![]() Columbus performing an Emergency main ballast tank blow in 1998
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Name | USS Columbus |
Namesake | The City of Columbus, Ohio |
Awarded | 21 March 1986 |
Builder | General Dynamics Electric Boat |
Laid down | 9 January 1991 |
Launched | 1 August 1992 |
Sponsored by | Margaret DeMars[2] |
Commissioned | 24 July 1993 |
Homeport | Naval Station Pearl Harbor (Currently Newport News Shipbuilding for overhaul.[1]) |
Status | In active service |
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Class and type | Los Angeles-class submarine |
Displacement | |
Length | 110.3 m (361 ft 11 in) |
Beam | 10 m (32 ft 10 in) |
Draft | 9.4 m (30 ft 10 in) |
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Complement | 12 officers, 98 men |
Sensors and processing systems | BQQ-5 passive sonar, BQS-15 detecting and ranging sonar, WLR-8 fire control radar receiver, WLR-9 acoustic receiver for detection of active search sonar and acoustic homing torpedoes, BRD-7 radio direction finder |
Armament | 4 × 21 in (533 mm) bow tubes, 10 Mk48 ADCAP torpedo reloads, Tomahawk land attack missile block 3 SLCM range 1,700 nautical miles (3,100 km), Harpoon anti–surface ship missile range 70 nautical miles (130 km), mine laying Mk67 mobile Mk60 captor mines |
USS Columbus (SSN-762) is a Los Angeles-class nuclear powered fast attack submarine and the second vessel of the United States Navy to be named for Columbus, Ohio. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut, on 21 March 1986 and her keel was laid down on 9 January 1991. She was launched on 1 August 1992 sponsored by Mrs. Margaret DeMars, wife of Admiral Bruce DeMars and commissioned on 24 July 1993.
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