USS Cincinnati (SSN-693)

6300 tons surfaced, 7100 tons submerged

110.3 m

10 m

9.7 m

12 officers, 115 teams

A S6G reactor

30 nodes

4533 -mm torpedo tubes

The USS Cincinnati (SSN -693 ) was a nuclear submarine of the United States Navy and was among the Los Angeles - class. The boat was named after Cincinnati, Ohio.

History

The contract to build SSN -693, was issued in early 1971 at the Newport News Shipbuilding, in April 1974, the submarine was laid at the shipyard of the Group in Newport News, Virginia on Kiel. After a construction period of almost three years, the boat ran out of stack 1977 and mid-1978 was officially put into service by the Navy.

The boat served in the Atlantic Fleet. 1979 was the boat rescue a Finnish sailor who had fallen from the freighter Finn Beaver. He swam 22 hours in the waters off the coast of Florida.

On a trip use in November 1980, when the Cincinnati drove in the Mediterranean, she was visited for a board of eight Admiral Hyman Rickover and the former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon.

In 1996, after only 18 years of service, the Cincinneti was decommissioned. This saved the U.S. Navy, the cost of a renewal of the reactor fuel that would have been queuing. Currently the submarine is in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, where it should be discontinued from 2009 in the Ship- Submarine Recycling Program.