A History of the Submarines Built at the
Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Exhibit by Steve Shay
Frame 3, Page 10
USS Mariano G. Vallejo SSBN-658
Benjamin Franklin class (No reported postmarks)
Launched October 23, 1965
Upper: Launch cover, cachet sponsored by USS Saginaw Chapter USCS,
shipyard handstamp postmark.
Lower: Commissioning cover, ship's cachet, shipyard handstamp postmark.
Commissioned December 16, 1966.
Began operations 1967 with Pacific Fleet.
Decommissioned March 10, 1995, scrapping/recycling completed December 22, 1995.
Sail currently resides on Mare Island dock as future display for a museum.
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Last Updated: March 24, 2002
Copyright 2002 Steve Shay (used with permission)