USS Groton (SSN-694)
 The Groton in Gibraltar |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | January 31, 1971 |
| Keel laying | 3rd August 1973 |
| Launch | October 9, 1976 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | July 8, 1978 |
| Decommissioning | November 7, 1997 |
| Whereabouts | Is cancelled |
| 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 Groton (SSN-694) was a nuclear-powered submarine of the United States Navy and belonged to the Los Angeles-class submarine to. The boat was named for Groton , Connecticut .
history
The order to build SSN-694 was given to Electric Boat , a shipyard belonging to the General Dynamics group , in early 1971 . The keel was laid two years later and construction took over three years. The godmother for the Groton was the wife of Elliot Richardson , former US Secretary of Defense. In 1978 the submarine was put into service.
The first voyage took the submarine into the Indian Ocean in 1980 and then back home via the Panama Canal, so that the Groton carried out a circumnavigation of the world .
In 1997, after only 19 years of service, the Groton was decommissioned. This saved the US Navy the cost of an otherwise pending renewal of the reactor fuel, and it also saved operating costs. The downsizing of the fleet that went hand in hand with the decommissioning of older boats was caused by geopolitical changes, in particular the end of the Cold War .
The submarine is currently in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard , where it is to be demolished in the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program from 2012 .
Web links
- Groton in the Naval Vessel Register (Engl.)
- Images on navsource.org (Engl.)