The USS JOHN ADAMS (SSBN-620), a Lafayette-class submarine, was commissioned on 12 MAY 1964. USS JOHN ADAMS was named for the second President of the US, and his son, the sixth President of the US. JOHN ADAMS was built at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, in Kittery, Maine, just north...
USS John Adams (SSBN-620), a Lafayette-class ballistic missile submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for John Adams (1735–1826), the second President of the United States (1797-1801), and his son John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), the sixth President of ...