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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 A2 missile. In the early and mid- 1970s, they were further upgraded to Polaris A3s

Boats

• USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608)
• USS Sam Houston (SSBN-609)
• USS Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610)
• USS John Marshall (SSBN-611)
• USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618)

(Note out-of-sequence numbering.)