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US Navy - Attack Submarine

SSN 695 - USS Birmingham

 

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Type, class: Attack Submarine, nuclear propulsion - SSN; Los Angeles class (Flight I)

Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock, Newport News, Virginia, USA

   

STATUS:

Awarded: January 24, 1972

Laid down: April 26, 1975

Launched: October 29, 1977

Commissioned: December 16, 1978

Decommissioned: December 22, 1997

Fate: submarine recycling

   

Homeport: -

Namesake: City of Birmingham, Alabama

Ships Motto: -

Technical Data: see: INFO > Los Angeles class Attack Submarine - SSN

 

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 left, with other Los Angeles class SSN's - 1984

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USS Birmingham (SSN 695):

 

 

 

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