Career
Awarded:	4 February 1971
Laid down:	6 April 1974
Launched:	19 February 1977
Commissioned:	10 June 1978
Fate:	submarine recycling
Stricken:	29 July 1996
General Characteristics
Displacement:	5767 tons light, 6151 tons full, 384 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 Cincinnati (SSN-693), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Cincinnati, Ohio. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 4 February 1971 and her keel was laid down on 6 April 1974. She was launched on 19 February 1977 sponsored by Mrs. William Keating, and commissioned on 10 June 1978, with Commander Gilbert V. Wilkes, III in command.

In November 1979, prior to a patrol in the Mediterranean Sea, Cincinnati was visited by former President of the United States Richard M. Nixon and Admiral Hyman Rickover for an overnight "familiarization and orientation cruise."

Returning from the Mediterranean in August of 1980, Cincinnati rescued a Finnish sailor 70 miles off the east coast of Florida who had been in the water for 22 hours after falling overboard from the Finnish freighter Finnbeaver.

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Cincinnati was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 29 July 1996. Ex-Cincinnati is scheduled to enter the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington.

See USS Cincinnati 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.