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	USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608)
		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.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/u/us/uss_ethan_allen__ssbn_608_.html (266 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ethan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ethan Allen Brown, a politician that served as the seventh governor of Ohio
		Ethan Zuckerman is a co-founder of Tripod and the founder of Geekcorps.
		Ethan Allen (January 21, 1738 – February 12, 1789) was an early American revolutionary and guerrilla leader during the era of the Vermont Republic and the New Hampshire Grants.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ethan (1124 words)

	USS Ethan Allen (SSBN 608)
		USS ETHAN ALLEN was the first ship of the Navy's second generation of nuclear powered fleet ballistic missile submarines and the second ship in the Navy to bear the name.
		After 19 years of service, the ETHAN ALLEN was redesignated as SSN 608, but only served for 3 years in her new role.
		Ethan Allen, born 10 January 1737 or 1738 in Litchfield, Conn., is known chiefly for his leading role in securing the recognition of Vermont as a separate State.
	www.navysite.de /ssbn/ssbn608.htm (400 words)

	SSBN-608 Ethan Allen-Class Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarines - SSBN - United States Nuclear Forces
		The USS Ethan Allen, (SSBN-608) operating in the Pacific as a unit of Joint Task Force 8 Operation Frigate-Bird," fired the only nuclear-armed POLARIS missile ever launched on 6 May 1962.
		A POLARIS A1 missile was launched from the USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608) while submerged in the Pacific, and its nuclear warhead was detonated over the South Pacific at the end of its programmed flight.
		The shot was made during the 1962 atomic tests and hit "right in the pickle barrel." The captain of the 608 was Paul Lacy, and ADM Levering Smith was aboard.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/usa/slbm/ssbn-608.htm (191 words)

	USS Ethan Allen (SSBN 608)
		USS ETHAN ALLEN was the first ship of the Navy's second generation of nuclear powered fleet ballistic missile submarines and the second ship in the Navy to bear the name.
		The Polaris A1 missile was launched while the ETHAN ALLEN submerged in the Pacific, and the missile's nuclear warhead was detonated over the South Pacific at the end of its programmed flight.
		After 19 years of service, the ETHAN ALLEN was redesignated as SSN 608, but only served for 3 years in her new role.
	navysite.de /ssbn/ssbn608.htm (400 words)

	Submarine Photo Index
		Ethan Allen (SSBN-608), underway during her trials, circa late 1960.
		Ethan Allen (SSBN-608) undergoing sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean during late 1960.
		Ethan Allen's (SSBN-608) captain on the radio-phone giving his orders to the missle control center during a launch exercise.
	www.navsource.org /archives/08/08608.htm (757 words)

	FBM History Jan 61 to Jun 62
		As a result, construction of SSBNs 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19 (initially planned for FY 62 budget) were authorized in fiscal year 1961.
		USS PATRICK HENRY returned from patrol and came alongside the PROTEUS in Holy Loch, Scotland, to become first SSBN to use Holy Loch as a refit and upkeep anchorage.
		USS ETHAN ALLEN, operating in the Pacific as a unit of Joint Task Force 8, successfully fired a POLARIS A-1 missile with a nuclear warhead.
	www.us-submarine.com /5.html (635 words)

	Submarine Centennial Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: )
		USS George Washington (SSBN-598), after long deployment on many submerged patrols, completes her initial overhaul and is refit to carry the 2,500-mile range Polaris A-3 missile.
		USS Scorpion (SSN-589) is reported overdue and presumed lost during her transit from the Mediterranean to Norfolk.
		USS Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) and USS Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602) are decommissioned.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/cno/n87/history/chrono.html (3046 words)

	USS Ethan Allen (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The USS Ethan Allen, (SSBN-608) operating in the Pacific as a unit of Joint Task Force 8 Operation Frigate-Bird," fired the only nuclear-armed Polaris missile ever launched on 6 May 1962.
		A Polaris A1 missile was launched from the USS Ethan Allen while submerged in the Pacific, and its nuclear warhead was detonated over the South Pacific at the end of its programmed flight.
		The USS John Marshall (SSBN-611) became the last submarine to give up her Polaris A2's for Polaris A3 capability when she went into overhaul on 1 November 1974.
	web.bryant.edu /~ehu/h364proj/summ_99/trainor/ethanallen.html (168 words)

	Nuclear Submarines
		The USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), which was the last of the Ethan Allen-class was decommissioned in January of 1985 (Subnet).
		The USS Lafayette (SSBN-616) was decommissioned on August 12, 1991,and the USS Benjamin Franklin (SSBN-640) was on October 1, 1994.
		The USS Los Angeles (SSN-688) and all of the Los Angeles-class submarines have an enormous length of 360 feet, and a width of thirty-three feet.
	www.studyworld.com /basementpapers/sec_papers/Nuclear_Submarines.html (4274 words)

	Uss Ethan Allen
		USS ETHAN ALLEN (SSBN 608), the second ship of the fleet to bear the name of the Revolutionary War hero and leader...
		USS Ethan Allen (SSBN 608) - later SSN 608 - - decommissioned - USS ETHAN ALLEN was the first ship of the Navy's second generation of nuclear powered fleet ballistic missile submarines and the second ship in the Navy to bear the name.
		The Allen was the last boat I served on as I left the Navy in the fall of 1972.
	www.louis14th.com /88/uss-ethan-allen.html (568 words)

	Facts and Trivia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On 19 June she caught the carrier Shokaku landing planes and quickly fired a spread of six torpedoes for three hits, enough to send Shokaku to the bottom in 11°50′N 137°57′E. After a severe depth charging by three destroyers, where over 100 depth charges were dropped, Cavalla escaped to continue her patrol.
		USS Bowfin traveled from Pearl Harbor to the Central Nansei Shoto area, then to Midway, then on to Pearl Harbor.
		A POLARIS A1 missile was launched from the USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608) while submerged in the Pacific, and its nuclear warhead was detonated over the South Pacific at the end of its programmed flight.
	www.cavallabase.org /Trivia.htm (727 words)

	Submarine Store Directory of Submarine Links
		For the crews of the USS Patrick Henry SSB(N) 599.
		USS TENNESSEE development was based on extensive considerations of all aspects of survivability and capabilities required in a seabased deterrent platformd designed for operations through the next century.
		USS Tecumseh (SSBN628) site is filled with many pictures of the boat and crew with history of the boat all the way until decom.
	www.submarinestore.com /cgi-bin/ilink.cgi?Category=Specific_Submarines\|Boomers_-_SSBN (402 words)

	USS Birmingham Captains List:
		While in command of USS BIRMINGHAM (SSN 695), RADM Sullivan was nominated as a Pacific Fleet finalist for the Admiral Stockdale Leadership Award.
		During his tour, USS ETHAN ALLEN (SSBN 608)(GOLD) completed three strategic deterrent patrols and underwent conversion to be an attack submarine.
		USS BIRMINGHAM was decommissioned on 22 December 1997 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard
	www.htc.net /~kutterer/captain.htm (2906 words)

	[No title]
		Lucian served on the USS ARCHERFISH AGSS-311, HARDHEAD SS-365, BANG SS-385, TIRANTE SS-420, TORO SS-422, SARDA SS-488 and SALMON SSR-573.
		Ray was a WWII veteran, putting the USS PIPER SS-409 in commission and made war patrols on her until the end of the war.
		VALLEJO SSBN-658, USS Halibut SSN 587, and USS ETHAN ALLEN (SSBN 608).
	www.ussvi.org /Final/final-01.htm (3492 words)

	Forty-One For Freedom@Everything2.com
		The last active ship, the USS Kamehameha, was converted for use in an attack role, but was placed in stand-down in October of 2001 in preparation for decommissioning.
		The activation of the George Washington and Ethan Allen-class ships coincided with the worst days of the Cold War, just prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962, and before the Atmospheric Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 which helped to reduce the nuclear threat somewhat.
		This writeup was inspired by a day trip to the USS Nautilus museum in Groton, CT, a recommended stop if you're in the area.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=1218476&lastnode_id=0 (1350 words)

	Association
		The 608 Association formally welcomes all submariners to the Home Portal of the USS Ethan Allen (SSBN/SSN608).
		The 608 Association has members from all over the United States and beyond.
		The Association is open to all those who served aboard or participated in operations aboard USS Ethan Allen (SSBN/SSN-608) during her long and illustrious career.
	www.ssbn608.org /association.htm (79 words)

	USS Ethan Allen (Ssbn-608) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		USS Ethan Allen (Ssbn-608), nave del terminal de su clase, era la segunda nave de la marina de Estados Unidos que se nombrará para Ethan Allen.
		Ethan Allen fue desarmado la 31 de marcha de 1983 y pulsado del registro naval del recipiente dos días más adelante.
		Ver USS Ethan Allen para otras naves del mismo nombre.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/us/USS%20Ethan%20Allen%20%28Ssbn608%29.htm (262 words)

	The Other Frigate Bird (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ethan Allen was eventually decommissioned in 1983 after a brief twilight career as an SSN.
		Of the six SSBNs then operational, Ethan Allen – commanded by CAPT Paul Lacy, USN – was the newest, having been commissioned less than a year earlier, and she was designated as the firing ship.
		Downrange, the diesel-electric submarines USS Carbonero (SS-337) and USS Medregal (SS-480) were submerged at periscope depth 25 miles from the burst point and offset 45 degrees on either side of the flight path.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/cno/n87/usw/issue_24/frigate_bird.htm (1840 words)

	A Veteran Submariner's Analysis of the USS San Francisco Undersea Accident By Philip Ledoux (Jan. 23, 2005)
		After more schooling I was assigned to the USS Ethan Allen SSBN 608, a big missile boat at the time, in the building at the yards in Groton, Connecticut.
		I was assigned to the USS Ethan Allen SSBN608 as she was being built and took her through her sea trials.
		The new class like USS San Francisco are purposefully designed with too few sleeping bunks for the crew; the enlisted have to "hot bunk".
	educate-yourself.org /cn/submarineaccidentanalysis23jan05.shtml (3708 words)

	Sinking Carbonero - USS Pogy SSN 647 Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I was Commanding Officer of USS POGY (SSN-647), a STURGEON class SSN homeported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, from 1973 to 1977.
		USS CARBONERO (SS-337) was a typical World War II type diesel submarine that was later modernized and equipped with a streamlined superstructure and a snorkle.
		CARBONERO participated in the 1962 Nuclear Tests in the Central Pacific off Christmas Island and Johnston Island entitled "Operation Dominic." She specifically was on hand for the detonation of a warhead from a Polaris missile fired from the USS ETHAN ALLEN (SSBN-608).
	www.usspogy647.com /cms/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=9&MMN_position=18:18 (1274 words)

	Under way on Nuclear Power (Site not responding. Last check: )
		USS TRITON (SSN 586) was designed to be fast enough to operate with a fast carrier task force.One of the largest submarines ever built, Triton is 447 feet long, displaces more than 7700 tons submerged, and carries a crew of approximately 170.
		USS ETHAN ALLEN (SSBN 608) was the first ballistic missile submarine to be designed from the keel up as an FBM submarine.
		Will Rogers (SSBN 659) last of the 41 currently authorized FBM submarines was launched 21 Jul. 1966, and completed her sea trials in February 1967.
	www.rddesigns.com /saga/nucs.html (3925 words)

	SN Gary Wilkinson recalls a series of nuclear weapons detonation tests while on DD-747 in 1962 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Back in 1962, as a 21 year-old seaman, I was serving on the USS Samuel N. Moore (DD-747), a naval destroyer, assigned to Destroyer Division 232, which was home-ported in Long Beach, CA.
		This consisted of a nuclear warhead fired from the submarine USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608).
		The task group's responsibility was to exercise direct operational control of participating naval units in the vicinity of the launch point, assume SAR responsibility in the launch area, conduct surveillance of the launch hazard area, provide range safety missile tracking facilities, and to provide technical photography of the missile launch.
	diodon349.com /War/USS_Samuel_N._Moore_DD-747/Memories_of_crew/sn_gary_wilkinson_recalls_nuclear_detonation_tests_1962.htm (1343 words)

	USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608)
		Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Corporation 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.W. Behrens, Jr.
		That test (Frigate Bird), part of Operation Dominic I, was the only complete operational test of an American strategic missile.
	encycl.opentopia.com /term/USS_Ethan_Allen_(SSBN-608) (367 words)

	Force Master Chief
		He volunteered for submarine duty and was assigned to USS Flasher (SSN 613) where he qualified in submarines and served as leading yeoman.
		Subsequent assigments include USS Ethan Allen (SSBN 608) (Gold), Naval Station Brig at Long Beach and as chief of the boat for USS Ethan Allen's Blue Crew.
		He served as Chief of the Boat on board USS Indianapolis (SSN 697) until June 1981 and then was assigned as Command Master Chief for COMSUBGRU Nine at Bangor.
	www.csp.navy.mil /pastfmc/fmcjd.html (233 words)

	Ethan Allen (Site not responding. Last check: )
		klasy George Washington Marynarka zamówiła kolejne pięć jednostek tego typu, które otwierał USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608).
		USS Ethan Allen wszedł do służby 8 sierpnia 1961, zaś ostatni z klasy - USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618) - w styczniu 1963 roku.
		Jednostki Ethan Allen były wyposażone w pociski balistyczne Polaris A2 (16 szt.) - dopiero w połowie lat siedemdziesiątych przezbrojono je na Polaris A3.
	www.atominfo.org /przeglad/allen.html (119 words)

	Asia Observer - web directory and search
		USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619) - One of the 41 For Freedom Ballistic Missile Submarines of the Cold War.
		USS Sam Houston (SSBN/SSN-609) - The nation's SEVENTH Polaris submarine and second Ethan Allen class Ballistic sub.
		USS Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) - Converted to dockside trainer and reclassied as Floating Equipment serving as S5W Prototype.
	www.asiaobserver.com /cgi-local/anacondaodpp.pl?passurl=/Regional/North_America/United_States/Government/Military/Navy/Ships/Submarines/Ballistic (402 words)

	U.S. Submarines Chronology: A Century of Silent Service (Site not responding. Last check: )
		USS Georgia (SSBN 729) cruising the Hood Canal at dawn, near the Trident Refit Facility in Bangor, Washington.
		10 Dec—USS Seadragon (SS 194) and USS Sealion (SS 195) in Cavite, Philippines, are attacked by Japanese aircraft.
		—USS Louisville (SSN 724) and USS Pittsburgh (SSN 720) fire the first Tomahawk cruise missiles from a submarine in combat during the Persian Gulf War.
	www.hlla.com /reference/subs.html (2953 words)

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		Donald qualified on the USS DIODON SS-349 and served on the USS CUSK SS-348, USS CHIVO SS-341 and THE USS CAPTAINE SS-336.
		Donald served on the USS TAMBOR SS-198, USS HALFBEAK SS-352, USS GROUPER SSK-214, and USS JAMES MONROE SSBN-622.
		Ernie qualified aboard USS SEA LEOPARD SS-483 and served in USS SEA LION APSS-315, SEA ROBIN SS-407, GUDGEON SS-567, GRAYBACK SS-576 and USS DARTER SS-576.
	www.ussvi.org /Final/final-02.htm (3552 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Ann Story, Ethan Allen & The Green Mountain Boys - July 16th, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Allen demanded surrender from the British commander "in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress." Subsequently, as a member of the army of General Philip John Schuyler, he rendered valuable service in the American military expedition against Canada.
		Some of the Green Mountain Boys preferred to stick with Ethan Allen and were captured along with Allen in August 1775 in a bungled attack on the city of Montreal.
		The missile was launched by the USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608) at 13:18 (local) [6 May 1962 ]from a position 1500 nm east-northeast of Christmas Island.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/946978/posts (9537 words)

	Ethan at AllExperts
		Ethan Allen*, an early American revolutionary and general, a leader during the era of the Vermont Republic and the New Hampsire Grants
		Fort Ethan* Allen (Arlington, Virginia), a fort in Virginia
		USS Ethan* Allen (SSBN-608), the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Ethan Allen
	en.allexperts.com /e/e/et/ethan.htm (317 words)

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