USS Albany (SSN-753)

6300 tons surfaced, 7100 tons submerged

110.3 m

10 m

9.7 m

12 officers, 115 teams

A S6G reactor

30 nodes

The USS Albany ( SSN -753 ) is a nuclear submarine of the United States Navy and is part of the Los Angeles- class. It is named after the town of Albany in New York.

History

The contract to build SSN- 753, was issued in 1983 at Newport News Shipbuilding. In 1985 the boat was put on Kiel, 1987 Launched made ​​and christening. Godmother was Nancy M. Kissinger, the wife of Henry Kissinger. On 7 April 1990, the Albany was finally officially in service. The boat was the last submarine of the U.S. Navy, which was built in the traditional manner of Kiel and thus also the last one is really gone from the stack, instead as do newer boats to float.

2004 drove the Albany in the Gulf of Oman, where she has participated in a multinational anti-submarine exercise. 2006 was followed by an exercise in the Gulf of Guinea and the fight against drug trafficking in the Caribbean. In early 2008 moved the U- boat to the side of the USS Nassau ( LHA -4) for seven months in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. In part, it acts independently from the group and visited ports in France, Italy and Norway.