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Keel Laying
Construction & Launching
Sea Trials - Commissioning
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 | 73k | An official Hawaiian welcome (this is supposed to be a family site) awaits the nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-658) as she arrives dockside in this probably circa 1970's photo. | USN photo courtesy of pelicanharborsubvets.com. Photo added 10/02/07. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 32k | A C-4 Posideon missile clears the water during demonstration and shakedown launch from the nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-658) in mid - 1976. | US Navy photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 460k | A UGM-96 Trident missile clears the water during the 20th demonstration and shakedown launch from the nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-658), 9 Oct 1984. This is the 45th flight of the Trident missile.
| USN photo # DF-SC-85-12090 by JOSN Oscar Sosa, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
 836k | The fleet ballistic missile submarine Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-658) is brought into Kings Bay after completing the Navy's 2,500th deterrent patrol on 1 Oct 1987.
| USN photo # DN-ST-88-00240 by JO2 Jodelle Blankenship, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
|  334k | Crew members stand at parade rest aboard the nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-658) while participating in a ceremony commemorating the completion of the 2,500th deterrent patrol by fleet ballistic missile submarines of the US Navy. The 2,500th patrol was completed by the Mariano G. Vallejo. The fleet ballistic missile submarine Canopus (AS-34) is in the background. | Official U.S. Navy photo # DN-SN-87-05951 by PH3 Joan Zop, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. |
 510k | The nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-658) is assisted into a dock by the large harbor tugs Okmulgee (YTB-765) and Tomahawk (YTB-789) at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia, 4 Apr 1987.
The Mariano G. Vallejo has just completed the 2,500th deterrent patrol by a fleet ballistic missile submarine of the United States Navy. Another submarine is moored alongside the fleet ballistic missile submarine tender Canopus (AS-34) is in the background.
| USN photo # DN-SN-87-05959 by PH3 Vise, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
|  131k | Side boys salute as Vice Admiral (VADM) Bruce Demars, deputy chief of naval operations, Submarine Warfare, boards the nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine Mariano G. Vallejo to attend a ceremony commemorating the completion of the 2,500th deterrent patrol by fleet ballistic missile submarines of the US Navy.
| U.S. Navy photo # DN-SN-87-05955, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. & submitted by Bill Gonyo.
|  460k | A port bow view of the nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine Mariano G. Vallejo (SSN-658) in San Francisco Bay, underway on 1 Feb 1991.
| USN photo # DN-ST-91-05233 by PH1 Wilson, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
|  131k | The Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-658), is seen departing Mare Island on 13 Sep 94 after her final port call of her career. She visited Mare Island from 4 Sep to 13 Sep 94. She is departing for inactivation at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. | USN photo # 268183, courtesy of Daryl Baker. |
 88k | The sail of the Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-658) returns to Mare Island on
19 October 1995 aboard YSD-256 . The sail will go on display at the musesum on
the shipyard.
| U.S. Navy photo # 276955-10-95, courtesy of Darryl Baker. |
 26k | Commemorative post mark issued on the occasion of Stonewall Jackson (SSBN-634), Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-658) , Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641), and Hammerhead (SSN-663), at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, entering Dry Dock No. 4 for scraping 8 November 1994. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle. |
 87k | Commemorative postal cover marking the 100 anniversary of the submarine service on Aprill 11, 2000, picturing the
Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-658) and listing all the Mare Island Navy Yard, CA. built nuclear ballistic submarines. |
Courtesy of The Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum and submitted by Darryl Baker. |
 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. |
 86k | Mariano G. Vallejo (SSN-658) sail on the dock at Mare Island, California, 15 March 2004. | Courtesy of Jim R. & Cora Huffman. |
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