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 | 179k | Submarine Silhouettes of 1960: Nautilus (SSN-571), Seawolf (SSN-575), Skate (SSN-578), Skipjack (SS-585), Triton (SSRN-586), Halibut (SSGN-587), Thresher (SSN-593), Tullibee (SSN-597), George Washington (SSBN-598), & Ethan Allen (SSBN-608) classes. | U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Ron Titus, courtesy of Ingersoll-Rand. Corp. | |
 | 187k | Nuclear Submarine Profiles 1960: Nautilus (SSN-571), Seawolf (SSN-575), Triton (SSRN-586), Skate (SSN-578) & Skipjack (SS-585) classes, Halibut (SSGN-587) & Tullibee (SSN-597) classes, George Washington (SSBN-598) & Thresher (SSN-593) classes. | US Navy photo courtesy of Ron Titus courtesy of Ingersoll-Rand. Corp. Photo i.d. courtesy of Dave Johnston. | |
 | 102k | A cutaway diagram of Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) by Electric Boat.
| U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 215k | Bow view of Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) in Mare Island dry dock #3 on 6 April 1960. | U.S. Navy photo # 47623-4-60, courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 208k | Stern view of Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) in Mare Island dry dock #3 on 6 April 1960. | U.S. Navy photo # 47624-4-60, courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 287k | The Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) departing Mare Island on her first builders trails on 2 Dec. 1960.
| U.S. Navy photo # 49937-12-60, courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 122k | In order to spice up some dull Navy life aboard ship, American Shuffleboard rep Sol Lipkin was called upon by the US Navy Officer and Chaplain of
theTheodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) to help get
a table shuffleboard installed to give the crew something competive to
do while spending days and months on underwater missions, including an
upcoming "shakedown" mission)... something more competive than watching
movies was their goal. The shuffleboard installation became part of the outfitting to-do list. It was installed on the topedo rack's steel structure that lifts up/down and the legs on the shuffleboard cradle had to be drastically shortened to accommodate to be the correct height needed for play from the shuffleboard's cradle. The tournament was MC'd by the Navy Commander (who was also a surgeon/doctor by trade). Sol Lipkin has a reel tape of this tournament that he is trying to locate so that it can be reproduced and preserved on more durable media. Sol does not recall the names of the Commander and Lieutenent (Sr. Grade Officer) that ended up as partners against two other crew members in the final match of the tournament, but does vividly recall the final shots of the tournament. The score was 20-20 (21 point game format) and the Captain had the last weight (hammer). His opponent threw a short weight, so it seemed almost definitely that the Captain would have no problem outpassing his opponent's short weight to capture the one point needed to win the tournament. However, it appears that someone tipped off the helmsman and with perfect timing, as the Captain threw his hammer to pass the short weight, the submarine took a tilt that placed the Captain's hammer into the "rough" (which was the Navy crew's term for when a weight went into the gutter)... so the two opposing crew members won without the hammer and with only a short weight on the board and were officially the tournament Champions! | Partial text courtesy of Dan Danielson. Photo courtesy of Sol Lipkin, Tom & Lynda French, The Board Talk Editors/Publishers). | |
 | 139k | Theodore Roosevelt's (SSBN-600) torpedo room and nuclear powered shuffle tableboard.
| Photo courtesy of Sol Lipkin, Tom & Lynda French, The Board Talk Editors/Publishers). | |
 | 139k | Theodore Roosevelt's (SSBN-600) torpedo room and nuclear powered shuffle tableboard.
| Photo courtesy of Sol Lipkin, Tom & Lynda French, The Board Talk Editors/Publishers). | |
 | 125k | Pages 1 & 2 of the Theodore Roosevelt's (SSBN-600) commissioning program, 13 Feb. 1961.
| U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 169k | Pages 3 & 4 of the Theodore Roosevelt's (SSBN-600) commissioning program, listing the Blue & Gold crews, 13 Feb. 1961.
| U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 262k | VADM F. N. Kivette, Commander, Western Sea Frontier receiving honors at commissioning ceremony of Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in dry dock 3, 13 Feb. 1961. | U.S. Navy photo # NY9 50405-2-61, courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 229k | Commissioning ceremony of Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in dry dock 3, 13 Feb. 1961. | U.S. Navy photo # NY9 50406-2-61, courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 256k | The colors are raised during the commissioning ceremony of Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) at Mare Island Shipyard in dry dock 3, 13 Feb. 1961. | U.S. Navy photo # NY9 50411-2-61, courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 60k | The Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) rounds North Island as she enters San Diego harbor on 22 Feb. 1961, one week after her commissioning. | USN photo. | |
 | 160k | A Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) seaman working at the controls of the sumarine. | Photographer: J. R. Eyerman, courtesy of time.com. via / images.google.com & Life. Photo added 12/29/08. | |
 | 164k | A view of the access hatches to the polaris missiles, February 1961. | Photographer: J. R. Eyerman, courtesy of time.com. via / images.google.com & Life. Photo added 12/29/08. | |
 | 160k | Theodore Roosevelt's (SSBN-600) Commanding Officer, USN Commander Oliver H. Perry Jr. | Photographer: J. R. Eyerman, courtesy of time.com. via / images.google.com & Life. Photo added 12/29/08. | |
 | 49k | Commemorative postal cover issued on the occasion of one of the Theodore Roosevelt's (SSBN-600) Polaris patrols, 1962. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle. | |
 | 168k | Port side view of the Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) off Diamond Head, Hawaii, possibly circa 1974. | Photo courtesy of John Hummel. | |
 | 81k | The Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) in 1974 at Cape Canaveral, Florida conducting missile test's. | USN photo courtesy of Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 101k | Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) with six open torpedo tubes in drydock. | Photo courtesy of John Wiles Communicator, Electrical Div. Officer, and DCA between 1976 and 1979, Gold and Combined Crew. | |
 | 70k | Night photo of the Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) in floating dry-dock in Guam '76. | Photo courtesy of John Wiles Communicator, Electrical Div. Officer, and DCA between 1976 and 1979, Gold and Combined Crew. | |
 | 83k | Trench 94, Hanford Site, Washington, 1994. Hull sections containing defueled reactor compartments of decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines are put in disposal trenches. Once full, the trench will be filled with dirt and buried. The compartments are expected to retain their integrity for more than 600 years. | USN photo & partial text courtesy of home.flash.net/~tomj/tunny/chop/rx. & submitted by Jack Treutle. | |
 | 569k | Sealed reactor compartments are shipped by barge out of Puget Sound Naval Base down the coast and along the Columbia River to the port of Benton. There the radioactively-contaminated hull sections are transferred to special multiwheeled high-load trailers for transport to the Hanford Reservation in Washington State. Pictured below is the burial ground for spent fuel of the following 77 nuclear reactor submarines as of March 2003: Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), Snook (SSN-592), George Washington (SSBN-598), Scamp (SSN-588), Robert E. Lee (SSBN-601), Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600), Dace (SSN-607), John Adams (SSBN-620), Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602), Barb (SSN-596), Ethan Allen (SSBN-608), Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), Pollack (SSN-603), Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685), James Monroe (SSBN-622), Skipjack (SS-585), Nathan Hale (SSBN-623), Plunger (SSN-595), Shark (SSN-591), Lafayette (SSBN-616), Sam Houston (SSBN-609), Jack (SSN-605), Haddo (SSN-604), Tinosa (SSN-606), Guardfish (SSN-612), Permit (SSN-594), Queenfish (SSN-651), Ulysses S. Grant (SSBN-631), John Marshall (SSBN-611), George C. Marshall (SSBN-654), Flasher (SSN-613), Guitarro (SSN-665), Alexander Hamilton (SSBN-617), George Washington Carver (SSBN-656), Tecumseh (SSBN-628), Halibut (SSGN-587), Will Rogers (SSBN-659), Henry L. Stimson (SSBN-655), Daniel Boone (SSBN-629), Greenling (SSN-614), John C. Calhoun (SSBN-630), Casimir Pulaski (SSBN-633), Skate (SSN-578), Sargo (SSN-583), Francis Scott Key (SSBN-657), Sturgeon (SSN-637), Benjamin Franklin (SSBN-640), Swordfish (SSN-579), Seadragon (SSN-584), Stonewall Jackson (SSBN-634), Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641), Hammerhead (SSN-663), Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-616) , Tullibee (SSN-597), Lewis & Clark (SSBN-644), Pargo (SSN-650), Seahorse (SSN-669), Gurnard (SSN-662), Flying Fish (SSN-673), Gato (SSN-615), Puffer (SSN-652), Seawolf (SSN-575), Baton Rouge (SSN-689), Bergall (SSN-667), Whale (SSN-638), Henry Clay (SSBN-625), James Madison (SSBN-627), Finback (SSN-670), Spadefish (SSN-668), Sunfish (SSN-649), George Bancroft (SSBN-643), Grayling (SSN-646), Pintado (SSN-672), Tunny (SSN-682), Archerfish (SSN-678), & Woodrow Wilson (SSBN-624). | USN photo & partial text courtesy of home.flash.net/~tomj/tunny/chop/rx. & submitted by Jack Treutle. | |
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