USS Providence (SSN-719)
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| Name: | USS Providence |
| Namesake: | City of Providence |
| Awarded: | 16 April 1979 |
| Builder: | General Dynamics Electric Boat |
| Laid down: | 14 October 1982 |
| Launched: | 4 August 1984 |
| Acquired: | 26 June 1985 |
| Commissioned: | 27 July 1985 |
| Homeport: | Groton, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Identification: | UIC 21029 |
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| Status: | in active service |
| Badge: |  |
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| Class and type: | Los Angeles-class submarine |
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| Length: | 110.3 m (361 ft 11 in) |
| Beam: | 10 m (32 ft 10 in) |
| Draft: | 9.4 m (30 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion: | S6G nuclear reactor |
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| Complement: | 12 officers; 98 enlisted |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
BQQ-10 passive sonar, BQS-15 detecting and ranging sonar, BYG-1 fire control, BLQ-10 radio and ESM, BPS-15H radar |
| Armament: | 4 × 21 in (533 mm) bow tubes, 10 Mk48 ADCAP torpedo reloads, Tomahawk land attack missile block 3 SLCM range 1,700 nautical miles (3,100 km), Harpoon anti–surface ship missile range 70 nautical miles (130 km), mine laying Mk67 mobile Mk60 captor mines |
USS Providence (SSN-719), a Los Angeles-class submarine, is the fifth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Providence, Rhode Island. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 16 April 1979 and her keel was laid down on 14 October 1982. She was launched on 4 August 1984 sponsored by Mrs. William F. Smith, and commissioned on 27 July 1985, with Captain E. Morrow in command.
Providence is the first Los Angeles class submarine to be equipped with the Tomahawk missile Vertical Launch System (VLS). While others used test boxes and programs, Providence was the first submarine to launch a Tomahawk cruise missile from the VLS system using its combat system CCS MK1 and associated software C4.1.
Providence has been deployed several times to the Western Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Persian Gulf. Some of the ports visited have included Port Canaveral (Cocoa Beach, Florida) and Port Everglades (Fort Lauderdale, Florida), Naval Station Roosevelt Roads in Puerto Rico, Tromsø in Norway, Halifax in Nova Scotia, Gibraltar, Toulon in France, Souda Bay in Crete, La Maddalena in Italy, and Koper in Slovenia, in the Mediterranean, and al-Manama, Bahrain, and both Dubai and Jebel Ali in the United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf. The submarine has made transits of the Suez Canal in 1998, 2001, and 2003 and participated in Operation Southern Watch, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, where she earned the nickname "Big dog of the Red Sea wolf pack."
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