USS Baton Rouge (SSN-689)

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The Baton Rouge (back left) with three sister boats
The Baton Rouge (back left) with three sister boats
Overview
Order January 8, 1971
Keel laying November 18, 1972
Launch April 26, 1975
1. Period of service flag
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

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