USS Jacksonville (on the right) in 2003
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History | |
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United States | |
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] |
Badge | |
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 |
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.
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.