USS Honolulu (SSN-718)
.jpg) The Honolulu at Pearl Harbor |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | 15th September 1977 |
| Keel laying | November 10, 1981 |
| Launch | September 24, 1983 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | July 6, 1985 |
| Decommissioning | November 2, 2007 |
| Whereabouts | Will be scrapped |
| 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 Honolulu (SSN-718) was a nuclear-powered submarine of the United States Navy and belonged to the Los Angeles-class submarine to.
history
The Honolulu was commissioned from Newport News Shipbuilding in 1977 and keeled at the company's shipyard in Newport News , Virginia in 1981 . Launching and christening of the ship took place in 1983, the namesake is the city of Honolulu in Hawaii . The submarine entered service with the US Navy in 1985. The boat was the last boat of the first batch of the class, all subsequent units were equipped with a vertical launching system .
The boat was the first boat of this first lot to visit the North Pole region. In 2003 the Honolulu emerged through arctic ice and took water samples for North American universities, among other things.
After a total of nine trips to the western Pacific and the Indic (including 2000 with the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) and 2002 with the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) ) the boat left its home port of Pearl Harbor in May 2006 last time. On a small farewell, Senator Daniel K. Inouye , her former commander Jonathan W. Greenert and the US Pacific Fleet Commander, Admiral Gary Roughead, spoke .
After a patrol trip and participation in exercise Valiant Shield , the Honolulu was temporarily decommissioned in November 2006 in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard as part of the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program . A year later it was finally decommissioned and will then be dismantled. The bow of the Honolulu was cut off in one piece and welded to a sister ship, the USS San Francisco (SSN-711) , which had rammed an undersea mountain at high speed in 2005.
