USS Maine (SSBN-741)
.jpg) Maine off Puerto Rico |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | 5th October 1988 |
| Keel laying | 3rd July 1990 |
| Launch | July 16, 1994 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | July 29, 1995 |
| 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 |
24 ICBMs, 4 torpedo tubes |
The USS Maine (SSBN-741) is a nuclear-powered submarine of the United States Navy and belongs Ohio class at. As a Ship Submersible Ballistic Nuclear , it carries 24 ICBMs .
history
SSBN-741 was commissioned in 1988 and laid down at Electric Boat in Groton , Connecticut in July 1990 . The construction of the submarine took around four years, in July 1994 it was launched and was christened after the US state of Maine . Another year later, after the final equipment and the shipyard test drives, the Maine was put into service with the US Navy.
The submarine is stationed in Washington State , on the Pacific coast.
In fiction
In Tom Clancy's novel " The Echo of All Fear ", the Maine is sunk by a Russian Akula-class submarine.
Web links
- Official homepage ( Memento of July 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Images on navsource.org (Engl.)