USS Key West (SSN-722)
.jpg) The Key West off Hawaii |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | August 13, 1981 |
| Keel laying | July 6, 1983 |
| Launch | July 20, 1985 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | September 12, 1987 |
| 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 , 12 VLS tubes |
The USS Key West (SSN-722) is a nuclear-powered submarine of the United States Navy and is part of the Los Angeles-class submarine to. It is named after the city of Key West in Florida .
history
The order for the Key West was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding in 1981 , where the keel of the boat was laid in July 1983. After a construction period of two years, the boat was launched and commissioned with the United States Navy on September 12, 1987. Home port was Norfolk , Virginia .
After tests and certifications, the boat was first relocated to the East Atlantic in 1989, and then to the Mediterranean in 1990. In the following years the Key West took part in mission trips in the Atlantic and the Caribbean. In 1995 she took part in conflict resolution in Yugoslavia , while she was part of the combat group around the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) . Later the Key West sailed through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea into the Arabian Gulf.
In 1996 the boat left its home port and was assigned to the Pacific Fleet, Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was its new home port . The first relocation from Hawaii began in April 1997 when the Key West sailed with the USS Constellation (CV-64) to the western Pacific, the Indic and the Persian Gulf. In the spring of 1998, the boat took part in tests with the carriers USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) , then in the summer in exercise RIMPAC 98 . The boat spent the remainder of the year training with the Korean Navy.
The Key West was also part of RIMPAC in 2006 , in 2007 it drove off the coast of Guam as part of the Valiant Shield exercise , and then again in 2008 with RIMPAC off Hawaii. In 2009, the submarine took part in an exercise with the navies of Japan and Australia.
Web links
- Entry in the Naval Vessel Register (Engl.)
- Official homepage ( Memento of October 15, 2004 in the Internet Archive )