USS Salt Lake City (SSN-716)

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 Salt Lake City (SSN -716 ) was a nuclear submarine of the United States Navy and is part of the Los Angeles- class. It was named after the city of Salt Lake City in Utah.

History

The Salt Lake City in 1977 commissioned and finally placed in 1980 at Newport News Shipbuilding in Kiel. In dry dock the boat spent 26 months, the final finishing and first test drives took a further 19 months. On 12 May 1984 the official commissioning ceremony was held.

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

After 20 years service to the Navy Salt Lake City completed in October 2004, its eighth and final betting ride that they in the exercise Summer Pulse '04 with the USS John C. Stennis (CVN -74 ), among others, in the port of Yokosuka, Japan and Apra Harbor led to Guam. A year later the boat in San Diego was officially inactivated and appeared one last time under the polar ice cap in the Atlantic, where it is prepared in the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on the decommissioning. Later the boat in the Ship- Submarine Recycling Program is scrapped in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.