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On 22 July 2007, Seawolf transferred from her previous homeport of Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut, to Naval Base Kitsap, Washington. [7] Seawolf leads USS John C. Stennis and the Japanese destroyer JS Ōnami during an exercise in 2009. In 2015, Seawolf was deployed to the Arctic region for six months. [9] [10] [11]
Description: 090212-N-6538W-029 PACIFIC OCEAN The Seawolf-class submarine USS Seawolf (SSN 21), leads the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer JS Oonami (DD 111), left, and the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) after a successful undersea warfare exercise involving the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and other naval ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...