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the George Washington, the Ethan Allen, the Lafayette, and the James Madison classes, they comprised the "41 for Freedom."

The Franklin class submarines were built with the Polaris A-3, and later converted to carry the Poseidon C-3. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, select units were further modified to carry Trident-I (C-4) missiles.

In the early 1980s, to make room for the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines within the limits set by SALT II, the missile tubes of

were disabled. Those boats were redesignated special operations attack submarines and given SSN hull classification symbols.

Boats

(Boats marked with * indicate C-4 conversions.)

• (SSBN-640) USS Benjamin Franklin *
• (SSBN-642) USS Simon Bolivar *
• (SSBN/SSN-642) USS Kamehameha
• (SSBN-643) USS George BancroftUSS George Bancroft (SSBN-643 a Benjamin Franklin class ballistic missile submarine, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft, the founder of the United States Naval Academy, though the first thre *
• (SSBN-644) USS Lewis and Clarkinsert image here insert caption here ''insert link to larger image here Career Awarded: 1 November 1962 Laid down: 29 July 1963 Launched: 21 November 1964 Commissioned: 22 December 1965 Fate:submarine recycling Stricken: 1 August 1992 General Characteris
• (SSBN/SSN-645) USS James K. Polk
• (SSBN-654) USS George C. MarshallUSS George C. Marshall (SSBN-654 a Benjamin Franklin class ballistic missile submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for General of the Army George C. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Do
• (SSBN-655) USS Henry L. Stimsoninsert image here insert caption here ''insert link to larger image here Career Awarded: 29 July 1963 Laid down: 4 April 1964 Launched: 13 November 1965 Commissioned: 20 August 1966 Fate:submarine recycling Stricken: 5 May 1993 General Characteristics Dis *
• (SSBN-656) USS George W. Carver
• (SSBN-657) USS Francis Scott KeyUSS Francis Scott Key (SSBN-657 a Benjamin Franklin class ballistic missile submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Francis Scott Key, the author of the poem "The Defense of Fort McHenry," the first verse of became known as *
• (SSBN-658) USS Mariano G. Vallejo *
• (SSBN-659) USS Will Rogers