USS Colorado (SSN-788)
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 United States of America
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| Name: | USS Colorado |
| Namesake: | The State of Colorado |
| Awarded: | 22 December 2008 |
| Builder: | Electric Boat |
| Cost: | ~$2.6 billion |
| Laid down: | 7 March 2015 |
| Launched: | 29 December 2016 |
| Sponsored by: | Annie Mabus |
| Christened: | 3 December 2016 |
| Commissioned: | TBD Spring 2017 |
| Motto: | Terra Marique Indomita (“By land and sea, untamed”) |
| Status: | Under Construction |
| Badge: |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Virginia-class submarine |
| Displacement: | 7800 tons light, 7800 tons full |
| Length: | 114.9 meters (377 feet) |
| Beam: | 10.3 meters (34 feet) |
| Installed power: | 40,000 SHP |
| Propulsion: | S9G reactor |
| Speed: | 25 knots (46 km/h) |
| Range: | Essentially unlimited distance; 33 years |
| Test depth: | greater than 800 feet (240 meters) |
| Complement: | 134 officers and men |
| Armament: | 4 21-inch torpedo tubes, 2 Virginia Payload Tubes, capable of holding 6 Tomahawk missiles each for a total of 38 weapons |
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USS Colorado (SSN-788), will be a Virginia-class submarine. The contract to build her was awarded to Huntington Ingalls Industries in partnership with the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics in Newport News, Virginia on 22 December 2008. This ship is the fifth of the Block III subs which will feature a revised bow, including some technology from Ohio-class SSGNs.
The official naming ceremony was in April 2012. In July 2014, ETCM (SS) Brett A. Jackson was named as the PCU Colorado's first Chief of the Boat, later in October 2014, CDR Ken Franklin was named as the ship's first Commanding Officer (CO), and the following October, LCDR Stephen Col was named as the Executive Officer (XO). On 30 April 2015, the winner of the ship's crest was announced. LTJG Michael Nielsen, now assigned to PCU Colorado, designed the crest. On 20 October 2015, the finalized crest and new motto were unveiled. She was christened on 3 December 2016.
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