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 | 109k | John Adams. Copy of painting by or after John Singleton Copley, ca. 1783. (George Washington Bicentennial Commission) | NARA FILE #: 148-CD-4-18. Official U.S. Navy Photograph # HD-SN-99-01727, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
 | 259k | READY TO GO - The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard's second nuclear powered Polaris missle submarine, the John Adams (SSBN-620) is shown here yesterday poised on her building ways and ready for her launching at 1:15. Although this is the first time a Polaris submarine has gone down the ways bow first, todays ceremony marks the third time this has taken place here, the others were of the Thresher class. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 437k | Front & back cover of the John Adams (SSBN-620) launching Program at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME, 12 January 1963. | Photo from the collection of Edmund Cokely, CWO 2, USN Retired. | |
 | 391k | Stern view of the John Adams (SSBN-620) going down the ways at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on 12 January 1963. | U.S. Navy photo courtesy of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum via Darryl L. Baker. Photo added 04/18/13. |
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 | 298k | The John Adams (SSBN-620) starts to slides bow first into the water during her launching at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME, 12 January 1963. | Photo from the collection of Edmund Cokely, CWO 2, USN Retired. | |
| 331k | The John Adams (SSBN-620) enters the water on the launching ways at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME, 12 January 1963. | Photo from the collection of Edmund Cokely, CWO 2, USN Retired. | |
 | 268k | The John Adams (SSBN-620) is more than half way down the launching ways at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME, 12 January 1963. | Photo from the collection of Edmund Cokely, CWO 2, USN Retired. | |
 | 268k | With crew and dignitaries on board, the John Adams (SSBN-620) is waterborne and underway following her launching, 12 January 1963. | Photo from the collection of Edmund Cokely, CWO 2, USN Retired. | |
 | 193k | Cdr Lando C. Zeck Jr., 1st Blue CO of the John Adams (SSBN-620). | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 195k | Cdr Paul John Early, lst Gold CO of the John Adams (SSBN-620). | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 431k | One of a kind times three: John Adams (SSBN-620) commissioned, Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636) launched; & Grayling's (SSN-646) keel laid on 12 May 1964. | Photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 148k | John Adams (SSBN-620) sails the seas on 10/10/1964. | USN photo # NPC 1114103, courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 317k | The John Adams (SSBN-620) underway during her shakedown period off the New England coast, April 1964. | Photo from the collection of Edmund Cokely, CWO 2, USN Retired. | |
 | 258k | The colorful trials of John Adams (SSBN-620). | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 121k | The John Adams (SSBN-620) against the backdrop of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME, April 1964. | Official US Navy photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr. | |
 | 258k | John Adams (SSBN-620) is a commissioned warship in the U.S. Navy on 12 May 1964. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 327k | Cover of the John Adams (SSBN-620) Commissioning Program at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME, 12 May 1964. | Photo from the collection of Edmund Cokely, CWO 2, USN Retired. | |
 | 115k | John Adams (SSBN-620), entering Pearl Harbor on 12 January 1970 during a dependents cruise. Across the stern is Diamond Head and across the bow is Honolulu. | Text courtesy of Don Sparks, YNC(SS)-Ret. USS JOHN ADAMS (B & G) May 1966 - July 1970. Photo courtesy of John Hummel. | |
 | 27k | Commemorative post card marking the death of John Adams exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson also died the same day. Post mark dated on the bicentennial, 4 July 1976. | Photo courtesy of Jack Treutle. | |
 | 321k | A tender night for the John Adams (SSBN-620). | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 124k | John Adams (SSBN-620) is welcomed home in 1973. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 231k | John Adams (SSBN-620) during her 1973-4 overhaul. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 464k | John Adams (SSBN-620) during her 1973-4 overhaul. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 415k | John Adams (SSBN-620) during her 1973-4 overhaul. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 249k | John Adams (SSBN-620) during Demonstration And Shakedown Operation trial on 25 May 1976. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 127k | Missle compartment aboard the John Adams (SSBN-620). | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 258k | John Adams (SSBN-620) creates a splash in style during the launch of a Poseidon missle on 25 May 1976. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 59k | John Adams (SSBN-620) in Ft. Lauderdale FL., 1981. | Courtesy of The unofficial* USS John Adams (SSBN 620) Homepage. | |
 | 39k | "The John Adams (SSBN-620) and the Sailing Ship Baltimore." This picture was on the front page of the Charleston, South Carolina paper the "News and Courier" in 1982. | Text and photo courtesy of The unofficial* USS John Adams (SSBN 620) Homepage. | |
 | 134k | John Adams (SSBN-620) last Pacific patrol. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 115k | Commemorative post card marking the decommissioning of the John Adams (SSBN-620), 24 March 1989. | Courtesy of Richard Leonhardt. | |
 | 611k | An aerial view of four Lafayette class (SSBN-616) nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines in the early stages of being scrapped out in a graving dock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington, 17 May 1993. The Lafayette (SSBN-616) & Ulysses S. Grant (SSBN-631) are most likely the two on the port side. They were the first two boats of this class to be decommissioned. The next two boats to be decommissioned were the John Adams (SSBN-620) & Tecumseh (SSBN-628), and they might be the two on the starboard side. | USN photo # DN-ST-95-01860 by Calvin Larsen, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
 | 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. | |
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