Career
Awarded:	26 November 1984
Laid down:	19 June 1987
Launched:	23 June 1990
Commissioned:	29 June 1991
Status:
Homeport:	Portsmouth, New Hampshire
General Characteristics
Displacement:	6000 tons light, 6927 tons full, 927 tons dead
Length:	110.3 meters (362 feet)
Beam:	10 meters (33 feet)
Draft:	9.4 meters (31 feet)
Propulsion:	one S6G reactor
Complement:	12 officers, 98 men
Motto:	Twice as Strong

USS Alexandria (SSN-757), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for either Alexandria, Virginia, and Alexandria, Louisiana. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 26 November 1984 and her keel was laid down on 19 June 1987. She was launched on 23 June 1990 sponsored by Mrs. Glenwood Clark, Jr., and commissioned on 29 June 1991, with Commander Paul Normand in command.

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Alexandria, together with the guided-missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG-63), the frigate USS Gary (FFG-51), and P-3C Orion maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft, participated in Exercise Malabar 2004, a training exercise with the Indian Navy off the southwest coast of India that ended 11 October 2004.

See USS Alexandria for other ships of the same name.

References

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register as well as various press releases and news stories.