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USS George Washington SSBN-598 Submarine Model

Submariners!  Enjoy this beautifully crafted USS George Washington SSBN-598 Submarine Model. You’ll love the wood craftsmanship and detail of this historic submarine.

• 20 inches
• Made from Mahogany
• US Naval Veteran Owned Business

USS George Washington (SSBN-598) was the United States’s first operational ballistic missile submarine. She was the lead ship of her class of nuclear ballistic missile submarines, was the third[5] United States Navy ship of the name, in honor of Founding Father George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States, and was the first of that name to be purpose-built as a warship.

George Washington left Groton on 28 June 1960 for Cape Canaveral, Florida, where she loaded two Polaris missiles. Standing out into the Atlantic Missile Test Range with Rear Admiral William Raborn, head of the Polaris submarine development program, on board as an observer, she successfully conducted the first Polaris missile launch from a submerged submarine on 20 July 1960. At 12:39, George Washington’s commanding officer sent President Dwight Eisenhower the message: POLARIS – FROM OUT OF THE DEEP TO TARGET. PERFECT. Less than two hours later a second missile from the submarine also struck the impact area 1,100 nmi (1,300 mi; 2,000 km) downrange.[7]