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Diagram of Jimmy Carter, showing added features USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) is the third and final Seawolf -class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine in the United States Navy . Commissioned in 2005, she is named for the 39th president of the United States , Jimmy Carter , the only president to have qualified on submarines. [ 7 ]
The 7-year 9-month time period from keel laying to commissioning is the longest for a submarine in the U.S. Navy. Adding support personnel as well as ship's crew, there are 140 personnel assigned or attached to Seawolf .
USS Dolphin (AGSS-555) was a United States Navy diesel-electric deep-diving research and development submarine. She was commissioned in 1968 and decommissioned in 2007. Her 38-year career was the longest in history for a US Navy submarine to that point. She was the Navy's last operational conventionally powered submarine. [2]
On 22 March 1986, three miles south of Midway Island, harbor tug USS Secota (YTM-415) had just completed a personnel transfer from Georgia, picking up a submarine crewman who was going on emergency leave, when Secota lost power and got hung up on Georgia ' s starboard stern plane while the sub's propeller continued to turn. [7]
Aft view of USS Growler (SSG-577). Growler was laid down on 15 February 1955 by the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard of Kittery, Maine.She was launched on 5 April 1958 sponsored by Mrs. Robert K. Byerts, widow of Commander Thomas B. Oakley, Jr. Growler commissioned at Portsmouth on 30 August 1958 with Lieutenant Commander Charles Priest, Jr., in command.
USS California (SSN-781), is the eighth Virginia-class submarine, and the seventh United States Navy ship named for the state of California.The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding (then called Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.) in Newport News, Virginia, on 14 August 2003.
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USS Frank Cable (AS-40) at her home port of Apra Harbor, Guam in May 2002.. USS Frank Cable was designed as a submarine tender for Los Angeles-class submarines.The ship spent 1980 until 1996 as the repair ship for SUBRON 4 and 18 in Charleston, South Carolina, tending Sturgeon and Benjamin Franklin-class submarines.