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This Day in Boat History

This Day in Boat History

20 March 1961 After transiting the Panama Canal the USS Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN 600) successfully fired its first Polaris A1 missile. By 1967 the TR Would be carrying the Polaris A3.

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