High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Kamehameha (SSBN-642) (called Kamfish by her crew), a Benjamin Franklin class fleet ballistic submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Kamehameha I (c. 1758-1819), the first King of Hawaii (c. 1795-1819). She is one of only two ships of the United States to be named after a monarch.a She was later reclassified as an attack submarine and redesignated SSN-642.