USS Baton Rouge (SSN-689)

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 Baton Rouge ( SSN -689 ) was a nuclear submarine of the United States Navy and was among the Los Angeles - class. It is named after the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

History

The Baton Rouge ran on 26 April 1975 of the Newport News Shipbuilding stack, it was the United States Navy passed on 25 June 1977. In 1978, the six-month post- shakedown shipyard laytime was held at NNS. End of the year the submarine left the U.S. Coast and moved to the Mediterranean, where they docked in La Maddalena on November 1. 1979 took the Baton Rouge at the NATO exercise Operation Ocean Safari in the North Sea part.

Collision

On February 11, 1992, Baton Rouge was on a patrol off the island Kildin near Severomorsk on the Kola Peninsula. There she came in dipped state with the Russian submarine B -276 Sierra class together. The B -276 was introduced from below on the Baton Rouge. Boris Yeltsin complained then publicly about the operations of the U.S. Navy near the Russian territorial waters and the Navy was for the first time ever to the public that a collision had taken place.

Decommissioning

Less than two years later was decommissioned the Baton Rouge as the first of the Los Angeles- boats. The ship was only just over 17 years, provided for in service were originally up to 30 years. The now ex - Baton Rouge hot end ship was broken up 30 September 1997 in the Ship- Submarine Recycling Program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.