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USS Jacksonville
Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the US Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Jacksonville (SSN-699), a nuclear powered Los Angeles-class attack submarine, is the only vessel of the United States Navy to be named for Jacksonville, Florida.
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![]() USS Jacksonville (on the right) in 2003 | |
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Name | USS Jacksonville |
Namesake | City of Jacksonville, Florida |
Ordered | 24 January 1972 |
Builder | General Dynamics Electric Boat |
Laid down | 21 February 1976 |
Launched | 18 November 1978 |
Commissioned | 16 May 1981 |
Decommissioned | 16 November 2021[1] |
Out of service | 1 May 2018 |
Status | Decommissioned[1] |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Los Angeles-class submarine |
Displacement | 5,720 tons light, 6,149 tons full, 429 tons dead |
Length | 110.3 m (362 ft) |
Beam | 10 m (33 ft) |
Draft | 9.7 m (32 ft) |
Propulsion | One S6G reactor |
Complement | 12 officers, 98 men |
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Jacksonville was overhauled and modernized in 1988 and over the career span was involved in four collisions between 1982 and 2013. After completing a final deployment in 2017, ending 36 years of active service, the submarine was decommissioned in 2021.