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| | USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. |
 | | Robert H. Hopkins, great-great-great-granddaughter of Ethan Allen, and commissioned on 8 August 1961 with Commander Paul L. Lacy, Jr, commanding Blue Crew and Commander W. Behrens, Jr., commanding the Gold Crew. |
 | | On 6 May 1962, Ethan Allen, under the command of Captain Paul Lacy and with Admiral Levering Smith aboard, launched a nuclear-armed Polaris missile that detonated at 11,000 feet over the South Pacific. |
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