USS Woodrow Wilson (SSBN-624) in San Francisco
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Woodrow Wilson |
Namesake | Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), 28th President of the United States (1913–1921) |
Ordered | 9 February 1961 |
Awarded | 9 February 1961 |
Builder | Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California |
Laid down | 13 September 1961 |
Launched | 22 February 1963 |
Sponsored by | Miss Eleanor Axson Sayre, Wilson's Granddaughter |
Commissioned | 27 December 1963 |
Decommissioned | 1 September 1994 |
Reclassified | Attack submarine (SSN-624) in 1990 |
Stricken | 1 September 1994 |
Fate | Recycled via Ship-Submarine Recycling Program 26 September 1997 through 27 October 1998 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Lafayette-class submarine |
Type | Ballistic missile submarine (hull design SCB-216)[1] |
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Length | 425 ft (130 m) |
Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
Draft | 31 ft 6 in (9.60 m) |
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Complement | Two crews (Blue Crew and Gold), 13 officers and 130 enlisted each |
Sensors and processing systems | BQS-4 sonar[1] |
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USS Woodrow Wilson (SSBN-624), a Lafayette class ballistic missile submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921). She later was converted into an attack submarine and redesignated SSN-624.