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SSN-642 Kamehameha with DDS, American Submarine model kit Manufacturer: Micro-Mir (Ukraine) Scale: 1/350 Material: Plastic Paint: Unpainted, Unassembled, Kit do not contain paints and glue. Condition: New in Box This kit includes: -plastic parts -decal -photoetched -detailed instruction in English -scheme of paiting the kit. USS Kamehameha (SSBN-642) (called Kamfish by her crew), a Benjamin Franklin-class ballistic missile submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Kamehameha I, the first King of Hawaii (c. 1758–1819). 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. The ship's motto was Imua, which roughly translates (from the Hawaiian) as "go forth and conquer." Another motto used by her crew was Kam do. The contract to build Kamehameha was awarded to Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California, on 31 August 1962, and her keel was laid down there on 2 May 1963. She was launched on 16 January 1965, sponsored by Mrs. Pauline Nawahineokalai King (née Evans), widow of Samuel Wilder King, and commissioned on 10 December 1965 with Commander Roth S. Leddick in command of the Blue Crew and Commander Robert W. Dickieson in command of the Gold Crew.