CONNECTICUT (SSN-22) USS submarine

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CONNECTICUT (SSN-22) USS submarine

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Built as a nuclear submarine under yard No 255 by General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton for the USA Navy.
03 May 1991 ordered.
14 September 1992 laid down.
01 September 1997 launched as the USS CONNECTICUT (SSN-22). One of the Seawolf-class.
Displacement: 7,568 tons light, 9,137 tons full, 1,569 tons dead. Length107.5 meters (353 feet) overall, 107.5 meters (353 feet) waterline. Beam 12.1 meters (40 feet). Draft 10.9 meters (36 feet)
Propulsion One S6W reactor.
Armament: Eight 26-inch torpedo tubes, 40 torpedoes, and missiles, or 100 mines.
Complement: 15 officers, 101 men.
11 December 1998 commissioned. Homeport, Kitsap Naval Base, Bremerton, Washington.


USS CONNECTICUT (SSN-22) is a Seawolf-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarine operated by the United States Navy. CONNECTICUT is the fifth active United States Ship to be named for the U.S. state of Connecticut, going back to 1776. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 3 May 1991, and her keel was laid down on 14 September 1992. She was launched on 1 September 1997 sponsored by Patricia L. Rowland, wife of the Governor of Connecticut, John G. Rowland, and commissioned on 11 December 1998.

History
1999 was spent conducting shakedown operations that evaluated CONNECTICUT's weapons systems, sensors, stealth, and engineering proficiency. She participated in Joint Task Force Exercise 2-99 as an opposing force asset and completed acoustic trials, a shallow-water exercise, and an anti-submarine warfare exercise.
In September 1999 CONNECTICUT began a Post-Shakedown Availability (PSA) at the Electric Boat shipyard. Despite 100 percent growth in the amount of PSA work, making this the submarine force's most demanding PSA, CONNECTICUT completed all work ahead of schedule. Additionally, this PSA concluded as the safest in the 100-year history of Electric Boat.

In April 2003, CONNECTICUT surfaced through the Arctic ice at the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station (APLIS). While there, she came under attack by a polar bear, which gnawed on her rudder for a while before disengaging.

On 31 March 2004 CONNECTICUT was put to sea in support of the War on Terrorism as part of the Wasp Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG), returning to NSB New London on 2 September with a pier-side band blasting Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back in Town". For the next three years, CONNECTICUT was largely confined to port as she underwent a prolonged maintenance cycle.

In early 2007, it was announced that CONNECTICUT would be transferred to Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton, in Washington's Puget Sound, following a six-month deployment commencing on 25 July 2007. She would be the last of the Navy's three Seawolf-class submarines to be transferred from New London to Kitsap as part of a larger U.S. Navy realignment shifting 60 percent of the fleet's submarines to the Pacific. Upon arrival at Kitsap on 30 January 2008, CONNECTICUT joined her Seawolf sisters in Submarine Development Squadron Five. In early 2011, CONNECTICUT participated in ICEX 2011 in order to "train today’s submarines in the challenging Arctic environment,” as well as "refine and validate procedures and required equipment."

The CONNECTICUT received extensive overhauls from 2012 to 2017 following extensive underways. After she then returned to operation wherein early 2018, CONNECTICUT once again returned to the North to participate in ICEX 2018. She later that year deployed to the western Pacific before returning on January 30, 2019.
From March 26 through August 19, 2019, CONNECTICUT underwent maintenance and modernization in a drydock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. The US $17 million project involved 30,000 worker days and included the use of a hull-climbing robot to inspect the ship's hull.

The Navy has plans to extend a submarine pier to be able to moor CONNECTICUT and USS SEAWOLF together with USS JIMMY CARTERr at Naval Submarine Base Bangor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS CONNECTICUT_%28SSN-22%29

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