18 NOVEMBER 1978 FBM tender USS HUNLEY (AS 31) deployed to relieve USS PROTEUS (AS 19) at the Guam tender site. 18 NOVEMBER 1980 The United Kingdom conducted an underwater launch of a U.K. POLARIS (A3TK) missile. 18 NOVEMBER 1988 USS TENNESSEE (SSBN 734), the ninth TRIDENT submarine, was delivered 43 days ahead of schedule and below the target cost to the Navy by the shipbuilder, Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics, Groton, CT. 18 NOVEMBER 1993 USS NEBRASKA (SSBN 739) Gold Crew successfully launched one TRIDENT II (D5) missile during a Demonstration and Shakedown Operation. This was the last new construction TRIDENT submarine to conduct two firing DASOs.
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