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NavSource Online: Submarine Photo Archive

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Alexander Hamilton (SSBN 617)

Lafayette Class Ballistic Missile Submarine: Laid down, 26 June 1961, at the Electric Boat Div., of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT.; Launched, 18 August 1962; Commissioned, USS Alexander Hamilton (SSBN 617), 27 June 1963; Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 23 February 1993; Disposed of through Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program, 28 February 1994 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 7,250 t., Submerged: 8,250 t.; Length 425'; Beam 33'; Draft 32'; Speed, Surfaced/Submerged 20+ kts; Complement 138; Test depth 1,300'; Armament, 16 Polaris missile tubes, four 21" torpedo tubes; Propulsion, S5W Pressurized Water Nuclear Reactor, two geared turbines at 15,000 shp, one propeller.

Size	Image Description	Source
123k	Provincial Company, New York Artillery. Captain Alexander Hamilton 1776. Watercolor by D.W.C. Falls, 1923. (U.S. Regular Army Mobile Units)	NARA FILE #: 391-AR-2-1. USN photo # HD-SN-99-01684, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
108k	Commemorative postal cover issued on the occasion of the first day in commission of the Alexander Hamilton (SSBN-617), 27 June 1963.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
98k	Portside view of the Alexander Hamilton (SSBN-617), taken 19 March 1964.	US Navy photo contributed by Jim Kimpel.
105k	Commemorative postal cover issued on the occasion of the first Polaris firing of the Alexander Hamilton's (SSBN-617) Blue crew, 12 May 1964.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
88k	Swim call on the Alexander Hamilton's (SSBN-617) steel beach, 50 miles off the coast of Jacksonville, FL., April 1982.	US Navy photo contributed by Jim Kimpel.
78k	Alexander Hamilton (SSBN-617) tied up alongside the tender Hunley (AS-31). Pic taken from the "Donut" which was where waste oil was pumped, circa 1984.	US Navy photo contributed by Jim Kimpel.
119k	The Blue weapons department of the Alexander Hamilton (SSBN-617) at sunset waiting on the docks after being dropped off by a tug. We had transferred by tug to the boat during our off-crew time to perform MK-48 proficiency testing. I believe it was Andros Island, circa 1983-84.	US Navy photo contributed by Jim Kimpel.
107k	Stern view of the Alexander Hamilton (SSBN-617) taken from the tug facing aft after we transferred off the boat after testing, circa 1983-84.	US Navy photo contributed by Jim Kimpel.
317k	Sonar supervisor Jim Kimpel doing pre-underway checks of the sonar equipment aboard the Alexander Hamilton (SSBN-617), circa 1983-84.	US Navy photo contributed by Jim Kimpel.
615k	A starboard view of the nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine Alexander Hamilton (SSBN-617) underway on 1 Feb 1991.	USN photo # DN-ST-91-05222, by LCDR C. Larsen, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil & submitted by Bill Gonyo.
81k	Sailors take in the view from the sail of the nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine Alexander Hamilton (SSBN-617) in this undated photo.	USN photo courtesy of pelicanharborsubvets.com. Photo added 10/02/07.
36k	Alexander Hamilton (SSBN-617), underway, date and place unknown.	US Navy photo contributed by Jim Kimpel.
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-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.