USS Charlotte (SSN-766) Specifications

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Class overview
Namesake:	The City of Charlotte, North Carolina
Builders:	Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Operator:	United States Navy
Motto:	Silent Stinger
Ship number:	766
In commission:	September 16, 1994
Active:	1
Laid down:	August 17, 1990
Launched:	October 3, 1992
Sponsored by:	Mrs. Mary McCormack
Commissioned:	September 16, 1994
In service:	In active service, as of 2011
Homeport:	Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam
General characteristics
Class and type:	Los Angeles-Class Submarine
Displacement:	6,000 long tons (light) 6,927 long tons (full) 927 long tons (dead)
Length:	361 feet 11 inches
Beam:	32 feet 10 inches
Draft:	30 feet 10 inches
Propulsion:	S6G Nuclear Reactor
Speed:	15 knots surfaced - 30 knots submerged
Range:	Essentially unlimited distance; 20 years
Sailors Aboard:	12 officers and 98 enlisted
Armament:	4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 10 × Mark 48 ADCAP torpedoes Tomahawk missiles Harpoon missiles Mark 67 Submarine Launched Mobile Mines Mark 60 CAPTOR mines
Armor:	Classified
Submersibles carried:	Advanced SEAL Delivery System (ASDS) Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle (DSRV)

 

 

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