USS Patrick Henry (SSBN-599)
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USS Patrick Henry (SSBN-599)
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| Name: | USS Patrick Henry |
| Namesake: | Patrick Henry (1736–1799) |
| Ordered: | 31 December 1957 |
| Builder: | General Dynamics Electric Boat |
| Laid down: | 27 May 1958 |
| Launched: | 22 September 1959 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Leslie F. Ahrends |
| Commissioned: | 11 April 1960 |
| Decommissioned: | 25 May 1984 |
| Struck: | 16 December 1985 |
| Fate: | Recycling via Ship-Submarine Recycling Program completed 21 August 1997 |
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| Class and type: | George Washington-class submarine |
| Type: | SSBN |
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| Length: | 381.6 ft (116.3 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draft: | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
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| Range: | unlimited except by food supplies |
| Test depth: | 700 ft (210 m) |
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USS Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), named after the American Revolutionary War figure Patrick Henry (1736–1799), was a George Washington class nuclear-powered fleet ballistic missile submarine of the United States Navy. She was later converted into an attack submarine and redesignated SSN-599.
Patrick Henry's keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation, in Groton, Connecticut, on 26 May 1958. She was launched on 22 September 1959, sponsored by Mrs. Leslie E. Arends and was commissioned on 9 April 1960, with Commander Harold E. Shear in command of the Blue crew and Commander Robert L. J. Long commanding the Gold crew.
Manned alternately by two crews, Blue and Gold, like all US Navy ballistic missile submarines, to maximize her submerged operations, Patrick Henry underwent shakedown with the Blue crew until 16 September 1960, when the Gold crew took over. The second fleet ballistic missile (FBM) submarine, she commenced her first deterrent patrol in December 1960 with her Blue Crew on board. When she surfaced off Holy Loch, Scotland, on 8 March 1961, she had set a record for her type, cruising submerged 66 days and 22 hours. Patrick Henry was the first ballistic missile submarine to enter Holy Loch, and the first to go alongside the submarine tender USS Proteus for replenishment and routine repair.
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