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POLARIS submarine USS George Washington (SSBN-598)
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USS George Washington (SSBN-598), the lead ship of her class of ballistic missile submarines, was the third[2] United States Navy ship of the name, in honor of George Washington (1732-1799), first President of the United States, and the first of that name to be purpose-built as a warship.

George Washington's keel was laid down at Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics, Groton, Connecticut on 1 November 1957. The first submarine of the George Washington class submarine, she was launched on 9 June 1959 sponsored by Mrs. Robert B. Anderson, and commissioned on 30 December 1959 with Commander James B. Osborn in command of the Blue crew and Commander John L. From, Jr. in command of the Gold crew.

George Washington was originally laid down as an attack submarine named USS Scorpion (SSN-589). During construction, she was lengthened by the insertion of a 130-foot- (40-meter)-long ballistic missile section and renamed George Washington; another submarine under construction at the time received both the name Scorpion and hull number SSN-589 and became the ill-fated Scorpion, but inside George Washington's forward escape hatch a plaque remained bearing her original name, USS Scorpion. Because the ballistic missile compartment design of George Washington would be reused in later ship classes, the section inserted into George Washington was designed with a deeper test depth rating than the rest of the submarine

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