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Career
Awarded: 31 January 1971
Laid down: 27 January 1973
Launched: 21 February 1976
Commissioned: 11 March 1978
Fate: submarine recycling
Stricken: 5 October 1995
General Characteristics
Displacement: 5700 tons light, 6071 tons full, 371 tons dead
Length: 110.3 meters (362 feet)
Beam: 10 meters (33 feet)
Draft: 9.7 meters (32 feet)
Propulsion: one S6G reactor
Complement: 12 officers, 98 men

USS Omaha (SSN-692), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Omaha, Nebraska. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General DynamicsGeneral Dynamics is a defense conglomerate formed by mergers and divestitures. It has changed markedly in the post- Cold War era of defense consolidation. Nicholas D. Chabraja is the CEO. Product lines as of 2002 Aerospace business aircraft Combat Systems 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 31 January 1971 and her keel was laid down on 27 January 1973. 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 21 February 1976 sponsored by Mrs. Roman L. Hruska, and commissioned on 11 March 1978, with Commander Ted A. Hamilton in command.

17 years of history go here

Omaha was placed in commission in reserve on 7 February 1995, decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 5 October 1995 and laid up at Bremerton in Washington. She is scheduled to enter the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program on 1 October 2007.

See USS Omaha for other ships of the same name.



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