USS Salt Lake City (SSN-716)

The Salt Lake City with the tender Frank Cable
Overview
Order	15th September 1977
Keel laying	August 26, 1980
Launch	October 16, 1982
1. Period of service
Commissioning	May 12, 1984
Decommissioning	January 15, 2006
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 Salt Lake City (SSN-716) was a nuclear-powered submarine of the United States Navy and is part of the Los Angeles-class submarine to. It was named after the city of Salt Lake City , Utah .

history

The Salt Lake City was commissioned in 1977 and finally laid down at Newport News Shipbuilding in 1980 . The boat spent 26 months in dry dock, the final equipment and first test drives took another 19 months. The official commissioning took place on May 12, 1984.

In October 1991 the first modernization for Salt Lake City began , which was carried out in the Mare Island Naval Shipyard .

After 20 years in the service of the Navy, Salt Lake City completed its eighth and final mission in October 2004, which it carried out as part of exercise Summer Pulse '04 with the USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) to the port of Yokosuka, among other places , Japan and Apra Harbor on Guam . A year later the boat was officially inactivated in San Diego and dived one last time under the polar cap in the Atlantic, where it is being prepared for decommissioning at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard . The boat is later scrapped in the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard .

Web links

Commons : USS Salt Lake City (SSN-716)  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Salt Lake City is decommissioned on navy.mil (Engl.)