USS Albany (SSN-753)

Albany in Chesapeake Bay
Overview
Order	November 28, 1983
Keel laying	April 22, 1985
Launch	June 13, 1987
1. Period of service
Commissioning	April 7, 1990
Technical specifications
displacement	6300 tons surfaced, 7100 tons submerged
length	110.3 m
width	10 m
Draft	9.7 m
Diving depth	approx. 300 m
crew	12 officers, 115 men
drive	An S6G reactor
speed	30+ knots
Armament	4 533 mm torpedo tubes , 12 VLS tubes

The USS Albany (SSN-753) is a nuclear-powered submarine of the United States Navy and is part of the Los Angeles-class submarine to. It is named after the city of Albany in New York .

history

The contract to build SSN-753 went to Newport News Shipbuilding in 1983 . In 1985 the boat was laid down, and in 1987 the ship was launched and christened. The godmother was Nancy M. Kissinger, the wife of Henry Kissinger . On April 7, 1990, the Albany was finally officially put into service. The boat was the last submarine in the US Navy to be built in the traditional way from Kiel up, and thus also the last to actually be launched instead of floating up as newer boats do.

In 2004 the Albany sailed in the Gulf of Oman , where it took part in a multinational submarine hunt exercise. In 2006 this was followed by an exercise in the Gulf of Guinea and the fight against drug smuggling in the Caribbean. In early 2008, the submarine moved alongside the USS Nassau (LHA-4) for seven months in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. In part, it operates independently of the group and has visited ports in France, Italy and Norway.

Web links

Commons : USS Albany  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Entry in the Naval Vessel Register (Engl.)
• Official Homepage (Engl.)
• Images on navsource.org (Engl.)