Round shaped, antique brass colored coin, 1-1/2 inches in diameter. Click to enlarge
Unit/Organization Information
  • USS Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610)
Additional Information
Date Acquired: Prior to 21 March 2008
Donated by: Unknown
Copies: 1 of 1

C002424

Location: 11M2 X

Coin: Unit

U.S. Navy » Vessels - Submarines

Narrative

Round shaped, antique brass colored coin, 1-1/2 inches in diameter.

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USS Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), an Ethan Allen-class ballistic-missile submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the inventor, Thomas Edison (1847-–1931). In 1981, in compliance with the SALT I treaty, the missile section of Thomas A. Edison was deactivated. Concrete blocks were placed in the ballistic missile tubes and the ballistic missile fire-control system, as was one of the ship's inertial navigation systems. The ship was reclassified an attack submarine, given hull number SSN-610 on 6 October 1980, and retained primarily for training, antisubmarine warfare exercises, and other secondary duties.

Decommissioned on 1 December 1983, Thomas A. Edison was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 April 1986. She went through the Navy's Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, beginning on 1 October 1996 and on 1 December 1997 ceased to exist as the recycling was completed.