USS Ulysses S. Grant (SSBN-631)
USS Ulysses S. Grant (SSBN-631) entering point at Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Hawaii.
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| Namesake: | Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), American Civil War general and the 18th President of the United States (1869-1877) |
| Ordered: | 20 July 1961 |
| Builder: | Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut |
| Laid down: | 18 August 1962 |
| Launched: | 2 November 1963 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. David W. Griffiths |
| Commissioned: | 17 July 1964 |
| Decommissioned: | 12 June 1992 |
| Struck: | 12 June 1992 |
| Fate: | Scrapped via Ship-Submarine Recycling Program completed 23 October 1993 |
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| Class and type: | James Madison-class submarine |
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| Length: | 425 ft (130 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draft: | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Installed power: | S5W reactor |
| Propulsion: | 2 × geared steam turbines 15,000 shp (11,185 kW), one shaft |
| Speed: | Over 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Test depth: | 1,300 feet (400 m) |
| Complement: | Two crews (Blue and Gold) of 13 officers and 130 enlisted each |
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USS Ulysses S. Grant (SSBN-631), a James Madison-class fleet ballistic missile submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), American Civil War general and the 18th President of the United States (1869-1877).
The contract to build Ulysses S. Grant was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut, on 20 July 1961 and her keel was laid down there on 18 August 1962. She was launched on 2 November 1963, sponsored by Mrs. David W. Griffiths, the great-granddaughter of President Grant, and commissioned on 17 July 1964 with Captain J. L. From, Jr., in command of the Blue Crew. In September, Commander C.A.K. McDonald took command of the Gold Crew.
Following shakedown, the Ulysses S. Grant got underway from Groton in early December 1964, bound for the Pacific Ocean. Transiting the Panama Canal on 31 December 1964, she arrived at Pearl Harbor in January 1965. She was deployed to Guam, in the Mariana Islands, and conducted 18 deterrent patrols operating from there equipped with Polaris ballistic missiles before returning to the United States in 1969. After an and conversion to carry Poseidon ballistic missiles at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton, Washington, Ulysses S. Grant was deployed to Holy Loch, Scotland in 1970, and operated in the European area until September 1977.
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