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Type, class: Attack
Submarine, nuclear propulsion - SSN; Virginia class (Block I) Builder: Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia, USA STATUS: Awarded: September 1, 1998 Laid down: May 22, 2004 Christened: April 21, 2007 Launched: May 5, 2007 Commissioned: May 3, 2008 IN SERVICE Homeport: Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii Namesake: State of North Carolina Ships Motto: PRIMUS IN PROELIO (first in fight) Technical Data: see: INFO > Virginia class Attack Submarine - SSN |
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 in dry-dock at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PHNSY & IMF) for its Depot Modernization Period - September 5, 2024  entering dry-dock at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PHNSY & IMF) - September 4, 2024  entering dry-dock at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PHNSY & IMF) - September 4, 2024  during Exercise RIMPAC 24 - Pacific Ocean - July 2024  during Exercise RIMPAC 24 - Pacific Ocean - July 2024  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - January 31, 2024  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - January 31, 2024  arriving at Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan - January 5, 2024  arriving at Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan - January 5, 2024  departing Naval Base Guam, Apra Harbor - December 22, 2023  arriving at Royal Australian Navy Base HMAS Stirling, Fleet Base West (Garden Island, Perth), Western Australia - August 4, 2023  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - May 25, 2022  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - May 25, 2022  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - May 25, 2022  arriving at Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan - February 25, 2022  arriving at Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan - February 25, 2022  arriving at Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan - February 25, 2022  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - November 4, 2021  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - November 4, 2021  off Oahu, Hawaii - June 2021  Navy Divers assigned to Naval Special Warfare Command conduct operations off Hawaii - June 2021  Navy Divers assigned to Naval Special Warfare Command conduct operations off Hawaii - June 2021  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - June 16, 2021  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - June 16, 2021  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - June 16, 2021  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - June 16, 2021  COMSUBPAC change of command ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - April 29, 2021  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - March 25, 2020  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - March 25, 2020  moored at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - September 2019  Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - May 2019  Busan, Republic of Korea - February 1, 2016  Yokosuka, Japan - November 2015  approaching Yokosuka, Japan - November 2015  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - January 2015  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - January 2015  Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - June 2014  Changi Naval Base, Singapore - April 2014  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - June 2012  Sasebo, Japan - March 2012  Sasebo, Japan - March 2012  Polaris Point, Guam - January 2012  Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan - December 2011  Yokosuka, Japan - December 2011  Yokosuka, Japan - December 2011  Yokosuka, Japan - December 2011  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - December 2011  arriving at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - November 2010  Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - November 2010  Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - November 2010  change of command ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia - September 2008  Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - May 2008  Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - May 2008  Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia - May 2008  commissioning ceremony - Wilmington, North Carolina - May 3, 2008  commissioning ceremony - Wilmington, North Carolina - May 3, 2008  commissioning ceremony - Wilmington, North Carolina - May 3, 2008  commissioning ceremony - Wilmington, North Carolina - May 3, 2008  commissioning practice - Wilmington, North Carolina - April 2008  Wilmington, North Carolina - April 2008  Wilmington, North Carolina - April 2008  sea trials - 2007  sea trials - 2007  sea trials - 2007  returning from trials  launching at Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia - May 5, 2007  launching at Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia - May 5, 2007  prepared for launch at Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia - May 2007  christening ceremony at Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia - April 21, 2007  Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia - April 8, 2007  under construction at Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia - October 2006  under construction at Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia - September 2006  under construction at Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia - September 2006  under construction at Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia - May 2006  under construction at Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia - March 2006  keel laying ceremony at Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia - May 22, 2004 |
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USS North Carolina (SSN 777): The contract to build her was awarded to Northrop Grumman Newport News (then called Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company) in Newport News, Virginia on 30 September 1998 and her keel was laid down on 22 May 2004. She was christened on 21 April 2007 sponsored by Linda Bowman, wife of Admiral Frank L. "Skip" Bowman, the former director of Naval Reactors. Captain Mark E. Davis, a native of upstate New York, was the ship’s first commanding officer and leads a crew of approximately 134 officers and enlisted personnel. The boat has physical connections to previous North Carolinas. Sections of the teak decking from the previous North Carolina are reused within the submarine, and several pieces from a silver serving set made for the armored cruiser ACR-12, then transferred through the state governor to the battleship will be used aboard SSN-777. North Carolina joined the fleet on 21 February 2008, after problems with the boat's steam valve and internal piping system had forced two delays in the acceptance of the vessel. Welding issues in the internal piping system scuttled a first-planned December 2007 delivery, and the discovery of an inadequate steam valve forced a further delay from January to February 2008. The ship's official commissioning ceremony was held on 3 May 2008, in Wilmington, North Carolina. The submarine joined the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet based in New London, Connecticut. In 2010, North Carolina changed homeports from Naval Submarine Base New London to Naval Station Pearl Harbor. She left Groton for Pearl Harbor on 22 July 2010 and arrived at her new homeport, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, on Monday, 15 November 2010 after her four-month transfer activities. During the transfer, the officers and crew of North Carolina conducted a series of exercises designed to test the boat's new combat systems and stealth capabilities. North Carolina is the third Virginia-class attack submarine to be homeported at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and is assigned to Commander, Submarine Squadron 1. Received squadron 1 battle E for year 2015. source: wikipedia |
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North Carolina ... is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. North Carolina is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the 50 United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and South Carolina to the south, and Tennessee to the west. Raleigh is the state's capital and Charlotte is its largest city. The Charlotte metropolitan area, with an estimated population of 2,569,213 in 2018, is the most-populous metropolitan area in North Carolina, the 23rd-most populous in the United States, and the largest banking center in the nation after New York City. The Raleigh-Durham-Cary combined statistical area is the second-largest metropolitan area in the state, with an estimated population of 2,079,687 in 2019, and is home to the largest research park in the United States, Research Triangle Park. Earliest discoveries of human occupation in North Carolina date back to 10,000 years ago, found at the Hardaway Site. North Carolina was inhabited by Carolina Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan speaking tribes of Native Americans prior to the arrival of Europeans. North Carolina was established as a royal colony in 1729 and was one of the Thirteen Colonies. North Carolina is named in honor of King Charles I of England who first formed the English colony, Carolus being Latin for "Charles". The Halifax Resolves resolution adopted by North Carolina on April 12, 1776, was the first formal call for independence from Great Britain among the American Colonies during the American Revolution. On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the United States constitution. In the run-up to the American Civil War, North Carolina declared its secession from the Union on May 20, 1861, becoming the tenth of eleven states to join the Confederate States of America. Following the Civil War, the state was restored to the Union on July 4, 1868. On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully piloted the world's first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina's Outer Banks. North Carolina uses the slogan "First in Flight" on state license plates to commemorate this achievement, alongside a newer alternative design bearing the slogan "First in Freedom" in reference to the Mecklenburg Declaration and Halifax Resolves. |
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