USS Jacksonville (SSN-699)

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 Jacksonville ( SSN -699 ) is a nuclear submarine of the Los Angeles-class. The boat is named after the city of Jacksonville, Florida.

History

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The Jacksonville in 1972 commissioned and placed at Electric Boat in 1976 at Kiel. The construction took 33 months to complete, was commissioned into the United States Navy then followed in 1981.

The first mission trip of Jacksonville began in June 1982 and lasted until December. The ship once circled the globe here. Already in March 1983 moved the Jacksonville again, this time in the North Atlantic, as well as a year later in May 1984.

In April 1985, the second Weltumkreisung of Jacksonville, which ended in December began. Subsequent missions led the U- boat in 1986 in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean in 1987. Following this last trip they then docked into the Norfolk Naval Shipyard and began a three-year overhaul. In 1993, the next insert, which in turn led to the Mediterranean, in 1994, another in the North Atlantic.

The last three months of 2003 was the U- boat in the fight against terrorism on the road, in 2004 was followed by an overhaul in the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. In 2008, the Jacksonville moved the first time in the Atlantic. In 2009 she was transferred from Naval Station Norfolk to Pearl Harbor in the Pacific.

Accidents

Already in 1982 the Jacksonville collided of Virginia with a Turkish cargo ship, the General Z. Dogan, both ships were slightly damaged. Two years later, again in front of Virginia, found a collision with a barge instead of the Navy. 1996 in the Chesapeake Bay, rammed the Jacksonville in thick fog a Saudi Arabian cargo ship, both ships take damage.

During the overhaul, in December of 2004 during the refilling of the reactor, a fire on board the ship, but where there was no danger for the reactor.

In January 2013, the Jacksonville collided at a Periskopfahrt with a fishing boat in the Strait of Hormuz. Here, a periscope of the submarine broke off the fishing boat, however, remained intact and continued with his journey continues to have noticed seemingly without collision.