USS Baton Rouge (SSN-689)
 The Baton Rouge (back left) with three sister boats |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | January 8, 1971 |
| Keel laying | November 18, 1972 |
| Launch | April 26, 1975 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | June 25, 1977 |
| Decommissioning | January 13, 1995 |
| Whereabouts | Abandoned in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard |
| 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 |
The USS Baton Rouge (SSN 689) was a nuclear-powered submarine of the United States Navy and belonged to the Los Angeles-class submarine to. It is named after the city of Baton Rouge in Louisiana .
history
The Baton Rouge was launched on April 26, 1975 by Newport News Shipbuilding , and was handed over to the United States Navy on June 25, 1977 . In 1978, the six-month post-shakedown docking period took place at NNS . At the end of the year, the submarine left the US coast and moved to the Mediterranean, where it docked in La Maddalena on November 1st . In 1979, Baton Rouge took part in the NATO exercise Operation Ocean Safari in the North Sea.
collision
On February 11, 1992, the Baton Rouge was on a patrol off the island of Kildin near Severomorsk on the Kola Peninsula . There she collided with the Russian submarine B-276 of the Sierra class while submerged . The B-276 ran into the Baton Rouge from below . Boris Yeltsin then publicly complained about US Navy operations near Russian territorial waters , and the Navy publicly admitted for the first time ever that a collision had occurred.
Decommissioning
Less than two years later, the Baton Rouge was the first of the Los Angeles boats to be decommissioned. The ship was in service for just over 17 years, originally up to 30 years. The ship, now ex-Baton Rouge , was dismantled by September 30, 1997 in the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard .
Web links
- Baton Rouge in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (Engl.)
- Report on the USS Baton Rouge (Engl.)