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USS Florida (SSGN-728)
Submarine of the United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For USS Floridian, see USS Floridian (ID-3875).
For other ships with the same name, see USS Florida.
USS Florida (SSBN-728/SSGN-728), an Ohio-class cruise missile submarine, is the sixth vessel of the United States Navy to be named for the U.S. state of Florida. She was commissioned with the hull designation of SSBN-728; with her conversion to a cruise missile submarine, from a ballistic missile submarine, she was re-designated SSGN-728.
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Namesake | U.S. state of Florida |
Ordered | 28 February 1975 |
Builder | General Dynamics Electric Boat |
Laid down | 4 July 1976 |
Launched | 14 November 1981 |
Commissioned | 18 June 1983 |
Homeport | Kings Bay, Georgia |
Motto | |
Status | in active service |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Ohio-class submarine |
Displacement | |
Length | 560 ft (170 m) |
Beam | 42 ft (13 m)[1] |
Draft | 38 ft (12 m) |
Propulsion | |
Speed | Greater than 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)[5] |
Test depth | Greater than 800 feet (240 m)[5] |
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