>From the “Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships,” 

(1969) Vol. 4, p.236.





MARIANO G. VALLEJO



	Gen. Mariano G. Vallejo, born 7 July 1808 at Monterey, 

Calif., entered the Monterey Presidial Academy in 1823.  

Appointed Secretary to the Governor of California in 1825, 

he later served as Commander of the Presidio at San 

Francisco, and in 1836 was appointed Commandante General and 

Director of Colonization of the Northern Frontier, the 

highest military command in northern California.  That 

appointment terminated during the Bear Flag Revolt, General 

Vallejo, in spite of substantial losses suffered as a result 

of that revolution chose to remain in his home State and 

support separation from Mexico and annexation by the United 

States.  An influential member of the State’s Constitutional 

Convention, he was elected a member of the first State 

Senate (1850).  He continued to devote his energies to the 

development of California for the remainder of his life.  

General Vallejo died at Sonoma, Calif., 12 January 1890.





SSBN-658



Displacement:

	Surfaced:  7,250 t.

	Submerged:  8,250 t.

Length:  425’

Beam:  33’

Draft:  32’

Speed:  20+ k.

Complement:  122

Armament:  16 Polaris missiles

Class:  BENJAMIN FRANKLIN



	The fleet ballistic missile nuclear submarine MARIANO 

G. VALLEJO was laid down 7 July 1964 at the Mare Island 

Division, San Francisco Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, Calif.; 

launched 23 October 1965; sponsored by Miss Patricia O. V. 

McGettigan, great-great-granddaughter of General Vallejo; 

and commissioned 16 December 1966, Comdr. Douglas B. Guthe 

(blue crew) and Comdr. John K. Nunneley (gold crew) in 

command.



	MARIANO G. VALLEJO, with two complete, equally trained 

crews, rotated at regular intervals to maximize patrol “on 

station” time, conducted shakedown and training exercises 

along the west coast, in the Caribbean, and off the coast of 

Florida.  Transiting the Panama Canal for the second time on 

21 March 1967, she headed for her assigned home port, Pearl 

Harbor.  Arriving 10 April, she continued training exercises 

and sound trials, then returned briefly to Mare Island.  

Thence, she sailed back to Pearl Harbor, becoming, as of 

1 August, an on-the-line unit of Submarine Squadron 15.  

Since that time, into 1969, she has conducted deterrent 

patrols as a unit of the Pacific Fleet.



	[Decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel 

Register on 10 March 1995, MARIANO G. VALLEJO went through 

the Navy’s Nuclear Powered Ship and Recycling Program at 

Bremerton, Washington, from 1 October 1994 to 22 December 

1995.  When she emerged from the program, she no longer 

existed as a complete ship and was classed as scrapped.



Internet web site:

	United States Naval & Shipbuilding Museum

		www.uss-salem.org/worldnav/usa/decom.htm





Transcribed by Michael Hansen

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