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HISTORY
USS MICHIGAN (SSBN-727) is the second TRIDENT Class Nuclear Powered Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine to have been constructed at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics
Corporation in Groton, Connecticut. MICHIGAN was commissioned on 11 September 1982 and is the third United States Navy vessel to bear the name of the state. MICHIGAN arrived in Bangor on 16 March 1983 and has
completed thirty-three Strategic Deterrent Patrols.
In 2003 the USS Michigan entered the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, WA for conversion from an Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine into a Guided
Missile Submarine. In June 2007, the new USS Michigan SSGN-727 was returned to service as one of only 4 SSGN's in the submarine fleet.
FIRST USS MICHIGAN 1843-1922
The USS
MICHIGAN, renamed the USS WOLVERINE, was the first iron warship in the U.S. Navy and probably the first iron or steel warship of her size in the world. She was originally designed as a "three-mast, topsail
schooner" with auxiliary steam power.
The MICHIGAN was on duty on the Great Lakes during the Civil War but never engaged in battle. In 1905 a new USS MICHIGAN (BB27) was to be
commissioned by the U.S. Navy. The original MICHIGAN was renamed the WOLVERINE, after the MICHIGAN state animal. About 1910 she was turned over to the Naval Reserve as a Training Ship and remained active in this
capacity until 1922 when one of her engines broke down.
SECOND USS MICHIGAN (BB27)1910-1922
The second MICHIGAN (BB27) was laid down 17 December 1906 by New York Shipbuilding Co.,
Camden, NJ; launched 26 May 1908 and commissioned 4 January 1910.
Assigned to the Atlantic Fleet, MICHIGAN, with sister ship SOUTH CAROLINA, were the U.S. Navy's first class of
dreadnoughts or all big-gun battleships. The layering of her main armament 12" guns and placement of all turrets on the centerline was a novel arrangement which spread as a universal battleship arrangement.
Prior to 1914 the battleship MICHIGAN operated in the North Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, and along the Atlantic Coast. During World War I, the warship escorted convoys, trained recruits, and
engaged in fleet maneuvers. On 6 August 1919, the MICHIGAN was placed in limited commission and conducted various training cruises.
MICHIGAN was decommissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard 11
February 1922 and was stricken from the Navy list 10 November 1923 in accordance with the treaty limiting naval armaments.
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