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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, First Class
Photo & crew assignments courtesy of Donald H. HULSE, EMC(SS) USN, RET.
Naval Training Program - October 15, 1962 to
November 16, 1962
SSB(N) 623 Nathan Hale, SSB(N) 624 Woodrow Wilson
First row seated, left to right
W. A. Kennington, J. S. Hurt, D. W. Walter, E. A. Wardwell, M. S. Blair, T.
A.Bryce, D. P. Hall,
A. B. Cutter, L.S. Vellom, W.V. Johnson, S.B. Smith
Second row, left to right
R. D. Byars, F. E. Long, D. H.
Hulse, A. E. Siebert III, G. S. Nordell, R. D.
Martin,
T. E. Stratton, H. M. Fort, C. J. Callahan, J. S. Hammitt, K. R. Boisvert
Third row, left to right
E. J. Purdy, R. G. Carroll, E. A. Christiensen, R. F.
Kunze, M. P. Rudd, B. O.
Boast,
L. L. Lenz, W. T. Brann, D. E. McGraw, I. H. Jackson, T. W. George,
C. D.
Shugart
Fourth row, left to right
J. P. Lowman, L. C. Crummer, M. C. Bartlett, R. L.
Armstrong, A. C. Cook, L. K. Chandler,
O.A. Korbelik, L. D. Whitaker, R. E. De Vries, L. L.
Hayes, S. M. Buchanan
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, Second Class
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 row, 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
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