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USS Seawolf (SSN-21) is a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine and the lead ship of her class. She is the fourth submarine of the United States Navy named for the seawolf , a solitary fish with strong, prominent teeth that give it a savage look.
The Seawolf class is a class of nuclear-powered, fast attack submarines (SSN) in service with the United States Navy. The class was the intended successor to the Los Angeles class, and design work began in 1983. [10] A fleet of 29 submarines was to be built over a ten-year period, but that was reduced to 12 submarines.
Although fully armed, Seawolf, like the first nuclear submarine, Nautilus, was primarily an experimental vessel. Seawolf was originally thought of publicly as a hunter-killer submarine, but in fact was intended to be a one-off test platform for the SIR (aka S2G) LMFR reactor and future sonar platforms. Her future uses, after the reactor plant ...
The USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) was the first ship of its class to enter the U.S. Naval Service in 1970. ... The Seawolf-class of attack submarines entered the Navy in 1997. Nearly 30 orders were ...
Unique submarine; natural circulation S5G reactor: Glenard P. Lipscomb: 1 5 June 1971 21 December 1974 Unique submarine; turbo-electric transmission: Los Angeles: 62 USS Los Angeles (SSN-688) 8 January 1972 USS Cheyenne (SSN-773) 13 September 1996 Seawolf: 3 USS Seawolf (SSN-21) 25 October 1989 USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) 19 February 2005
USS Jimmy Carter is one of only three Seawolf-class subs, but even among that small group it's unique. The US Navy's only operational sub named after a president has been doing top-secret missions ...
Last U.S. Navy submarine to be named after a fish until USS Seawolf (SSN-21). SSN-685 Glenard P. Lipscomb: Unique attack submarine design using turbo-electric transmission. SSN-686 L. Mendel Rivers: SSN-687 Richard B. Russell: SSN-688 Los Angeles: Lead boat of her class of 62. Was active for 34 years, 3 months. SSN-689 Baton Rouge: SSN-690 ...
Undated photo of the USS Seawolf (SS-197) from a government archive. When war with Japan began, the submarine readied for sea and was on her first war patrol from 8–26 December 1941. Seawolf hunted Japanese shipping off San Bernardino Strait. On 14 December, she fired a spread of torpedoes at Sanyo Maru in Port San Vicente.