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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. Photo added 05/07/08. |
 | 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. |