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Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) (SSN-600)
Mockup - Keel Laying

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George Washington Class Ballistic Missile Submarine: Authorized as Scamp (SSN-588); Laid down as Scamp (SSN-600), 20 May 1958, at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA.; Renamed and redesignated Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600), 6 November 1958; Launched, 3 October 1959; Commissioned, USS Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600), 13 February 1961; Decommissioned and simultaneously struck from the Naval Register, 1 December 1982; Final Disposition, disposed of through NPSSRP (Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 24 March 1995.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 5,946 t., Submerged: 6,700 t.; Length 382'; Beam 33'; Draft 29'; Speed, Surfaced 16 kts, Submerged 20+ kts; Complement 139; Test Depth 700'; Armament, 16 missile tubes; six 21" torpedo tubes, Propulsion, S5W Pressurized Water Nuclear Reactor, 2 geared turbines at 15,000 shp, one propeller.

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156k	Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (27 October 1858 – 6 January 1919), was the twenty-sixth President of the United States, and a leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Movement. He became President of the United States at the age of 42. He served in many roles including Governor of New York, historian, naturalist, explorer, author, and soldier. Roosevelt is most famous for his personality: his energy, his vast range of interests and achievements, his model of masculinity, and his "cowboy" persona. As Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy, he prepared for and advocated war with Spain in 1898. He organized and helped command the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, the Rough Riders, during the Spanish-American War. Returning to New York as a war hero, he was elected Republican governor in 1899. He was a professional historian, a lawyer, a naturalist and explorer of the Amazon Basin; his 35 books include works on outdoor life, natural history, the American frontier, political history, naval history, and his autobiography. In 1901, as Vice President, the 42 year-old Roosevelt succeeded President William McKinley after McKinley's assassination. He is the youngest person to become President (John F. Kennedy is the youngest elected President). Roosevelt was a Progressive reformer who sought to move the dominant Republican Party into the Progressive camp. He distrusted wealthy businessmen and dissolved forty monopolistic corporations as a "trust buster". He was clear, however, to show he did not disagree with trusts and capitalism in principle but was only against corrupt, illegal practices. His "Square Deal" promised a fair shake for both the average citizen (through regulation of railroad rates and pure food and drugs) and the businessmen. As an outdoorsman, he promoted the conservation movement, emphasizing efficient use of natural resources. After 1906 he attacked big business and suggested the courts were biased against labor unions. In 1910, he broke with his friend and anointed successor William Howard Taft, but lost the Republican nomination to Taft and ran in the 1912 election on his own one-time Bull Moose ticket. Roosevelt beat Taft in the popular vote and pulled so many Progressives out of the Republican Party that Democrat Woodrow Wilson won in 1912, and the conservative faction took control of the Republican Party for the next two decades. Roosevelt negotiated for the U.S. to take control of the Panama Canal and its construction in 1904; he felt the Canal's completion was his most important and historically significant international achievement. He was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize, winning its Peace Prize in 1906, for negotiating the peace in the Russo-Japanese War. Historian Thomas Bailey, who disagreed with Roosevelt's policies, nevertheless concluded, "Roosevelt was a great personality, a great activist, a great preacher of the moralities, a great controversialist, a great showman. He dominated his era as he dominated conversations....the masses loved him; he proved to be a great popular idol and a great vote getter." His image stands alongside Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln on Mount Rushmore. Surveys of scholars have consistently ranked him from third to seventh on the list of greatest American presidents.	Photo from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540, courtesy of Bill Gonyo. Photo added 02/02/08.
168k	The start of a full scale mock up of the engineering compartments of the then (SSBN-600) at Mare Island on 21 Feb 1958.	U.S. Navy photo # 38251-2-58, courtesy of Darryl Baker.
129k	A progress view of the full scale mock up of the engineering compartments of the then (SSBN-600) at Mare Island on 5 March 1958. This is a stern view looking forward.	U.S. Navy photo # 38395-3-58, courtesy of Darryl Baker.
212k	The first hull section of (SSBN-600) is seen on the building ways at Mare Island on 24 April 1958.	U.S. Navy photo # 39027-4-58, courtesy of Darryl Baker.
185k	Various hull sections under fabrication at Mare Island's berth 15 for the then (SSBN-600) on 24 April 1958. Note spare 8" gun turret in background which is a hold over from WWII.	U.S. Navy photo # 39028-4-58, courtesy of Darryl Baker.
185k	A progress view of the full scale mock up of the engineering compartments of the then (SSBN-600) at Mare Island on 15 May 1958. This is a stern view looking forward.	U.S. Navy photo # 39285-5-58, courtesy of Darryl Baker.
207k	RADM M. J. Lawrence, Shipyard Commander speaking at keel laying of Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 20 May 1958.	U.S. Navy photo # 39329-5-58, courtesy of Darryl Baker.
96k	RADM M. J. Lawrence, Shipyard Commander authenticating keel of Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 20 May 1958.	U.S. Navy photo # 39328-5-58, courtesy of Darryl Baker.
247k	The shipyard chaplain gives the invocation at the keel laying ceremonies for the (SSBN-600) (not yet named *Theodore Roosevelt* ) at Mare Island on 20 May 1958.	U.S. Navy photo # 39327-5-58, courtesy of Darryl Baker.
70k	RADM E. W. Grenfell (COMSUBPAC) speaks at the keel laying of the then (SSBN-600) at Mare Island on 20 May 1958.	U.S. Navy photo # 39330-5-58, courtesy of Darryl Baker.
95k	Capt. E. J. Fahy (Production Officer) and honorary keel layers L. L. Lundbery (Master Shop 64) and W. N. Sylva (Foreman, Shop 11) right at the keel laying ceremonies for the then (SSBN-600) at Mare Island on 20 May 1958.	U.S. Navy photo # 39331-5-58, courtesy of Darryl Baker.
154k	Capt. E. J. Fahy (Production Officer Mare Island), RADM M. J. Lawrence (Shipyard Commander Mare Island) and RADM E. W. Grenfell (COMSUBPAC) after keel was laid for (SSBN-600) (later Theodore Roosevelt (SSGN-600) ) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 20 May 1958.	U.S. Navy photo # 39332-5-58, courtesy of Darryl Baker.
229k	Full scale mock up of the engineering compartments for the (SSBN-600) (later Theodore Roosevelt (SSGN-600) ) at Mare Island on 27 May 1958.	U.S. Navy photo # 39422-5-58, courtesy of Darryl Baker.
158k	Full scale mock up of the engine room looking aft of the (SSBN-600) (later Theodore Roosevelt (SSGN-600) ) at Mare Island on 9 June 1958.	U.S. Navy photo # 39616-6-58, courtesy of Darryl Baker.