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 | 45k | A South American soldier, statesman, and revolutionary leader, Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1783. He fought under Francisco Miranda in a revolt against the Spanish in 1810 but was forced to flee. He planned and led another revolution in Venezuela (1815 to 1818) which was successful. Bolivar raised a small army in New Granada (now Colombia) and defeated the Spanish at Boyaca in 1819 and was subsequently made president of the new republic of Colombia with almost supreme power. In 1821, Bolivar marched south to Quito, Ecuador. In August 1824, his army defeated the Spanish in the battle of Junin which, with General Antonio Sucre's victory at Ayacucho in December, freed Peru from Spain. Bolivar organized a new republic, named Bolivia, in 1825. Simon Bolivar died on 17 December 1830 on his estate near Santa Marta, Colombia. | Photo: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540, courtesy of Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 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 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 (SSBN-641), as yet unnamed. | Photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 166k | Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) was sponsored by Mrs. Thomas C. Mann. Among other things, Mann was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Middle American Affairs from 1949-1953, during which time he worked closely with the new Eisenhower Administration on Latin America policy, & served under five U.S. presidents (Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson). | Photo & text courtesy of flickr.com | |
 | 522k | Sponsor Mrs. Thomas C. Mann, christening the Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) on 22 August 1964. | Photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 297k | Launching program of the Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) on 22 August 1964. | Photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 410k | Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) as she began her slide down the ways into the James River. | Photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 122k | Commemorative post mark on the occasion of the Simon Bolivar's (SSBN-641) launching at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA, 22 August 1964. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 145k | Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) on trials 10 days before her commissioning, 19 October 1965. | USN photo NPC 1113295 courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
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562k | Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) underway sometime around the time of her commissioning, 29 October 1965. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 222k | Inside the Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641). | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 122k | Commemorative post mark on the occasion of the Simon Bolivar's (SSBN-641) commissioning, 29 October 1965. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 98k | Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) underway sometime around the time of her commissioning, 29 October 1965. | USN photo. | |
 | 109k | Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) underway sometime around the time of her commissioning, 29 October 1965. | USN photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr. | |
 | 97k | Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) during trials in September 1965. | USN photo courtesy of Robert Hurst. | |
 | 361k | Sub School Graduation, 1967. | Photo courtesy of Walt Evans (641 Blue). | |
 | 266k | Happy crew members of the Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) during an advance in rank ceremony, 16 April 1969. | Photo courtesy of Walt Evans (641 Blue). | |
 | 169k | Hardcastle on the mess hall. | Photo courtesy of Walt Evans (641 Blue). | |
 | 218k | Rick Donohue and Walt Evans in sonar. | Photo courtesy of Walt Evans (641 Blue). | |
 | 449k | Sonar Gang, 8 October 1970. | Photo courtesy of Walt Evans (641 Blue). | |
 | 181k | Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) underway, with dolphins jumping at the bow, port side view. This photo was taken as the ship left homeport in Charleston, SC. in the Cooper River, early to mid 70's. | Photo i.d. courtesy of John Carpenter & Don Cameron. USN photo. |
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766k | Steel beach comes to the Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) somewhere in the Caribbean during the late 70's. | Photo courtesy of John Carpenter. | |
 | 47k | Change of command ceremony aboard the Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641). | USN photo courtesy of Robert Hall. | |
 | 2.00k | Fourteen page PDF Welcome Aboard pamphlet for the Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641), circa 1983. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
 | 68k | Representatives of the navies participating in Operation Unitas XXV pay homage to South America hero Simon Bolivar at the monument erected in his honor, 1 June 1984. | Official USN photo # DN-ST-85-08277, by PH2 Terry Mitchell, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
 | 322k | A starboard bow view of the nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) underway, 1 February 1991. | Official USN photo # DN-ST-91-05230, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
 | 281k | Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) at Port Canaveral, FL., 22 August 1993, celebrating the 29th anniversary of her launching. | Official USN photo # DN-SC-93-06089, by OS2 John Bouvia, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
 | 98k | A bow view of the nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) at Port Canaveral, FL., 22 August 1993. | Official USN photo # DN-SC-93-06090, by OS2 John Bouvia, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. Photo courtesy of Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 67k | Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) starboard side view in Gibraltar 5th March 1994. | Courtesy of Daniel Ferro. | |
 | 3.32k | Sixteen page PDF Decommissioning pamphlet for the Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) on 24 February 1995. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
 | 103k | Decommissioning cachet of the Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) on 24 February 1995. | Photo courtesy of Tommy Trampp. | |
 | 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 scrapping 8 November 1994. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 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). As time passes & more boats are retired from service and their reactors are brought here, so the numbers rise. In this photo dated November 2009, 98 nuclear submarines and six nuclear cruisers have been recycled. For an up to date view, click here | USN photo submitted by Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). Insert link courtesy of wikimedia.org |
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1.12k | Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) Reunion on 24-26 April 2018. | Photos courtesy of John Carpenter. | |
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