Built as an attack submarine by Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newport News, USA, for the USA Navy.
06 October 1992 keel laid down.
01 April 1995 launched under the name USS CHEYENNE (SSN-773), christened by Ann Simpson, wife of a Wyoming Senator, she was the third ship in the USA Navy which carried the name CHEYENNE. Named after the Wyoming capital city. One of the Los Angeles class of which 50 were built.
Displacement 8.060 tons surfaced, 9.150 tons submerged, dim. 107.6 x 12.2 x 10.67m. (draught surfaced).
One nuclear reactor, Westinghouse S6G 18.665hp, speed surfaced 15.9 knots, submerged 35.0 knots, twin screws.
Diving depth 450 meter
Armament: 12 Vertical launched Tomahawk missiles MK-48, 8- 21 inch torpedo tubes.
Crew 13 officers and 121 enlisted.
Building cost, approx. $2.1 billion.
13 Sept. 1997 commissioned under command of Cdr. Peter H. Ozimik.
After a shake down cruise she entered the builders yard for some alternations, before heading to her home base Pearl Harbour, as a unit of the Pacific Fleet.
31 July 2002 she sailed from Pearl Harbour in Operation Iraqi Freedom, she was a unit of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, and she was one of the first vessels to launch a Tomahawk cruise missile into Iraq on 18 March 2003. She was the first Pacific Fleet unit to return home on 31 July when she arrived at her base in Hawaii.
2009 In service.
Marshall Islands 2000 33c sg?, scott 754D
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