USS Tucson (SSN-770)

6300 tons surfaced, 7100 tons submerged

110.3 m

10 m

9.7 m

12 officers, 115 teams

A S6G reactor

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The USS Tucson ( SSN -770 ) is a nuclear submarine of the United States Navy and is part of the Los Angeles- class.

History

The Tucson was in 1988 at Newport News Shipbuilding commissioned and paid to the shipyard of the shipbuilding company, which is part of Northrop Grumman, to Kiel in 1991. After a construction period of two and a half years, the ship was launched in March 1994 from the stack. The boat was christened by Mrs. Diane C. Kent after the city of Tucson in Arizona.

The official commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Navy had been terminated on 18 August 1995. However, since the Hurricane Felix at that time threatened the coast of Virginia, the Navy decided to move their fleet out of the harbor to the open sea. The hurricane turned later from off the coast. The ceremony for the deployment was re-scheduled for September 9, in the register of ships the Navy still August 18th is given as a date.

After a year of service in the Atlantic, the Tucson moved through the Panama Canal to the Pacific after Pearl Harbor. On the way to the U- boat stopped in San Diego, where VIPs and tourists were allowed to visit from the twin city Tucson the boat. Your first front line made ​​the Tucson in 1998, when it was used in the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Southern Watch. In summer 1999, they took off the coast of Chile in the exercise Teamwork South '99 in part, then in 2006 at Valiant Shield. After this exercise, the Tucson was docked in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard and outdated there, the end of 2008, she returned to Pearl. In July 2010, the submarine participated in the USS George Washington ( CVN -73) page along with South Korean forces in the exercise Invincible Spirit part.

In fiction

The Tucson plays a role in Tom Clancy's novel The Legend: It is given the power to destroy China's only Ship Submersible Ballistic Nuclear and accomplishes this task.