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: ''This page is about the submarine built in the 1960s. For other ships with the same name, please see the disambiguation page at [[Von Steuben]]''.
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|Ordered:
|[[20 July]] [[1961]]
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|Laid down:
|[[4 September]] [[1962]]
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|Launched:
|[[18 October]] [[1963]]
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|Commissioned:
|[[30 September]] [[1964]]
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|Decommissioned:
|[[26 February]] [[1994]]
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|Fate:
|submarine recycling
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|Stricken:
|[[26 February]] [[1994]]
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|Displacement:
|6504 tons light, tons full
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|Length:
|129.5 meters (425 feet)
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|Propulsion:
|[[S5W reactor]]
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'''USS ''Von Steuben'' (SSBN-632)''', a [[James Madison class submarine|''James Madison''-class]] [[ballistic missile]] [[submarine]], was the second ship of the [[United States Navy]] to be named for Baron [[Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben]] ([[1730]]–[[1794]]), the German army officer who served in the [[American Revolutionary War]].
The contract to build her was awarded to [[Newport News Shipbuilding]] and Dry Dock Company in [[Newport News, Virginia]] on [[20 July]] [[1961]] and her keel was laid down on [[4 September]] [[1962]]. She was [[ship naming and launching|launched]] on [[18 October]] [[1963]] sponsored by Mrs. Fred Korth, and [[ship commissioning|commissioned]] on [[30 September]] [[1964]], with Commander John P. Wise in command of the Blue Crew and Commander Jeffrey C. Metzel in command of the Gold Crew.
During the fall of [[1964]], the fleet ballistic missile submarine completed two shakedown cruises—one for each crew—and a period of antisubmarine warfare (ASW) training between the two. On [[22 December]], the submarine's Gold Crew fired her first [[Polaris missile]] on the Atlantic missile range before returning to Newport News for [[Christmas]]. She changed crews again at the beginning of the new year, [[1965]], and returned to the missile range off [[Cape Canaveral]] (then called [[Cape Kennedy]]) where the Blue Crew fired its first missile. In February, after completing all initial training operations, she returned to Newport News.
In March, ''Von Steuben'' headed for her first duty assignment. The submarine joined Submarine Squadron 18 (SubRon 18) at [[Charleston, South Carolina]], her new base of operations, and immediately began conducting strategic deterrent patrols.
At the end of her 11th patrol early in [[1968]], ''Von Steuben'' was reassigned to SubRon 16 and operated out of [[Rota, Spain]], until the middle of [[1969]]. During that assignment, she visited [[Groton, Connecticut]], in the summer of [[1968]] for repairs at the [[Electric Boat]] Division of [[General Dynamics]] Corporation, after which she resumed deterrent patrols out of Rota. In November [[1970]], she visited Groton once again, this time near the end of a 16-month overhaul during which she was modified to carry the newly developed [[Poseidon C-3 missile]]. She conducted post-conversion shakedown during the early months of [[1971]] and fired her first and second Poseidon missiles in February and March, respectively. She returned to Charleston and resumed deterrent patrols in May [[1971]].
:''23 years of history go here''
In the early 1980s, the Von Steuben was converted to carry the new Trident C-4 missile. During the 1980s and early 1990s, the Von Steuben operated out of Kings Bay, Georgia as part of Submarine Squadron 16. Off-crew periods were spent training in Charleston, SC, where all the crews' families lived.
''Von Steuben'' was decommissioned on [[26 February]] [[1994]] and stricken from the [[Naval Vessel Register]] on [[26 February]] [[1994]]. Ex-''Von Steuben'' entered the Nuclear Powered [[Ship and Submarine Recycling Program]] in [[Bremerton, Washington]], on [[1 October]] [[2000]], and on [[30 October]] [[2001]] ceased to exist.
== References ==
Based on data from the [[Naval Vessel Register]]
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[[Category:James Madison class submarines|Von Steuben 632]]
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