USS Silversides (SSN-679)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Silversides.
USS Silversides (SSN-679), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the silverside, a small fish marked with a silvery stripe along each side of its body.
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USS Silversides (SSN-679), possibly during her sea trials off New England in 1972. | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Silversides |
Namesake | The silverside |
Ordered | 25 June 1968 |
Builder | Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, Connecticut |
Laid down | 13 October 1969 |
Launched | 4 June 1971 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. John H. Chafee |
Commissioned | 5 May 1972 |
Decommissioned | 21 July 1994 |
Stricken | 21 July 1994 |
Motto | Veni Vidi Vici ("I Came, I Saw, I Conquered") |
Fate | Scrapping via Ship and Submarine Recycling Program begun 1 October 2000, completed 1 October 2001 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Sturgeon-class attack submarine |
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Length | 302 ft 3 in (92.13 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
Draft | 28 ft 8 in (8.74 m) |
Installed power | 15,000 shaft horsepower (11.2 megawatts) |
Propulsion | One S5W nuclear reactor, two steam turbines, one screw |
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Test depth | 1,300 feet (396 meters) |
Complement | 109 (14 officers, 95 enlisted men) |
Armament | 4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
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