USS Tecumseh (SSBN-628)
USS Tecumseh (SSBN-628) underway east of Charleston, South Carolina, on 1 January 1986.
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| Name: | USS Tecumseh |
| Namesake: | Tecumseh (1768-1813), a Native American leader of the Shawnee |
| Ordered: | 20 July 1961 |
| Builder: | Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut |
| Laid down: | 1 June 1962 |
| Launched: | 22 June 1963 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Robert L. F. Sikes |
| Commissioned: | 29 May 1964 |
| Decommissioned: | 23 July 1993 |
| Struck: | 23 July 1993 |
| Motto: | United for Freedom |
| Fate: | Scrapped via Ship-Submarine Recycling Program completed 1 April 1994 |
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| Class and type: | James Madison-class submarine |
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| Length: | 425 ft (130 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draft: | 31 ft 4 in (9.55 m) |
| Installed power: | S5W reactor |
| Propulsion: | 2 × geared steam turbines, 15,000 shp (11,185 kW), 1 shaft |
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| Test depth: | 1,300 ft (400 m) |
| Complement: | Two crews (Gold and Blue) of 140 each |
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USS Tecumseh (SSBN-628), a James Madison-class ballistic missile submarine, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Tecumseh (c.1768–1813), the leader of the Shawnee people.
The contract to build Tecumseh was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut, on 20 July 1961. Originally, she was to have been named William Penn, and would have been the first Navy ship to bear that name, but was renamed on 11 April 1962.
Tecumseh's keel was laid down on 1 June 1962. She was launched on 22 June 1963 sponsored by Mrs. Robert L. F. Sikes, and commissioned on 29 May 1964, with Commander Arnett B. Taylor in command of the Blue Crew and Commander Charles S. Carlisle in command of the Gold Crew.
Based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Tecumseh deployed to the Mariana Islands on 17 December 1964, arriving at Guam on 29 December 1964 to commence deterrent patrols.
Tecumseh had conducted 21 strategic deterrent patrols in the Pacific by 1969, when she transferred to the United States Atlantic Fleet. She proceeded via Pearl Harbor and the Panama Canal to the United States East Coast and arrived at Newport News, Virginia, on 8 November 1969. Soon thereafter, she entered Newport News shipyard for a conversion which replaced her Polaris ballistic missile system with the new Poseidon ballistic missile system. Emerging from drydock on 9 May 1970, Tecumseh underwent a thorough through that fall and winter before being assigned a new home port of Charleston, South Carolina, on 18 February 1971.
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