USS Providence (SSN-719)
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| Missing image USS_Providence_SSN-719.jpg USS Providence (SSN-719) | |
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| Awarded: | 16 April 1979 |
| Laid down: | 14 October 1982 |
| Launched: | 4 August 1984 |
| Commissioned: | 27 July 1985 |
| Status: | Template:Active in service |
| Homeport: | Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 5781 tons light, 6184 tons full, 403 tons dead |
| Length: | 110.3 meters (362 feet) |
| Beam: | 10 meters (33 feet) |
| Draft: | 9.4 meters (31 feet) |
| Propulsion: | one S6G reactor |
| Complement: | 12 officers, 98 men |
USS Providence (SSN-719), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the fifth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Providence, Rhode Island. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 16 April 1979 and her keel was laid down on 14 October 1982. She was launched on 4 August 1984 sponsored by Mrs. William F. Smith, and commissioned on 27 July 1985, with Captain E. Morrow in command.
Providence is the first Los Angeles class submarine to be equipped with the Tomahawk missile Vertical Launch System (VLS).
Providence has been deployed several times to the Western Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Persian Gulf. Some of the ports visited have included Port Canaveral (Cocoa Beach, Florida) and Port Everglades (Fort Lauderdale, Florida), Naval Station Roosevelt Roads in Puerto Rico, Tromsų in Norway, Gibraltar, Toulon in France, Soudha Bay, Crete and La Maddalena, Italy in the Mediterranean and Manama, Bahrain, and both Dubai and Jebel'Ali in the United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf. The submarine has made transits of the Suez Canal in 1998, 2001 and 2003 and participated in Operation Southern Watch, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, where she earned the nickname "Big dog of the Red Sea wolf pack."
USS Providence SSN-719 has been awarded 3 Armed Forces Expeditionary Medals, 3 Navy Expeditionary Medals, 4 Meritorious Unit Commondations, 4 Naval Unit Commondations and 5 Battle E awards, and most recently the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal.
The submarine is currently undergoing overhaul at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine.
See USS Providence for other ships of the same name.
References
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register and various press releases.
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