USS Omaha (SSN-692)

Omaha underway
History
United States
Name	USS Omaha
Namesake	Omaha, Nebraska
Awarded	31 January 1971
Builder	General Dynamics Corporation
Laid down	27 January 1973
Launched	21 February 1976
Commissioned	11 March 1978
Decommissioned	5 October 1995
Stricken	5 October 1995
Fate	Disposed of by submarine recycling
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General characteristics
Class and type	Los Angeles-class submarine
Displacement	5,700 tons light 6,071 tons full 371 tons dead
Length	110.3 m (361 ft 11 in)
Beam	10 m (32 ft 10 in)
Draft	9.7 m (31 ft 10 in)
Propulsion	S6G nuclear reactor, 2 turbines, 35,000 hp (26,000 kW), 1 auxiliary motor 325 hp (242 kW), 1 shaft
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h) surfaced 32 knots (59 km/h) submerged
Test depth	290 m (950 ft)
Complement	12 officers; 98 enlisted
Armament	4 × 21 in (533 mm) bow torpedo tubes

USS Omaha (SSN-692), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Omaha, Nebraska. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 31 January 1971 and her keel was laid down on 27 January 1973. She was launched on 21 February 1976 sponsored by Mrs. Victoria Kuncl Hruska, wife of Senator Roman L. Hruska, and commissioned on 11 March 1978.

Omaha was placed in commission in reserve on 7 February 1995, decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 5 October 1995 and laid up at Bremerton in Washington. She was scheduled to enter the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program on 30 September 2010.^[1] Recycling was completed 30 November 2012.^[2]