USS Memphis (SSN-691)

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 Memphis ( SSN -691 ) was a nuclear submarine of the United States Navy. It was named after the city of Memphis, Tennessee and was the fourth boat in the Los Angeles-class.

History

SSN -691 was given in 1971 in order and mid-1973 was laid at Newport News Shipbuilding in Kiel. After a construction period of almost three years, followed by the final outfitting and sea trials, which took a total of around one and a half years, so that Memphis could be put into service in late 1977.

On 12 July 1979, when the boat was in the Naval Station Norfolk, broke while reloading torpedoes a holding chain of the loading crane, causing the torpedo several feet fell on the Memphis and tilted in the hatch. The weapon of the type Mark 48 had no ignition device in an explosion the boat but could be sunk. After two days to remove the torpedo succeeded.

1988 ordered Chief of Naval Operations Carlisle Trost at a Los Angeles-class boat as a pilot boat for new hull materials and select another. In 1988 it was decided to convert the Memphis. In mid-1990 began upgrading, made ​​the U- boat about 50 tons heavier. The findings were incorporated into the development of the Seawolf and Virginia class. As of January 1994, the boat underwent in the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard another overhaul. In addition to a refilling of the reactor to 1996 prototypes were also built of fire control and sonar systems.

2006, Memphis was used in the Persian Gulf. In 2010 she participated in the UNITAS maneuvers. On 1 April 2011 the submarine was decommissioned and is now to be dismantled as part of the Ship - Submarine Recycling Program.