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 | 94k | Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson authenticates the keel of the Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) as Navy Secretary Fred Korth (right) looks on. | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 193k | The keel of the Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) is swung into place on Shipway 6 in the place vacated by the launching of the Henry Clay (SSBN-625) 3 days earlier. | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 403k | Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson speaking at the keel laying ceremony for the Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. Photo added 09/25/18. | |
 | 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 (of blessed memory). | |
 | 585k | THREE OF A KIND-And an ace hidden in the hole. A trio of Polaris submarines poke their noses over the edge of their building ways while another while another lies hidden at extreme right. Photo was made just before James Madison (SSBN-627) (center) was launched yesterday, 15 March 1963. At left is the Von Steuben (SSBN-632) and at right is the John C. Calhoun (SSBN-630). At far right and not sporting a nose as yet is the Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635). The four-in-a-row Polaris lineup can be duplicated in only one other yard-Electric Boat-where the Daniel Webster (SSBN-626), Tecumseh (SSBN-628), Ulysses S. Grant (SSBN-631) & Casimir Pulaski (SSBN-633) have been laid down. The building slot vacated yesterday in Newport News by the James Madison soon will hold (SSNB-641), as yet unnamed. | Photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 82k | Uncle Sam wants you: Invitation for the commissioning of the Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) on 2 December 1964. | Photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 649k | Steel Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) co-sponsors, Mrs. S. E. Bartley and Mrs. W. A. Thomas, sisters of Speaker Sam Rayburn on 2 December 1964. | Photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 164k | Christening of the Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635). Mrs. Bartley, right, breaks a bottle of champagne. Her sister, Mrs. Thomas, followed a moment later. | Photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 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. | USN photo courtesy of pelicanharborsubvets.com & submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 456k | Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) sliding into the James River with a holiday greeting for the spectators. | Photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 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 (of blessed memory). | |
 | 323k | Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) during her trials on 12 November 1964. | USN photo # NPC KN-12851, courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 124k | Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) makes her way off the Atlantic coast, probably during her Alpha sea trials. | Official USN photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr. | |
 | 75k | Commissioning Invitation for the Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) on 2 December 1964. | Photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 2.58k | Fourteen page PDF Commissioning pamphlet for the Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635). | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
 | 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. | |
 | 73k | Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) with Polaris missile tubes open for inspection, July 1969. | Courtesy of Nova/PBS. | |
 | 161k | See Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) circle at sea in 1970. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 666k | Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) at sea April 1970. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 553k | Some T.L.C. from a tug as the Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) comes home. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 300k | No one following! | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 66k | Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) with her eight starboard Polaris missile tubes open with the usual request for the Army-Navy football game where Army gets nuked. | USN photo. | |
 | 834k | A starboard bow view of the nuclear-powered strategic missile 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. | |
 | 67k | Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) as a towed trainer. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 513k | Sam Rayburn (MST-635) and Daniel Webster (MST-326) tied at NPTU Goose Creek, SC., 16 April 2002. | Photo courtesy of xpda.com/Goose Creek via Robert Hurst. | |
| 28k | The Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) at NPTU Goose Creek, 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 / James K. Polk Veteran's Association. | |
 | 21k | The Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) at NPTU Goose Creek, South Carolina, December 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 / James K. Polk Veteran's Association. | |
 | 930k | Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) gets a loving tug from the Christoper B. Turecavo on 16 September 2010 in North Charleston, South Carolina. | Photo courtesy of Zane Johnston from flickr.com via Steven Gower. | |
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