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USS Bremerton (SSN-698)

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Awarded: 24 January 1972
Laid down: 8 May 1976
Launched: 22 July 1978
Commissioned: 28 March 1981
Fate:
Homeport: San Diego, California
General Characteristics
Displacement: 5789 tons light, 6159 tons full, 370 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

USS Bremerton (SSN-698), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Bremerton, Washington. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 24 January 1972 and her keel was laid down on 8 May 1976. She was launched on 22 July 1978 sponsored by Mrs. Henry M. Jackson, and commissioned on 28 March 1981 with Captain Thomas H. Anderson in command.

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On 11 March 1998, Bremerton used one torpedo to sink the derelict forebody of the merchant ship New Carissa off the Oregon coast.

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See USS Bremerton 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.

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