Dallas carrying a Dry Deck Shelter in 2004.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Dallas |
Namesake | Dallas, Texas |
Awarded | 31 January 1973 |
Builder | General Dynamics Corporation |
Laid down | 9 October 1976 |
Launched | 28 April 1979 |
Commissioned | 18 July 1981 |
Decommissioned | 4 April 2018[1] |
Out of service | 22 May 2017 |
Stricken | 4 April 2018 |
Homeport | Groton, Connecticut |
Motto | First in Harm's Way |
Nickname(s) | Big D |
Status | Stricken, pending final disposal |
Badge | |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Los Angeles-class submarine |
Displacement | 6,900 tons |
Length | 110.3 m (361 ft 11 in) |
Beam | 10 m (32 ft 10 in) |
Draft | 9.4 m (30 ft 10 in) |
Propulsion | S6G nuclear reactor |
Complement | 127 |
Armament | 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
USS Dallas (SSN-700) is a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the United States Navy. She was the Navy's second vessel of that name, and the first to be named after the city of Dallas, Texas. The first Dallas, a destroyer, was named for 19th century US Naval officer Captain Alexander Dallas. Another two ships with the name were scheduled but never completed. On 4 April 2018, after nearly 37 years of commissioned service, the boat was decommissioned at the Controlled Industrial Area of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. The defueled vessel will eventually undergo recycling.[1][2]