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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
The James Madison class ballistic missile submarine USS Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) moored at Newport News, VA during the mid-1960s.
The hatches of her sixteen ballistic missile tubes are each decorated to look like a different billiard ball. Each of these hatches covered a silo that would have contained a Polaris A-3 ballistic missile and later, upon introduction, the more capable Poseidon.
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So what color is the 16th hatch? Isn't there a billiards-knowledgeable person around here?
I can't recall the details, but I think the poseidon was - to this day - why we up here in the NM mountains are "los alamos naval laboratory". Rickover's branch of the USN holds a grudge...