USS John Adams (SSBN-620)

USS John Adams in April 1964
History
United States
Name	USS John Adams
Namesake	John Adams (1735–1826), second President of the United States (1797–1801), and John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), sixth President of the United States (1825–1829)
Ordered	23 July 1960
Builder	Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
Laid down	19 May 1961
Launched	12 January 1963
Sponsored by	Mrs. James C. Manny
Commissioned	12 May 1964
Decommissioned	24 March 1989
Stricken	24 March 1989
Fate	Scrapping via Ship-Submarine Recycling Program completed 12 February 1996
General characteristics
Class and type	Lafayette-class submarine
Type	Ballistic missile submarine (hull design SCB-216)[1]
Displacement	7,250 long tons (7,366 t) surfaced 8,250 long tons (8,382 t) submerged
Length	425 ft (130 m)
Beam	33 ft (10 m)
Draft	31 ft 6 in (9.60 m)
Propulsion	1 × S5W reactor 2 × General Electric geared turbines=15,000 shp (11,000 kW)[1]
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h) surfaced 25 knots (46 km/h) submerged
Complement	Two crews (Blue and Gold), 13 officers and 130 enlisted men each
Sensors and processing systems	BQS-4 sonar[1]
Armament	4 × 21 in (530 mm) Mark 65 torpedo tubes with Mark 113 firecontrol system,[1] for Mark 48 torpedoes 16 × vertical tubes for Polaris or Poseidon ballistic missiles

USS John Adams (SSBN-620), a Lafayette-class ballistic missile submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Founding Father John Adams (1735–1826), the second President of the United States (1797–1801), and his son John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), the sixth President of the United States (1825–1829). Both names were used with the captains of the Blue and Gold crews alternately using the names John Adams and John Quincy Adams.