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When the band had finished and the speeches were over, square-jawed Commander James Osborn, 41, stepped forward on the deck, read the commissioning orders and said: "I am ready to hoist the colors." Up went the Stars and Stripes and the commissioning pennant on the first U.S. submarine of...
With this brief ceremony at Electric Boat's Wet Dock D in Groton, Conn., the U.S. last week took a giant step toward a new era of warfare and a revolutionary concept in the Navy's defense role. Hopefully by year's end, George Washington will be...
A Ship's Inertial Navigation System (SINS) will provide the attack center with instantaneous pinpoint positioning, and the tapes can be quickly fed into computers to program missile shots to preset targets. Even while submerged, George Washington can receive messages, and if war should come, she would be able...
In all, the Polaris program is producing missile subs at the rate of one every four months; a total of $2.7 billion has been appropriated for it. The Navy has successfully fired dummy missiles from below the surface, and the development versions of Polaris missile have made good scores in...
*Which, with three other Polaris subs already launched but not yet commissioned (Robert E. Lee, Patrick Henry, Theodore Roosevelt), begins a new Navy custom of naming submarines for people, not fish.