USS John Adams (SSBN-620)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS John Adams.
USS John Adams (SSBN-620), a Lafayette-class ballistic missile submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Founding Father John Adams (1735–1826), the second President of the United States (1797–1801), and his son John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), the sixth President of the United States (1825–1829). Both names were used with the captains of the Blue and Gold crews alternately using the names John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
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USS John Adams in April 1964 | |
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Name | USS John Adams |
Namesake | John Adams (1735–1826), second President of the United States (1797–1801), and John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), sixth President of the United States (1825–1829) |
Ordered | 23 July 1960 |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine |
Laid down | 19 May 1961 |
Launched | 12 January 1963 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. James C. Manny |
Commissioned | 12 May 1964 |
Decommissioned | 24 March 1989 |
Stricken | 24 March 1989 |
Fate | Scrapping via Ship-Submarine Recycling Program completed 12 February 1996 |
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Class and type | Lafayette-class submarine |
Type | Ballistic missile submarine (hull design SCB-216)[1] |
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Length | 425 ft (130 m) |
Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
Draft | 31 ft 6 in (9.60 m) |
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Complement | Two crews (Blue and Gold), 13 officers and 130 enlisted men each |
Sensors and processing systems | BQS-4 sonar[1] |
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