USS Portsmouth (SSN-707)
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 Portsmouth (SSN -707 ) was a nuclear submarine of the United States Navy and was among the Los Angeles - class.
History
Construction
The Portsmouth was built at Electric Boat in Groton, Connecticut and Helen Poe Goodrich according to the same towns in New Hampshire and Virginia named.
Inserts
Just three weeks after commissioning with the U.S. Navy already participated in the U.S. invasion of Grenada. Only then, from August 1984, the Portsmouth went through a 14 -week trial period and moved into her new home port in San Diego. From there, the submarine participated in six emergency operations in the Western Pacific ( WestPac ).
In February 1991, the Portsmouth an overhaul of its weapons systems and the drive underwent. The next assignment was in 1993 again from San Diego instead of, among other things, tried the ship in a so-called Joint Exercise the use of Army Rangers from submarines from sonar systems as well as novel.
1995 and 1996 took part in Portsmouth with the aircraft carrier battle group led by the USS Nimitz (CVN -68 ) on the security of the Republic of China after the People's Republic of China had carried out a missile test in the Formosastraße. In 1997 she becomes the first American warship by a friendly visit in the harbor of the reunified with China, Hong Kong.
Your last bet drove the Portsmouth end of 2003 to February 2004, where she participated in the exercise Exercise Northern Edge in the Gulf of Alaska.
Officially, the Portsmouth September 10, 2004 was decommissioned. This happened after 21 years of use and only half of the intended use period. The reasons for this are to be sought in the fact that the ship belongs to the first contract section of their class and therefore ( due to the lack of a Vertical Launching System ) has only a limited capacity for land attacks. In addition, the nuclear fuel of the ship would have to be replaced, these costs could circumvent the Navy by the decommissioning. The now ex -Portsmouth -called ship waits for the start of the Ship - Submarine Recycling Program, planned is the start of dismantling 2011.