USS Groton (SSN-694)

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 Groton ( SSN- 694 ) was a nuclear submarine of the United States Navy and was among the Los Angeles - class. The boat was named after Groton, Connecticut.

History

The contract to build SSN- 694, was issued in early 1971 at the Electric Boat, a shipyard from the General Dynamics Corporation. Two years later, the keel was laid, the construction lasted over three years. Godmother for Groton was the wife of Elliot Richardson, former Secretary of Defense. In 1978 the commissioning of the submarine.

The first drive took the submarine in 1980 in the Indian Ocean and then back home, so that the Groton performed a circumnavigation via the Panama Canal.

In 1997, after only 19 years of service, the Groton was decommissioned. This saved the U.S. Navy, the cost of an otherwise imminent renewal of the reactor fuel, as well as the operating costs were saved. The associated with the decommissioning of older boats fleet reduction was by geopolitical changes, including the end of the Cold War caused.

Currently the submarine is in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, where it should be discontinued from 2012 in the Ship- Submarine Recycling Program.