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US Navy - Attack Submarine

SSN 720 - USS Pittsburgh

 

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

Builder: General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut, USA

   

STATUS:

Awarded: April 16, 1979

Laid down: April 15, 1983

Launched: December 8, 1984

Commissioned: November 23, 1985

IN SERVICE (2015)

   

Homeport: Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut

Namesake: City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ships Motto: HEART OF STEEL

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

 

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Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - February 2013

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in dry dock - Groton, Connecticut - September 2012

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Groton, Connecticut - June 2012

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Arabian Sea - April 2012


Arabian Sea - April 2012


Arabian Sea - April 2012


Arabian Sea - April 2012

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Kings Bay, Georgia - March 2011


Kings Bay, Georgia - March 2011

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Groton, Connecticut - October 2010


Groton, Connecticut - October 2010

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Groton, Connecticut - October 2010


Groton, Connecticut - February 2009

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Port Everglades, Florida - May 2008

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Port Everglades, Florida - April 2008


Port Everglades, Florida - April 2008


Port Everglades, Florida - April 2008


Port Everglades, Florida - April 2008


1991

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As seen through the submarine's periscope, a UGM-109 Tomahawk land attack missile (TLAM) targeted on an Iraqi position rises into the sky
after being fired from a vertical launch tube aboard USS PITTSBURGH (SSN 720) during Operation Desert Storm - 1991

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commissioning ceremony - November 1985

ssn-720 uss pittsburgh commissioning 1985
commissioning ceremony - November 1985


commissioning ceremony - November 1985


commissioning ceremony - November 1985


commissioning ceremony - November 1985


commissioning ceremony - November 1985


 

 

USS Pittsburgh (SSN 720):

The fourth Pittsburgh (SSN-720) was laid down on 15 April 1983 at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Conn.; launched on 8 December 1984; sponsored by Dr. Carol H. Sawyer, wife of Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Shipbuilding and Logistics) George A. Sawyer; and commissioned on 23 November 1985, Cmdr. Raymond H. Setser in command.

Pittsburgh, Cmdr. Charles H. Griffiths Jr. in command, deployed (8 November 1990 - 28 February 1991) for Operation Desert Storm - the liberation of the Kuwaitis from the Iraqis - and she fired UGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAMs) against Iraqi military targets.

Pittsburgh, Cmdr. Jeffrey S. Currer in command, deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom I (1 October 2002 - 27 April 2003) and on 21 and 22 March she joined 29 other U.S. and British ships and submarines that fired TLAMs against Iraqi military targets. Currer later received the Bronze Star for his “extraordinary leadership and operational skills” during these battles.

 

 

 

patches

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