Jimmy Carter returns to NSB Kitsap, 2017
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Jimmy Carter's profile
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Jimmy Carter |
Namesake | Jimmy Carter |
Ordered | 29 June 1996 |
Builder | General Dynamics Electric Boat |
Laid down | 5 December 1998 |
Launched | 13 May 2004 |
Christened | 5 June 2004 |
Commissioned | 19 February 2005 |
Homeport | Bangor Annex of Naval Base Kitsap, Washington |
Motto | Semper Optima ("Always the Best") |
Status | in active service |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Modified Seawolf-class submarine |
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Beam | 12.1 m (39.7 ft) |
Draft | 10.9 m (35.8 ft) |
Propulsion | |
Speed | greater than 25 knots (46 km/h)[4] |
Complement | 15 officers, 126 enlisted |
Armament | 8 × 26.5 inch torpedo tubes, sleeved for 21 inch weapons[5] (up to 50 Tomahawk land attack missile/Harpoon anti-ship missile/Mk 48 guided torpedo carried in torpedo room)[6] |
USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) is the third and final Seawolf-class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine in the United States Navy. Commissioned in 2005, she is named for the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, the only president to have qualified on submarines.[7] The only submarine to be named for a living president, Jimmy Carter is also one of the few vessels, and only the third submarine of the US Navy, to be named for a living person. Extensively modified from the original design of her class, she is sometimes described as a subclass unto herself.[citation needed]