Conversion To Attack Submarine, 1982
In 1982 Patrick Henry and many of her sister ships had their ballistic missile tubes disabled and were reclassified as attack submarines (SSNs). Patrick Henry was redesignated SSN-599.
- History from 1982 to 1984 needed.
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