Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
"FATHER OF THE NUCLEAR NAVY" RICKOVER, HYMAN G. Typed Letter Signed, "H.G. Rickover," to Representative Rodney M. Love, pointing out that the USS Benjamin Franklin was named after the American Founding Father, and giving a synopsis of Franklin's biography. 3 pages, 4to, "USS Benjamin Franklin" stationery, written on rectos of separate sheets; few scattered paper clip stains, horizontal folds. With the original envelope. "At Sea / North Atlantic," 30 August 1965
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"We have just successfully completed the first sea trials of the USS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, our thirtieth Polaris nuclear submarine. We also have in operation twenty-two attack type nuclear submarines, making a total of fifty-two. . . .
"This ship is named for Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), one of the most illustrious of our Founding Fathers. . . . [H]e was, in every sense of the word, a self-made man, owing little if anything to luck or the assistance of others, never pushing ahead at the expense of a fellow man. . . .
"His philosophy of life, the virtues he cultivated . . . are within everyone's grasp; they are as important to a good and successful life today as in his time. No American child ought to grow to adulthood without having read the Autobiography of this talented, wise and good man . . . ."