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 25 June 1968 Builder General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut Sponsored by Mrs. Arthur R. Gralla Laid down 9 February 1970 Launched 9 October 1971 Commissioned 1 September 1972 Decommissioned 17 March 1999 Struck  17 March 1999 Fate: Scrapping via Ship and Submarine Recycling Program completed 22 November 2002 | Class & type: Sturgeon-class submarine  Speed and Depth: You can find speed and depth numbers on Wiki or other websites, but if we told you, we would have to kill you so we will not verify or deny anything you might find on other sites. Displacement: 4,195 long tons (4,262 t) light, 4,501 long tons (4,573 t) full, 306 long tons (311 t) dead Length: 302 ft 3 in (92.13 m) Beam: 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) Draft: 28 ft 8 in (8.74 m) Installed power: 15,000 shaft horsepower (11.2 megawatts) Propulsion: One S5W nuclear reactor with S3G3 modified core, two steam turbines, one screw Complement: 112 (14 officers, 98 enlisted men) Armament: 4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes. |