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Career
Awarded:	21 March 1986
Laid down:	9 July 1991
Launched:	12 December 1992
Commissioned:	8 January 1994
Status:	Active in service as of 2007
Homeport:	Pearl Harbor
General characteristics
Displacement:	6000 tons light, 6927 tons full, 927 tons dead
Length:	110.3 meters (362 feet)
Beam:	10 meters (33 feet)
Draft:	9.4 meters (31 feet)
Propulsion:	one S6G reactor
Complement:	12 officers, 98 men

USS Santa Fe (SSN-763), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Santa Fe, New Mexico. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 21 March 1986 and her keel was laid down on 9 July 1991. She was launched on 12 December 1992 sponsored by Mrs. Joy Johnson, and commissioned on 8 January 1994, with Commander Rodger P. Krull in command and LT Todd Foust as the Communications officer. The current Captain of the Santa Fe is Commander Vernon Parks who assumed command from Commander J. Stephen Perry in January of 2007.

The Santa Fe deployed for another Western Pacific deployment in September of 2003 to March of 2004. For this deployment she paricipated in ANNUALEX '03 with the Japanese Maritime Defense Force. The ship made portcalls in Singapore, Guam, multiple times in Sasebo, Japan, and in Yokosuka, Japan in which she rode out a typhoon while in port. The Santa Fe was awarded the Navy Unit Commendation, the second highest award given to a submarine, for actions completed on this deployment. She underwent a three month Interim Drydocking in October of 2004. After the ship completed sea trials and other various workups she then completed a two month Eastern Pacific Deployment that started in May of 2005. After returning back to her homeport of Pearl Harbor in June of 2005, she again deployed to the Western Pacific on August 9, 2005. During this deployment she participated in Exercise Malabar with the Indian Navy. The Santa Fe was only the second U.S. nuclear submarine to participate in the exercise and also to port in Goa, India. After Malabar the ship made a brief stop in Phuket, Thailand. It was the first U.S. submarine to do so since 2001. The ship returned to Pearl Harbor in February 2006. She made the transit to the East Coast in July 2006, surfacing near the North Pole on the way.

The USS Santa Fe is currently undergoing repairs in drydock at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery , Maine.^{[citation needed]}

In 2001 she won the Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award.

In 2005 she was awarded the Naval Unit Commendation which is the second highest award that can be given to a Naval vessel.

In 2006 she was awarded a Meritorius Unit Commendation.

See USS Santa Fe for other ships of the same name.

• USS Santa Fe official website

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