USS Connecticut (SSN-22)
USS Connecticut (SSN-22) departing on her first scheduled deployment on 1 May 2002.
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| Name: | USS Connecticut |
| Namesake: | The U.S. State of Connecticut |
| Ordered: | 3 May 1991 |
| Builder: | General Dynamics Electric Boat |
| Laid down: | 14 September 1992 |
| Launched: | 1 September 1997 |
| Commissioned: | 11 December 1998 |
| Homeport: | Kitsap Naval Base, Bremerton, Washington |
| Motto: | "Arsenal of the Nation" |
| Status: | in active service |
| Badge: |  |
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| Class and type: | Seawolf-class submarine |
| Displacement: | 7,568 tons light, 9,137 tons full, 1,569 tons dead |
| Length: | 107.5 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 |
| Complement: | 15 officers, 101 men |
| Armament: | Eight 26-inch torpedo tubes, 40 torpedoes and missiles, or 100 mines |
USS Connecticut (SSN-22) is a Seawolf-class submarine operated by the United States Navy. Connecticut is the fifth U.S. Navy ship to be named for the U.S. state of Connecticut.
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 with Captain Larry Davis in command.
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 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 pierside 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.
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