[presidio9]

I'd be interested to know how many other Seawolf class submarines are named after US Presidents. Or, for that matter, if there are ANY submarines named after Presidents.

[Darkwolf377]

I'm surprised he didn't ask them to name it the Fidel Castro.

[SilentServiceCPO]

I'd be interested to know how many other Seawolf class submarines are named after US Presidents. Or, for that matter, if there are ANY submarines named after Presidents

Not any more, there were quite a few at one time, almost all of the original "boomers" (41 for Freedom), but they are all decommissioned now.

[MyFreedomIHoldDear]

Here you go.
(SSBN-598) George Washington
(SSBN-599) Patrick Henry
(SSBN-600) Theodore Roosevelt
(SSBN-601) Robert E. Lee
(SSBN-602) Abraham Lincoln
(SSN-603) Pollack
(SSN-604) Haddo
(SSN-605) Jack
(SSN-606) Tinosa
(SSN-607) Dace
(SSBN-608) Ethan Allen
(SSBN-609) Sam Houston
(SSBN-610) Thomas A. Edison
(SSBN-611) John Marshall
(SSN-612) Guardfish
(SSN-613) Flasher
(SSN-614) Greenling
(SSN-615) Gato
(SSBN-616) Lafayette
(SSBN-617) Alexander Hamilton
(SSBN-618) Thomas Jefferson

[AntiGuv]

Carter was a submarine officer so I'm sure that's why they decided to name it after him. The final decision is made by the Secretary of the Navy and the USS Carter was named back in 1998, so that helps explain it. There are only two other Seawolf class submarines right now and they are the USS Seawolf and the USS Connecticut (they're built at Groton, CT).

[Barney1995]

Nope. That's only the one, so far. There are only three in existence, Seawolf, Connecticut and the Jimmy Carter. As for those of other classes named after U.S. presidents: Ethan Allen class: George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln. Lafayette class: Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, John Adams, James Monroe, Woodrow Wilson, James Madison, Ulysses S. Grant, all nuclear, all retired. Names can now be recycled to aircraft carriers, as in Abraham
Lincoln.:-)