| • Science | • People | • Locations | • Timeline |
| Career | |
|---|---|
| Awarded: | 1 August 1975 |
| Laid down: | 17 August 1978 |
| Launched: | 16 August 1980 |
| Commissioned: | 6 March 1982 |
| Fate: | submarine recycling |
| Stricken: | 16 December 1999 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 5732 tons light, 6160 tons full, 428 tons dead |
| Length: | 110.3 meters (362 feet) |
| Beam: | 10 meters (33 feet) |
| Draft: | 9.7 meters (32 feet) |
| Depth: | 1200 feet |
| Propulsion: | one S6G reactor |
| Armament: | four 21-inch torpedo tubes |
| Complement: | 12 officers, 98 men |
| Motto: | Resurgens ("Rise Again") |
USS Atlanta (SSN-712), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the fifth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Atlanta, Georgia. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, VirginiaNewport News is an independent city located in Virginia. It is on the southern end of the Virginia Peninsula, on the north shore of Hampton Roads. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 180,150. The name of Newport News has ever been a on 1 August 1975 and her keel was laid down on 17 August 1978. She was launchedThe ceremonies involved in naming and launching naval ships are based in traditions thousands of years old. A Babylonian narrative dating from the 3rd millennium BC describes the completion of a ship: :Openings to the water I stopped; :I searched for crac on 16 August 1980 sponsored by Mrs. Sam NunnSamuel Augustus Nunn (born September 8, 1938) is co-chairman and chief executive officer of the NTI (Nuclear Threat Initiative), a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. He served as a U, and commissioned on 6 March 1982, with Commander Robin J. White in command.
On 29 April 1986 Atlanta ran aground in the Straits of Gibraltar, damaging her sonar gear and puncturing a ballast tank in the bow section. The boat proceeded to Gibraltar under her own power and was repaired there.
During Atlanta’s brief career, she completed six deployments to the Mediterranean Sea and three deployments to the western Atlantic. She was the first submarine certified to employ the MK-48 torpedo and both Harpoon missiles and Tomahawk missiles. She was also the first nuclear-powered submarine assigned to directly support an Amphibious Ready Group (ARG).
Atlanta was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 16 December 1999. Ex-Atlanta was berthed at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, awaiting entry into the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington.
See USS Atlanta for other ships of the same name.