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Encyclopedia > Ethan Allen class submarine

The Ethan Allen class of fleet ballistic missile submarine was an evolutionary development from the George Washington class. Together with the George Washington, the Lafayette, the James Madison, and the Benjamin Franklin classes, they comprised the "41 for Freedom."


Rather than being designed as Skipjack-class attack submarines with a missile compartment added, the Ethan Allens were designed from scratch as fleet ballistic missile submarines carrying the Polaris A2 missile. In the early and mid-1970s, they were further upgraded to Polaris A3s


Boats

  • USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608)
  • USS Sam Houston (SSBN-609)
  • USS Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610)
  • USS John Marshall (SSBN-611)
  • USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618)
(Note out-of-sequence numbering.)

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USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608) (263 words)
USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608), lead ship of her class, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Ethan Allen.
To make room for the new Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines within the limitations of SALT II, Ethan Allen's missile tubes (and those of other earlier ballistic missile submarines) were disabled and she was redesignated an attack submarine with hull classification symbol SSN-608 on 1 September 1980.
Ethan Allen was decommissioned on 31 March 1983 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Registry two days later.
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