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US Navy - Attack Submarine SSN 786 - USS Illinois |
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Type,
class: Attack Submarine, nuclear propulsion - SSN;
Virginia class (Block III) Builder: General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB), Groton, Connecticut, USA STATUS: Awarded: December 22, 2008 Laid down: June 2, 2014 Launched: August 8, 2015 Christened: October 10, 2015 Commissioned: October 29, 2016 IN SERVICE Homeport: Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii Namesake: State of Illinois Ships Motto: NEMO MAGIS FORTITER (none more brave) Technical Data: see: INFO > Virginia class Attack Submarine - SSN |
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 returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - September 2021  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - September 2021  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - March 2021  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - March 2021  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - March 2021  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - September 2020  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - July 2020  change of command ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - November 2019  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - March 2019  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - March 2019  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - March 2019  arriving at her new jomeport, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, after a homeport shift - November 22, 2017  cutout - mast and antenna details  arriving at her new jomeport, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, after a homeport shift - November 22, 2017  First Lady Michelle Obama (boats sponsor) announces "Bring the Ship to Life" spurring its crew members to race across the brow and fall in formation aboard USS Illinois (SSN 786) during the commissioning ceremony on Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - October 29, 2016  commissioning preparations at Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - October 2016  commissioning preparations at Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - October 2016  Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - October 2016  Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - October 2016  Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - August 2016  Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - August 2016  sea trials - August 2016  sea trials - August 2016  christening ceremony at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut - October 10, 2015  float-off begins - August 7, 2015  awaiting launch   roll out at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut - July 24, 2015  roll out at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut - July 24, 2015  roll out at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut - July 24, 2015  roll out at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut - July 24, 2015  preparing for roll out at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut - July 2015  pressure hull complete - December 2014  bow and stern section connected - November 2014  First Lady Michelle Obama (boats sponsor) at the keel laying ceremony at General Dynamics Electric Boat Quonset Point facility, North Kingstown, Rhode Island - June 2, 2014  US Navy graphic |
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USS Illinois (SSN 786): USS Illinois (SSN 786) is a Virginia-class nuclear powered attack submarine in the United States Navy. Named for the State of Illinois, she is the third vessel to actively serve with the name, the previous two being battleships BB-7 and BB-65. She was built by the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics, the third of their Block III variants which feature a revised bow and technology from the converted sub-class of Ohio guided missile submarines (SSGN).[10] The contract for the build was awarded on 22 December 2008 to Huntington Ingalls Industries in partnership with Electric Boat, and construction commenced with the keel laying ceremony on 2 June 2014, at their yard in Groton, Connecticut. First Lady Michelle Obama served as the ship's sponsor, and christened the boat on 10 October 2015. Illinois was launched on 8 August 2015 and completed sea trials on 2 August 2016. She was delivered to the Navy on 27 August 2016 and commissioned in a ceremony at Naval Submarine Base New London on 29 October 2016. Then-First Lady Michelle Obama, as the sponsor, attended the ceremony and is considered to be an honorary member of the crew due to her support of military families and her involvement with the Illinois crew and their families. |
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Illinois ... is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It has the fifth largest gross domestic product (GDP), the sixth largest population, and the 25th largest land area of all U.S. states. Illinois has been noted as a microcosm of the entire United States. With Chicago in northeastern Illinois, small industrial cities and immense agricultural productivity in the north and center of the state, and natural resources such as coal, timber, and petroleum in the south, Illinois has a diverse economic base, and is a major transportation hub. The Port of Chicago connects the state to international ports via two main routes: from the Great Lakes, via the Saint Lawrence Seaway, to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River, via the Illinois River, through the Illinois Waterway. The Mississippi River, the Ohio River, and the Wabash River form parts of the boundaries of Illinois. For decades, Chicago's O'Hare International Airport has been ranked as one of the world's busiest airports. Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and, through the 1980s, in politics. The capital of Illinois is Springfield, which is located in the central part of the state. Although today Illinois's largest population center is in its northeast, the state's European population grew first in the west as the French settled lands near the Mississippi River, when the region was known as Illinois Country and was part of New France. Following the American Revolutionary War, American settlers began arriving from Kentucky in the 1780s via the Ohio River, and the population grew from south to north. In 1818, Illinois achieved statehood. Following increased commercial activity in the Great Lakes after the construction of the Erie Canal, Chicago was incorporated in the 1830s on the banks of the Chicago River at one of the few natural harbors on the southern section of Lake Michigan. John Deere's invention of the self-scouring steel plow turned Illinois's rich prairie into some of the world's most productive and valuable farmland, attracting immigrant farmers from Germany and Sweden. The Illinois and Michigan Canal (1848) made transportation between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River valley faster and cheaper, and new railroads carried immigrants to new homes in the country's west and shipped commodity crops to the nation's east. The state became a transportation hub for the nation. |
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