USS Jacksonville (SSN-699)

The Jacksonville (right) with a sister ship in Norfolk Harbor
Overview
Order	January 24, 1972
Keel laying	February 21, 1976
Launch	November 18, 1978
1. Period of service
Commissioning	May 16, 1981
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 Jacksonville (SSN-699) is a nuclear-powered submarine of the Los Angeles-class submarine . The boat is named after the city of Jacksonville , Florida .

history

period of service

The Jacksonville was commissioned in 1972 and laid down by Electric Boat in 1976. It took 33 months to build and was commissioned by the United States Navy in 1981.

The Jacksonville's first mission began in June 1982 and lasted until December. The ship circled the globe once. In March 1983 the Jacksonville relocated again, this time to the North Atlantic, as well as a year later from May 1984.

In April 1985, Jacksonville began orbiting the world for the second time and ended in December. Subsequent missions took the submarine to the North Atlantic in 1986 and to the Mediterranean in 1987. Following that final voyage, she then docked in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard and began a three year overhaul. The next mission followed in 1993, which again led to the Mediterranean, and in 1994 another to the North Atlantic.

The last three months of 2003 the submarine was in the fight against terrorism, followed by an overhaul in the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 2004 . In 2008 the Jacksonville moved back to the Atlantic for the first time. In 2009 she was transferred from Naval Station Norfolk to Pearl Harbor in the Pacific.

Accidents

As early as 1982, the Jacksonville collided with a Turkish cargo ship, General Z. Dogan , off Virginia , and both ships were slightly damaged. Two years later, again off Virginia, there was a collision with a Navy barge . In 1996, in Chesapeake Bay , the Jacksonville rammed a Saudi cargo ship in thick fog, damaging both ships.

During the overhaul in 2004, a fire broke out on board while the reactor was being refilled, although there was no danger to the reactor.

In January 2013, one of the two Jacksonville periscopes was broken off by a fishing trawler during a persicope voyage in the Persian Gulf . No further damage was discovered on the submarine.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Luis Martinez: Navy Sub Goes Bump in the Night and Loses Its Periscope . In: ABC News , January 10, 2013.

Web links

Commons : USS Jacksonville (SSN-699)  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Jacksonville in the NVR (Engl.)