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USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN-709), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, ConnecticutGroton is a town located on the Thames River in New London County, Connecticut. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 39,907. Groton is the home of the Electric Boat Corporation, the major contractor for submarine work for the US Navy, on 10 December 1973 and her keel was laid down on 24 July 1981. 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 27 August 1983 sponsored by the Admiral's wife, Mrs. Elenore Ann Bednowicz Rickover, (whose first name is found in a wide variety of spellings, including Eleanore, Eleonore, and Eleanor) and commissionedThe ceremonies involved in commissioning ships into a military force are based in traditions thousands of years old. Ship naming and launching are the inseparable elements which endow a ship hull with her identity. Yet, just as many developmental mileston on 21 July 1984 with Commander Fredrik Sprutenburg in command.

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On 12 April 2004 Rickover returned from six months on patrol in the North Atlantic in support of the War on Terrorism.

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Based on data from the Naval Vessel Register