USS Kamehameha
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USS Kamehameha (SSBN-642) was a Benjamin Franklin-class ballistic missile submarine and the only ship in the United States Navy to be named after Kamehameha I, the first King of Hawaii (c. 1758–1819). She is one of only two United States ships named after a monarch.a She was later reclassified as an attack submarine and re-designated SSN-642.
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USS Kamehameha (SSN-642) after her 1992 conversion to support Navy SEALS as an attack submarine | |
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United States | |
Namesake | Kamehameha I (c. 1758–1819), King of Hawaii (c. 1795–1819) |
Ordered | 31 August 1962 |
Builder | Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California |
Laid down | 2 May 1963 |
Launched | 16 January 1965 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Samuel Wilder King |
Commissioned | 10 December 1965 |
Decommissioned | 2 April 2002 |
Reclassified | Attack submarine (SSN-642) in 1992 |
Stricken | 2 April 2002 |
Motto | Imua (Hawaiian for 'Go forth and conquer') |
Nickname(s) | "Dead Giveaway" |
Fate | Scrapping via Ship and Submarine Recycling Program begun October 2002; completed 28 February 2003 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Benjamin Franklin-class submarine |
Displacement | 6,511 tons light, 7,334 tons full, 823 tons dead[clarification needed] |
Length | 425 ft (130 m) |
Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
Draft | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
Installed power | 15,000 shp (11,185 kW) |
Propulsion | One S5W pressurized-water nuclear reactor, two geared steam turbines, one shaft |
Speed | Over 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Test depth | 1,300 feet (400 m) |
Complement | Two crews (Blue Crew and Gold Crew) of 20 officers and 130 enlisted men each |
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The ship's motto was Imua, which roughly translates from Hawaiian as "go forth and conquer." Another motto used by her crew was Kam do, a play on the phrase "can do."[1]