February 2nd - On This Date - USN Submarine Service

1909 - 

PCU SEAL (later G-1) (SS-19½) keel laid as SEAL at Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company, Newport News, VA.

1910 - 

PCU SNAPPER (later C-5) (SS-16) commissioned USS SNAPPER at Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, MA; Ensign C. W. Nimitz commanding.

1942 - 

PCU JACK (SS-259) keel laid as JACK at the Electric Boat Company, Groton, CT.

1959 - 

USS POMPON (SS-267) decommissioned at Charleston, SC.

1966 - 

USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (SSBN-598), after long deployment on many submerged patrols, completed her initial overhaul and was refitted to carry the 2,500 mile range Polaris A-3 missile.

2004 - 

USS MICHIGAN (SSBN-727) entered the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, WA to begin an engineered refueling overhaul and conversion to a guided missile submarine (SSGN). MICHIGAN is one of four Ohio-class Trident submarines previously scheduled for inactivation during Fiscal Years 2003 and 2004 that are being converted to guided missile submarines (SSGN) over a five-year period ending in 2008. The primary missions of the SSGN will be land attack and Special Operations Forces (SOF) insertion and support. Secondary missions will be the traditional attack submarine missions of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), battle space preparation, and sea control. These ships will be armed with up to 154 Tomahawk® or Tactical Tomahawk® land attack missiles. Each SSGN will be able to conduct a variety of peacetime, conventional deterrent, and combat operations all within the same deployment. USS OHIO (SSBN-726) entered the conversion yard on 15 November 2002.