USS Honolulu (SSN-718)

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 Honolulu ( SSN -718 ) was a nuclear submarine of the United States Navy and was among the Los Angeles - class.

History

The Honolulu in 1977 at Newport News Shipbuilding commissioned in 1981 and placed on the company's yard in Newport News, Virginia on Kiel. Launching and naming ceremony took place in 1983, patron saint of the city of Honolulu, Hawaii. The submarine was made in 1985 with the U.S. Navy in service. The boat was the last boat of the first production batch of the class, all of the following units were equipped with a Vertical Launching System.

The boat was the first boat of this first production batch, which visited the region around the North Pole. 2003 emerged the Honolulu through Arctic ice, and took, among others, water samples for North American universities.

After a total of nine emergency operations in the western Pacific and the Indian Ocean (including 2000 with the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV -63 ) and 2002 with the USS Abraham Lincoln ( CVN -72) ) left the boat its home port Pearl Harbor in May 2006 last time. On a small adoption while speakers included Senator Daniel K. Inouye, her former commander Jonathan W. Greenert and the U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander, Admiral Gary Roughead.

After a patrol and participating in exercise Valiant Shield the Honolulu was shut down for the time being in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard as part of the Ship - Submarine Recycling Program in November 2006. A year later she was then been permanently withdrawn from service and is subsequently decomposed. The bow of Honolulu was thereby removed in one piece and a sister ship, the USS San Francisco ( SSN -711 ), welded, which in 2005 had a high speed rammed a submarine mountain.