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USS George C. Marshall

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in this way: "... the waves set up by this launching will go to the furthest reaches of our foreign relations. The very existence of this ship, her power, her mission, her orders, her competence to execute them, will affect more computations, more decisions, than we can readily imagine. Far beyond
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1970 and 1971, the Gold and Blue crews repeated the sequence except that the Gold crew returned to Charleston, SC in March 1971. The Blue crew was under the command of Capt Roy C. Paul for patrols #11 and #13 returning to Holy Loch before transit to overhaul via the Panama
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September 1969, the Blue crew went aboard in Holy Loch, Scotland, and departed in October on patrol #7 under the command of Capt Hay. In December the ship returned to Holy Loch and the Gold crew took over.
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This sequence was repeated in March 1970 with the Blue crew returning on board in Holy Loch. It tied up alongside the submarine tender USS Canopus.
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In 1980 "George C. Marshall" went through an extensive overhaul in the floating dry dock USS Los Alamos (AFDB-7) in Holy Loch, Scotland
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Moved to Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, GA for one patrol and test fired ballistic missiles prior to entering shipyard for overhaul
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Warren Richardson Cobean, Jr. in command of the Blue Crew and Commander Willard Edward Johnson in command of the Gold Crew.
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Moved to Naval Weapons Station Charleston, SC to unload weapons prior to entering overhaul at Newport News Shipyard.
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conducted 78 strategic deterrent patrols during her career and was one of the last units to leave
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Leaving Holy Loch, Scotland, "George C. Marshall" made a port call in Weymouth, England for 2 days
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Late in 1970s "George C. Marshall" was caught in a fishing trawler net during a transit from
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Wayback Machine Internet Archive: USS George C. Marshall Veterans' Website
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Refueling and Poseidon Conversion Overhaul September 1971- March 1973
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Conducted midshipman ops out of Naval Submarine Base New London, CT
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April 1973 successfully performed DASO ballistic missile launch
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was decommissioned on 24 September 1992 and stricken from the
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at Newport News Shipbuilding that lasted from 1981 to 1984,
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4 × Mark 65 Mod 3 and Mark 65 Mod 421 in (533 mm)
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underwent modifications that included the removal of her
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Operated out of Rota Naval Station, Rota, Spain mid-1970s
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November 1975 visited Faslane Submarine Base in Scotland
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This article includes information collected from the
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the same day. Her scrapping via the Nuclear-Powered
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Two crews (Blue Crew and Gold Crew) of 120 men each
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USS George C. Marshall (SSBN-654)
Pre-commissioning photo of George C. Marshall (SSBN-654), underway off Newport News, VA, 31 March 1966
commissioning
Newport News
Virginia
General of the Army
George C. Marshall
U.S. Secretary of State
U.S. Secretary of Defense
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Newport News
Virginia
Katherine Tupper Marshall
Ship and Submarine Recycling Program
Benjamin Franklin-class
fleet ballistic missile submarine
long tons
S5W pressurized-water nuclear reactor
steam turbines
ballistic missile
torpedo tubes
Mark 48 torpedoes
SUBROC
Mobile submarine simulator
Benjamin Franklin-class
ballistic missile
submarine
United States Navy
General of the Army
George C. Marshall

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