![]() USS Connecticut departing Puget Sound, 2016
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Name | USS Connecticut |
Namesake | The U.S. State of Connecticut |
Ordered | 3 May 1991 |
Builder | General Dynamics Electric Boat |
Laid down | 14 September 1992 |
Launched | 1 September 1997 |
Commissioned | 11 December 1998 |
Homeport | Kitsap Naval Base, Bremerton, Washington |
Motto | "Arsenal of the Nation" |
Status | in active service |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Seawolf-class submarine |
Displacement | 7,568 tons light, 9,137 tons full, 1,569 tons dead |
Length | 107.5 meters (353 feet) overall, 107.5 meters (353 feet) waterline |
Beam | 12.1 meters (40 feet) |
Draft | 10.9 meters (36 feet) |
Propulsion | |
Complement | 15 officers, 101 men |
Armament | 8 × 26.5 inch torpedo tubes, sleeved for 21 inch weapons[4] (up to 50 Tomahawk land attack missile/Harpoon anti-ship missile/Mk 48 guided torpedo carried in torpedo room)[5] |
USS Connecticut (SSN-22) is a Seawolf-class nuclear powered fast attack submarine operated by the United States Navy. Connecticut is the fifth active United States Ship to be named for the U.S. state of Connecticut, going back to 1776. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut, on 3 May 1991 and her keel was laid down on 14 September 1992. She was launched on 1 September 1997, sponsored by Patricia L. Rowland, wife of the Governor of Connecticut, John G. Rowland, and commissioned on 11 December 1998.