USS North Carolina (SSN-777)
_commissioning.jpg) North Carolina during the commissioning ceremony |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | September 30, 1998 |
| Keel laying | May 22, 2004 |
| Launch | April 21, 2007 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | May 3, 2008 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
7925 tons submerged |
| length |
115 m |
| width |
10.4 m |
| Draft |
9.5 m |
| crew |
134 |
| drive |
An S9G reactor, nozzle ring propeller |
| speed |
25+ knots |
| Armament |
4 torpedo tubes, 12 vertical missile launch tubes |
The USS North Carolina (SSN-777) is a nuclear-powered submarine of the United States Navy . It belongs to the Virginia class and was named after the US state of North Carolina .
history
SSN-777 was approved by the United States Congress in 1998 as the fourth boat in a four-boat lot . In May 2004 the boat was finally laid down at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News , Virginia . Construction took about three years, and in April 2007 the North Carolina was launched and christened. Godmother was Mrs. Linda Anne Rich Bowman, the wife of four-star Admiral a. D. Frank Bowman , former director of Naval Reactors , the US Navy's division for the construction of marine reactors.
Since the launch, the boat went through the final equipment and then first test drives. According to the original plan, the boat should be delivered to the Navy in December 2007 and put into service at the end of April / beginning of May 2008. However, after problems with welded connections in non-nuclear pipe systems arose in shipyard test drives in December 2007 , this deadline was no longer tenable. In addition to North Carolina , where the problems were discovered, all of its sister ships, three Los Angeles-class submarines , and four aircraft carriers were also affected. Contrary to Navy regulations, workers at Newport News have used several different unapproved filler materials for welds on non-nuclear pipelines.
The delivery to the Navy took place at the end of February 2008, around seven weeks late. The commissioning took place on May 3, 2008 in Wilmington , North Carolina. Nine days later, the submarine reached its temporary base, Naval Submarine Base New London. The North Carolina left the base in July 2010 and reached its new home port, Pearl Harbor in Hawaii , in November 2010 .
Web links
- official website (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Navy Times: Faulty sub welds spur inspection of 4 carriers, 3 more subs ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)
