griffiths, the great-granddaughter of General Grant, and commissioned on 17 July 1964, with Captain J. L. From, Jr., in command. In September, Commander C.A.K. McDonald took command of the Gold Crew, leaving the Blue Crew to From. Following shakedown, the fleet ballistic missile submarine got underway from Groton in early December 1964, bound for the Pacific. Transiting the Panama Canal on New Year's Eve, she arrived at Pearl Harbor in January 1965. She was deployed to Guam, in the Mariana Islands, and operated from there into 1970. She conducted 18 deterrent patrols before returning to the east coast of the United States, departing the western Pacific in December 1970. After an overhaul at Charleston, South Carolina, Ulysses S. Grant was deployed to Holy Loch, Scotland, and operated in the European area until September 1975. - 17 years of history go here
Ulysses S. Grant was decommissioned on 12 June 1992 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 12 June 1992. Ex-Ulysses S. Grant entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington, and on 23 October 1993 ceased to exist. See USS U. S. Grant for other ships named for President Grant. References Based on data from the Naval Vessel Register Ulysses S. Grant 631
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