High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), a Ethan Allen-class nuclear-powered submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), the third President of the United States (1801–1809). She later was reclassified as an attack submarine and redesignated SSN-618. Thomas Jefferson's keel was laid down on 3 February 1961 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding sponsored by Mrs. Robert S. McNamara, wife of United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara; and commissioned on 4 January 1963, Commander Leon H. Rathbun commanding the Blue Crew and Commander Charles Priest, Jr., commanding the Gold Crew. USS Thomaas Jefferson was initially a fleet ballistic missile submarine and was later converted to an attack submarine.

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