USS Seawolf (SSN-21)
9,137 standard tons
108 meters
12.2 meters
11 meters
12 officers and 121 men
S6W pressurized water reactor, Pumpjetantrieb
> 25 knots
8 x 660 mm torpedo tubes
The USS Seawolf (SSN- 21) is a nuclear submarine of the United States Navy and the lead ship of the Seawolf - class.
History
Construction and testing
The keel laying of the nuclear submarine was on 25 October 1989 at the Electric Boat instead, the launch was delayed due to problems with the steel, first used in June 1995. The ship was of Margaret Dalton, wife of Navy Minister John Howard Dalton, after christened the species Seawolves. Until the 5th of July 1996, the Seawolf conducted its first test drives, the official commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Navy took place one year later. By 2001, further tests were carried out.
Inserts
The first use of the USS Seawolf began in June 2001. Here 65 % of the crew members were ( also 11 of 14 officers ) on their first deployment ride. The boat crossed the Atlantic and was a Scottish Faslane -on- Clyde. However, the terrorist attacks of September 11, ended the stay and the planned maintenance there early. The Seawolf left the base and headed westward, where they met in the middle of the Atlantic with the aircraft carrier battle group led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt ( CVN -71) and ran with this direction Mediterranean. There she again left the group and only took part in a NATO exercise against diesel- electric submarines. Later she met before La Maddalena to the submarine tender USS Emory S. Land (AS -39) to take new food on board, and exchanged torpedoes against cruise missiles, to be ready for a war in Afghanistan. About missions during Operation Enduring Freedom Nothing is known.
On 30 October 2002, the Seawolf for a three-week overhaul returned in the yard of EB. The overhaul was conducted by the U.S. Navy, the shipyard has been leased for that. In the summer of 2003, the Seawolf participated in the NATO exercise Odin -One in the North Sea, an anti-submarine operation. 2006 was operating the boat in the Pacific, moored in Apra Harbor, among others, Guam. 2007, the Seawolf of the Naval Submarine Base New London was transferred to the Naval Base Kitsap. In 2009 she took part on the side of the USS John C. Stennis (CVN -74 ) in exercises with the Japanese Navy.