Francis Scott Key SSBN 657

USS Francis Scott Key (SSBN-657) was a Benjamin Franklin-class fleet ballistic missile submarine of the United States Navy. Commissioned in 1966, she served as a critical component of America's nuclear deterrent during the Cold War, carrying Polaris and later Poseidon ballistic missiles. The submarine conducted numerous strategic deterrent patrols out of bases such as Rota, Spain, and Kings Bay, Georgia. After nearly three decades of service, Francis Scott Key was decommissioned in 1993 and subsequently scrapped through the Nuclear-Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program.