USS Florida (SSGN-728)

USS Florida (SSGN-728)


For USS Floridian, see USS Floridian (ID-3875). For other ships of the same name, see USS Florida.
USS Florida (SSGN-728)

USS Florida (SSGN-728)
Career (US)
Namesake: U.S state of Florida
Ordered: 28 February 1975
Builder: General Dynamics Electric Boat
Laid down: 4 July 1976
Launched: 14 November 1981
Commissioned: 18 June 1983
Homeport: Kings Bay, Georgia
Motto: Fortes Fortuna Adiuvat
("Fortune Favors the Brave")
Status: in active service, as of 2012
Badge:
General characteristics
Class & type: Ohio-class submarine
Displacement: 16,764 metric tons (16,499 long tons) surfaced
18,750 metric tons (18,450 long tons) submerged
Length: 560 feet (170 m)
Beam: 42 ft (13 m)
Draft: 38 feet (12 m)
Propulsion: 1xS8G PWR nuclear reactor
2x geared turbines
1x325 hp (242 kW) auxiliary motor
1 shaft @ 60,000 shp (45 MW)
Speed: Greater than 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Test depth: Greater than 800 feet (240 m)
Complement: 15 officers
140 enlisted
Armament: 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
154 × BGM-109 Tomahawks in 22 groups of seven.

USS Florida (SSBN-728/SSGN-728), an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, is the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the 27th state. She was commissioned with the hull designation of SSBN-728; with her conversion to a cruise missile submarine, she was re-designated SSGN-728.

Read more about USS Florida (SSGN-728):  Construction and Commissioning, Operational History, Conversion To SSGN, Operation Odyssey Dawn