USS Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602) was an American George Washington-class submarine. Units of this type were nuclear-powered submarines - carriers of ballistic missiles (SSBN), which were built in the years 1959-1960. In total, five units of this class were created. The length of the George Washington-class ship was 116.4 m, width 10 m, and a displacement of 6,700 tons. The maximum underwater speed is approx. 22 knots. The main armament of units of this class consisted of 16 Polaris A-1 or A-3 ballistic missile launchers and 4 533 mm torpedo tubes.
The George Washington-class ships were the first in the history of the US Navy and the world's first SSBNs, i.e. nuclear-powered ships carrying missiles with nuclear warheads. What's more, they were designed in such a way that the missiles could be fired from an underwater position, which made it much more difficult to detect the unit. They were also the first ships in the US Navy to have two rotating crews (gold and blue). Units of this type gave rise to such classes as, for example, Lafayette and Ethan Allen, collectively known as "41 for Freedom". The keel was laid under the USS Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602) in 1958, the ship was launched in 1960, and she entered service a year later. In the 1960s, the unit operated mainly in the Atlantic, using, inter alia, the British Holy Hoch base in Scotland. In the 1970s it was transferred to the Pacific. In 1979, the ship returned from her last patrol, and three years later she was removed from the US Navy.