Ethan Allen class submarine

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The USS Ethan Allen
Class overview
Builders: * General Dynamics Electric Boat Division
* Newport News Shipbuilding
Operators: United States Navy ensign United States
Preceded by: George Washington-class ballistic missile submarine
Succeeded by: Lafayette-class ballistic missile submarine
Completed: 5
Retired: 5
Preserved: 0
General characteristics
Type: Ballistic Missile Submarine
Displacement: approx. 7,900 tons submerged
Length: 410 ft 4 in (125.1 m)
Beam: 33.1 ft (10.1 m)
Draft: 27 ft 5 in (8.4 m)
Propulsion: S5W reactor - two geared steam turbines - one shaft
Speed:

16 knots surfaced,

21 knots (24 mph/39 km/h) submerged
Test depth: 1,300 ft (400 m)
Complement: 12 Officers and 128 Enlisted (two crews Blue and Gold)
Armament: 16 fleet ballistic missiles, 4 x 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

The Ethan Allen class of fleet ballistic missile submarine was an evolutionary development from the George Washington class. Together with the George Washington, the Lafayette, the James Madison, and the Benjamin Franklin classes, they comprised the "41 for Freedom."

Rather than being designed as Skipjack-class attack submarines with a missile compartment added, the Ethan Allens were designed from scratch as fleet ballistic missile submarines carrying the Polaris A-2 missile. In the early and mid-1970s, they were further upgraded to Polaris A3s.

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(Note out-of-sequence numbering.)

[edit] In fiction

In the Tom Clancy novel Hunt for Red October the Ethan Allen (by now old and ready to be broken up), is detonated near the October in order to convince the Soviets that the fictional Typhoon had been destroyed.

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