USS Finback (SSN-670)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Finback.
USS Finback (SSN-670), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the finback, the common whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States.
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Name | USS Finback (SSN-670) |
Namesake | The finback, a whale |
Ordered | 9 March 1965 |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia |
Laid down | 26 June 1967 |
Launched | 7 December 1968 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Charles F. Bird |
Commissioned | 4 February 1970 |
Decommissioned | 28 March 1997 |
Stricken | 28 March 1997 |
Motto | All Good Men |
Honors and awards | Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award for U.S. Atlantic Fleet 1986 |
Fate | Scrapping via Ship and Submarine Recycling Program completed 30 October 1997 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Sturgeon-class attack submarine |
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Length | 292 ft (89 m) |
Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
Draft | 29 ft (8.8 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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