Related Directory Categories
- USS Maine (4)
Sources
open directory project
Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.
Submit a site - Become an editor
Wikipedia. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Are you an expert in this subject? Join the discussion and share your knowledge at Wikipedia.org.
USS Maine (SSBN-741)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 USS Maine (SSBN-741) |
|
| Career (US) |  |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | 5 October 1988 |
| Laid down: | 3 July 1990 |
| Launched: | 16 July 1994 |
| Commissioned: | 29 July 1995 |
| Status: | Active in service as of 2007 |
| Homeport: | Bangor, Washington |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | Surfaced: approx. 16,765 tons Submerged: approx. 18,750 tons |
| Length: | 170.69 meters (560 feet) |
| Beam: | 12.8 meters (42 feet) |
| Draught: | 11.5 meters (38 feet) |
| Propulsion: | 1 × S8G reactor |
| Speed: | 20+ knots (37+ km/h) |
| Complement: | 13 officers, 140 men |
| Armament: | MK-48 Torpedoes 24 × Trident II D-5 Ballistic Missiles |
| Motto: | Leadership, Peace, Vigilance |
USS Maine (SSBN-741), an Ohio-class Trident ballistic missile nuclear submarine, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy authorized (the third commissioned) to be named in honor of the state of Maine.
The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics, Groton, Connecticut, on 5 October 1988, and construction began on 3 July 1990. Maine was launched on 16 July 1994, delivered to the Navy on 23 June 1995, and commissioned on 29 July 1995.
Maine is homeported in Naval Base Kitsap Silverdale, Washington.
- Maine played a part in Tom Clancy's techno-thriller The Sum of All Fears. At the end, as DEFCON 1 is rescinded, Maine is destroyed by the fictional Soviet submarine Admiral Lunin.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
|
|
|
|---|---|
| SSGN 726 Class | Ohio | Michigan | Florida | Georgia |
| SSBN 726 Class | Henry M. Jackson | Alabama | Alaska | Nevada | Tennessee | Pennsylvania | West Virginia | Kentucky | Maryland | Nebraska | Rhode Island | Maine | Wyoming | Louisiana |
| List of submarines of the United States Navy | List of submarine classes of the United States Navy | |