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| Click On Image For Full Size Image | Size | Image Description | Source | |
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 | 24k | Commemorative postal cover issued on the occasion of the keel laying of the Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635), 3 December 1962, at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle. | |
 | 92k | The officers & crew of the Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) salute the national ensign as she starts making her way down the launching ramp 20 December 1963, at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA. | U.S. Navy Photograph courtesy of pelicanharborsubvets.com & submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 94k | Commemorative postal cover issued on the occasion of the launching of the Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635), 20 December 1963, at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle. | |
 | 124k | Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) makes her way off the Atlantic coast, probably during her Alpha sea trilas. | Official US Navy photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr. | |
 | 103k | Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) prepares to moor alongside a submarine tender at Holy Loch, Scotland. | USN photo from The American Submarine, by Norman Polmar, submitted by Robert Hurst. | |
 | 108k | Admiral Carlisle Albert Herman Trost graduated first in his U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1953 and was commissioned as an Ensign. He volunteered and was accepted to begin submarine training in 1954 and once again graduated first in his class from Submarine School in New London, CT. During his more than thirty-seven years of commissioned service, Admiral Trost served at sea in destroyers and diesel-powered and nuclear submarines, including tours as executive officer of two nuclear-powered submarines and as commanding officer of a Lafayette Class Ballistic Missile Submarine Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) July 1968 to September 1969. | Photo # DN-SC-86-01979 courtesy of Department of Defense Imagery submitted by Bill Gonyo. Photo added 08/23/09. | |
 | 66k | Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) with her eight starboard Polaris missle tubes open with the usual request for the Army-Navy football game where Army gets nuked. | USN photo. | |
 | 14k | Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) with Polaris missle tubes open for inspection, date and location unknown. | Courtesy of Nova/PBS. | |
 | 834k | A starboard bow view of the nuclear-powered strategic missle submarine Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) being dismantled prior to decommissioning, circa 31 July 1989.
| Defense Visual Information Center photo # DN-SN-86-00575, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil & submitted by Bill Gonyo. |
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 | 28k | The Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) at NPTU Goosecreek, South Carolina. She is there with the Daniel Webster (SSBN-626) and they are moored for training in the Cooper River, the Sam Rayburn is up river, with the Webster down river and behind. | Photo courtesy of Lew Kennedy / USS James K. Polk Veteran's Association. | |
 | 21k | The Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) at
NPTU Goosecreek, South Carolina, Dec. 2005. She is there with the Daniel Webster (SSBN-626) and they are moored for training in the Cooper River, the Sam Rayburn is up river, with the Webster down river and behind. | Photo courtesy of Lew Kennedy / USS James K. Polk Veteran's Association. | |
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