USS Louisville (SSN-724)
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| Career |
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| Awarded: | 11 February 1982 |
| Laid down: | 24 September 1984 |
| Launched: | 14 December 1985 |
| Commissioned: | 8 November 1986 |
| Fate: | Active, in commission |
| Homeport: | Pearl Harbor |
| General Characteristics |
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| Displacement: | 5789 tons light, 6185 tons full, 396 tons dead |
| Length: | 110.3 meters (362 feet) |
| Beam: | 10 meters (33 feet) |
| Draft: | 9.4 meters (31 feet) |
| Complement: | 12 officers, 98 men |
| Armament: | 12 VLS Tomahawk missiles, four 21-inch torpedo tubes |
USS Louisville (SSN-724), a
Los Angeles-class submarine, was the fourth ship of the
United States Navy to be named for
Louisville, Kentucky. The contract to build her was awarded to the
Electric Boat Division of
General Dynamics Corporation in
Groton, Connecticut on
11 February 1982 and her keel was laid down on
24 September 1984. She was
launched on
14 December 1985 and
commissioned on
8 November 1986.
- four years of history missing
In January and February
1991, as
Operation Desert Storm began,
Louisville carried out the first war patrol conducted by an American
submarine since
World War II. The patrol began with a 14,000-mile
submerged, high-speed transit across the
Pacific Ocean and
Indian Ocean to the
Red Sea. Shortly after noon on
19 January,
she launched Tomahawk cruise missiles against targets in
Iraq,
becoming the first submarine to launch Tomahawks in combat. For this war
patrol,
Louisville was awarded the
Navy Unit Commendation.
- 13 years of history missing
See
USS Louisville for other ships of the same name.
