2 news clippings 1) with photo of USS ALEXANDER HAMILITON SSBN 617 tied up at Electric Boat piers on Oct 16...2) photo of USS PATRICK HENRY ( SSBN599) Ready for Missile Testing Backs away from EB dock Tuesday and heads down the Thames and out to sea

Sub Alexander Hamilton USBN 599
Sub Alexander Hamilton USBN 599

Name/Title

2 news clippings 1) with photo of USS ALEXANDER HAMILITON SSBN 617 tied up at Electric Boat piers on Oct 16...2) photo of USS PATRICK HENRY ( SSBN599) Ready for Missile Testing Backs away from EB dock Tuesday and heads down the Thames and out to sea

Entry/Object ID

2016.1.0726

Scope and Content

2 newspaper clippings 1) with a black and white photo of Sub 617 (USS ALEXANDER HAMILITON SSBN 617) The caption begins "The Alexander Hamilton tied up at Electric Boat piers on October 16, completing a shakedown cruise which began from the shipyard July 2…." 2) Another news clipping with a black and white photo of the Sub Patrick Henry #99. The caption reads " Ready for Missile Testing - Backing Out USS Patrick Henry backs away from her EB dock Tuesday and prepares to head down the Thames and out to sea to test missile-firing capability…"

Collection

James L. Streeter Collection

Acquisition

Accession

2016.1

Source or Donor

Streeter, James L.

Acquisition Method

Gift

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Clipping, Newspaper

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Clipping

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Docks, Military personnel, Missiles, Submarines

Search Terms

Navy, Newspapers, Submarines, Cape Canaveral, Electric Boat, New London, Supervisor of Shipbuilding (SUBSHIP), Thames River, USS ALEXANDER HAMILITON (SSBN 617), USS PATRICK HENRY (SSBN-599)

Archive Details

Restrictions

Access: Discolouration/fading

Archive Notes

Date(s): 1960 (?)

General Notes

Note

Status: Good Status By: Maureen A. McClellan Status Date: 2019-05-06