SSBN 657 Captains

This page is dedicated to the 17 men who were given the honor of commanding the Francis Scott Key. Their unique talents and capabilities propelled them to command one of the nations most powerful deterrent weapon systems which ultimately led to the ending of the cold war. Commanding an FBM submarine, as we all know, is no easy task and one not many men could handle, yet excel. The men listed below did both.

Blue Crew		Gold Crew
65 - 68	CAPT Frank W. Graham	65 - 69	LCDR Joseph B. Logan (Deceased 1998)
68 - 71	CDR Luther D.Yarger (deceased 2/27/07)	69 - 72	CDR James P. Forsyth (Deceased 7 May 2011)
71 - 72	CDR Stanley E. Bump (deceased 11 Aug 2015)
72 - 73	CDR Stanley E. Bump - Overhaul/Poseidon Conversion in Bremerton, WA - Merged Crews
73 - 75	CDR Stanley E. Bump	73 - 77?	CDR Percy M. Beard (deceased 23 Dec 2018)
75 - 79	CDR William J.Hastie	77? - 80	CDR George Mensch
79 - 82	CDR H. M. Spruitenburg	80 - 81	CAPT Lawrence T. Ross
		81 - 83	CDR Gregory Bajuk
83 - 84	CDR Gregory Bajuk - Refuel overhaul Newport News, VA - Merged Crews
84 - 89	CDR David Miller	84 - 88	CDR Robert T. France **
89 - 92	CDR Skip Weitz	88 - 89	CDR Jimmy Ellis
		89 - 92	CDR William Rogers Jr.
		92 - Decom	CDR Carl Olson

I would like to get as many of the COs as I can to give us a brief written narrative of their time on the Key. If you were CO on the Key, please contact me at ssbn657@comcast.net. If you have a picture of a CO also send it along. If a COs name is underlined, click on it for more information and/ or a picture of that CO. If there are two ** beside his name, this indicates that the CO has written a narrative history of his time on the Key