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Howard & the Woody Woo Gold Crew

U.S.S. Woodrow Wilson, SSB(N)624 on maiden voyage going under Golden Gate Bridge, October 20 1963.

Statistics
Length 425 feet Beam 33 feet
Displacement, Surfaced 7500 tons....Submerged 8200 tons
Armament Forward, 4 Torpedo Tubes....Amidships, 16 Missile Tubes
Depth, in excess of 400 feet...Speed, in excess of 20 knots
Propulsion, Westinghouse S5W Nuclear Reactor
Naval Personnel Allowance, Officers 13...Enlisted 124
Keel Laid, September 13, 1961
Launched, February 22, 1963
Maiden Voyage, October 20, 1963
Commissioned, December 27, 1963
Building Shipyard, Mare Island Naval Shipyard Vallejo, California.

Close up of Rickover and the boys going under Golden Gate Bridge.

How these pictures of the maiden voyage were taken

Arriving Port Everglades, Florida.

U.S.S. Woodrow Wilson Blue Crew firing Polaris Missile down the Atlantic Missile Range. Taken from U.S.S. Observation Island.

 

Polaris Missle exhaust trail.

Howard at swim call, on deck of Woody Woo in the Bahamas.

 

Capt. Dietzen smiling in sail.

Leaving Port Everglades with memorial wreath to honor the U.S.S. Thresher on deck.

Howard returning to the Woody Woo on liberty boat.

No Woody Woo web sight would be complete without the official Navy photographs given to Plank Owners.

Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory

Photo courtesy of Bill Jonker, our Chief, Gold Crew Reactor Operators

Naval Training Program - March 18, 1963 to April 19, 1963
SSB(N) 620 G John Adams - SSB(N) 624 G Woodrow Wilson

First Row, seated, left to right
T. J. Lem, J. A. Yavorosky, C. F. Spence, V. L. Oehlsen, J. F. Robinson, S. J. Kosman, B. W. Jonker,
M. T. Sande, H. D. Butcher, F. W. Borgmann, G. A. Wester, C. L. Stringfellow
Second rol, left to right
R. E. Crow, D. R. Black, L. E. Juillerat, L. W. Fricke, J. A. Sullivan, F. C. Robinson,
D. E. Stahl, H. S. Larsen, J. C. Grayelle, N. A. Bickford
Third Row, left to right
R. A. Mullin, J. E. Brantley, E. H. Halder, D. J. Funke, R. L. Estes, A. L. Chase,
H. R. Hoyt, H. J. Hauser, C. S. Brown, R. E. Gossen

U.S.S. Woodrow Wilson SSB(N)624 Commissioning Program.
Dec. 27, 1963 San Francisco Examiner
Dec. 27, 1963 San Francisco News Call Bulletin

 

 

 

Howard R. Hoyt, ET2(SS), Now Howard R. Hoyt, M.S. currently lives in Berwyn, IL.

I work in Medical Electronics at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center, and hold a faculty appointment to Rush University, Medical School. I also teach computers, photography and other fun things at Morton College, Cicero, IL.

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WOODROW WILSON Association official home page

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