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 | 108k | Thomas Alva Edison, born 11 February 1847 in Milan, Ohio, was one of the most prolific and imaginative inventors in world history. The importance of his accomplishments was highlighted when Congress in 1928 awarded him a gold medal for development and application of inventions which revolutionized civilization. Much of his work was of direct benefit to the Navy. He died 18 October 1931 in West Orange, N.J. | Photo from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540, courtesy of Bill Gonyo. Photo added 02/02/08. | |
 | 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. | |
 | 78k | Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), prelaunch photo, at Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT., June 1961. | Courtesy of Gary E. Flynn, USN-RET ex-GSSN, MT3 (SS), ETC (SS), and CWO-4. | |
 | 29k | Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), sliding down the building ways at Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT., 15 June 1961. | Courtesy of Gary E. Flynn, USN-RET ex-GSSN, MT3 (SS), ETC (SS), and CWO-4. | |
 | 143k | Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610) sliding down the ways at Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT., 15 June 1961. | U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Electric Boat. | |
 | 104k | Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), sliding down the ways at Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT., 15 June 1961. | U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Electric Boat. | |
 | 29k | Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), waterborne at Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT., 15 June 1961. | Courtesy of Gary E. Flynn, USN-RET ex-GSSN, MT3 (SS), ETC (SS), and CWO-4. | |
 | 124k | Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610) is shown with her decks awash in Long Island Sound after commissioning, March 1962.
| Courtesy of Jack Treutle. | |
 | 46k | Commemorative post mark honoring Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610) firing the first Polaris missle, 23 May 1962. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle. | |
 | 30k | President Kennedy at the periscope of the Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), 14 June 1962. | Courtesy of Gary E. Flynn, USN-RET ex-GSSN, MT3 (SS), ETC (SS), and CWO-4. | |
 | 98k | Commemorative post mark honoring Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610) first Blue Crew patrol, 15 Feb. 1963. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle. | |
 | 82k | The Submarine Tender Hunley (AS-31) in 1963 with her hammer-head crane in use transferring a missile with the Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610). | US Navy photo courtesy of tendertale.com & submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 78k | The Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610) makes her way along the coast, circa 1966. | USN photo courtesy of pelicanharborsubvets.com. | |
 | 48k | Bow view of the Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610) entering Dry Dock 5 in October of 1966. She was the first SSBN to be given a complete overhaul, including fuel replacement.
| U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Robert Hall. | |
 | 58k | Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610) during her refueling overhaul in October of 1966. | U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Robert Hall. | |
 | 43k | Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610) in Dry Dock 5 at Charleston, S.C. in 5 September 1967.
| U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Robert Hall. | |
 | 50k | Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), underway, port side view, date and place unknown. | Courtesy of globalsecurity.org | |
 | 31k | Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), date and place unknown. | Courtesy of US Navy. | |
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683k | An aerial view of a section of the Ship Intermediate Maintenance Facility at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on 17 May 1993.
One submarine tender and 16 decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines are shown including the Seawolf (SSN-575); six George Washington, and Lafayette class SSBN's (with their missile sections cut out) plus several Skate, Skipjack, Permit and Sturgeon class SSN's. All are awaiting scrapping. Bottom row, from left to right Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), Skipjack (SS-585), Snook (SSN-592), Henry Clay (SSBN-625), Lapon (SSN-661), Dace (SSN-607), Skate (SSN-578), Swordfish (SSN-579), Sargo (SSN-583) , Seadragon (SSN-584). Across the pier are Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), and not in view, Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), George Washington (SSBN-598),Barb (SSN-596) & Sea Devil (SSN-664). |
Official U.S. Navy Photograph # DN-ST-95-01863, by Calvin Larsen, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. Photo i.d. courtesy of David Johnston (USN). | |
 | 291k | "Sign of the times." March 1994 photo of Nuclear submarines at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard waiting in line for scrapping. Top row left to right are Ethan Allen (SSBN-608), Seawolf (SSN-575), Plunger (SSN-595), Shark (SSN-591), Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636), Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685) alongside Sperry (AS-12), with Triton (SSRN-586) across the pier from the Sperry. Bottom row, from left to right Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), Skipjack (SS-585), Snook (SSN-592), Henry Clay (SSBN-625), Lapon (SSN-661), Dace (SSN-607), Skate (SSN-578), Swordfish (SSN-579), Sargo (SSN-583) , Seadragon (SSN-584). Across the pier are Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), and not in view, Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), George Washington (SSBN-598),Barb (SSN-596) & Sea Devil (SSN-664). There are so many submarines at PSNSY that the yard is running out of pier space. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle. | |
 | 12k | Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), at top, George Bancroft (SSBN-643) in the middle and Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685) at the bottom, awaiting scrapping at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA. 2000. | Courtesy of US Navy. | |
 | 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-658) , 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. | |
 | 413k | This Steinway piano spent 22 years (1961-1983) aboard the ballistic missile submarine Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), the only full size piano ever installed aboard a submarine conducting nuclear deterrent patrols. Part of the artifact collection of the Naval Historical Center on the Washington Navy Yard, its being temporarily loaned back today, 11 Jun. 2003 to Steinway in return for a complete restoration. It is then scheduled to go on display this summer at the Steinway Company Museum in New York in an exhibit celebrating the 150 years of the famous piano company. | Photo # O-0000X-001 courtesy of Steinway Piano Company /US Navy. | |
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