Photographs of the USS James Monroe SSBN 622
USS James Monroe SSBN Launching, 8 April 1962
USS James Monroe Commissioning Ceremony At Newport News Shipbuilding And Drydock Co., Newport News, VA; 7 Dec 1963
USS James Monroe SSBN 622 During Her Alpha Trials Off The Atlantic Coast, 4 Nov 63
USS James Monroe During Sea Trials
USS James Monroe SSBN622 Underway
USS James Monroe Underway
USS James Monroe circa 1972
USS James Monroe In Holy Loch
USS James Monroe Coming Alongside The Tender Simon Lake In Holy Loch
USS James Monroe Alongside The Tender In Holy Loch
Leaving Holy Loch On Patrol
USS James Monroe during Sea Trials off Charleston, SC 1969
USS James Monroe at a Charleston, SC year pier for final testing after her overhaul
USS James Monroe Leaving Charleston For Guam
USS James Monroe Transiting The Panama Canal Between Charleston and Pearl Harbor
USS James Monroe Arriving At Sub Base Pearl Harbor
USS James Monroe Maneuering In Apra Harbor, Guam
USS James Monroe Sailing into or out of Apra Harbor, Guam
USS James Monroe Entering Apra Harbor, Guam
USS James Monroe SSBN822 Preparing To Moor Alongisde The Tender In Guam
USS James Monroe Alongside The Tender In Guam
USS James Monroe Heading To Sea From Guam
USS James Monroe Returning To Pearl Harbor From Guam On The Way To Overhaul in Newport News In October 1974
Trench 94 ( upper left ), Hanford Site, Washington, 1994. Hull sections containing defueled reactor compartments of decommissioned nuclear submarines are put in disposal trenches. Once full, the trench will be filled with dirt and buried. The compartments are expected to retain their integrity for more than 600 years.
Sealed reactor compartments are shipped by barge out of Puget Sound Naval Base down the coast and along the Columbia River to the port of Benton. There the radioactively contaminated hull sections are transferred to special multi-wheeled high load trailers for transport to the Hanford Reseration in Washinton State. Pictured abpve is the burial ground for spent fuel of 77 nuclear submarines as of 3/2003. The USS James Monroe reactor compartment is #16, fourth row from the bottom and second from the left.