USS Benjamin Franklin (SSBN-640)

USS Benjamin Franklin (SSBN-640) was a Benjamin Franklin-class fleet ballistic missile submarine commissioned into the United States Navy on October 22, 1965. As part of the nation's strategic deterrent force during the Cold War, she conducted numerous deterrent patrols armed with Polaris and later Poseidon ballistic missiles. Throughout her service, the submarine operated primarily out of forward-deployed bases in the Atlantic, ensuring a continuous at-sea nuclear deterrent. USS Benjamin Franklin was decommissioned on November 23, 1993, and subsequently scrapped under the Nuclear-Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program.