USS Georgia (SSGN-729)

USS Georgia 1988 at the pier at Pearl Harbor
Overview
Order	February 20, 1976
Keel laying	April 7, 1979
Launch	November 6, 1982
1. Period of service
Commissioning	February 11, 1984
Technical specifications
displacement	16,764 tons surfaced, 18,750 tons submerged
length	170.7 m
width	12.8 m
Draft	11.1 m
crew	15 officers, 140 sailors
drive	An S8G reactor
speed	20+ kn submerged
Armament	154 cruise missiles, 4 torpedo tubes

The USS Georgia (SSBN- / SSGN-729) is a United States Navy submarine and belongs to the Ohio class .

history

The boat was commissioned from Electric Boat in 1976 and was launched there in 1982. The Georgia was put into service in 1984, then still as SSBN , so for the use of ICBMs .

At the beginning of the 21st century, it was decided to convert four Ohio-class boats to SSGN, i.e. for the launch of cruise missiles . The Georgia was the fourth of these boats. Preparations remodeling began on November 7, 2003, when Georgia in the Naval Base Kitsap eindockte to have discharged their ICBMs. An accident happened with the sixteenth missile. After a ladder was lowered into the shaft and the crane was attached to the rocket, the crew paused and forgot to remove the ladder when they returned. When the rocket was lifted, the metal ladder cut a 229 millimeter long hole in the nose of the rocket. After the accident, three soldiers from the Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific were brought to court martial and the facility was immediately closed. It was only reopened after an inspection on January 9, 2004.

In March 2005, the Georgia finally docked at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard to begin the conversion. On November 29, she left the shipyard for test drives. The boat returned to the fleet on March 28, but will be modernized again between summer 2008 and early 2009.

Web links

Commons : USS Georgia (SSGN-729)  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Official homepage ( Memento of July 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive )