Career
Awarded:	15 September 1977
Laid down:	26 August 1980
Launched:	16 October 1982
Commissioned:	12 May 1984
Fate:
Homeport:	San Diego, California
General Characteristics
Displacement:	5747 tons light, 6098 tons full, 351 tons dead
Length:	110.3 meters (362 feet)
Beam:	10 meters (33 feet)
Draft:	9.7 meters (32 feet)
Propulsion:	one S6G reactor
Complement:	12 officers, 98 men

USS Salt Lake City (SSN-716), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Salt Lake City, Utah. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 15 September 1977 and her keel was laid down on 26 August 1980. She was launched on 16 October 1982 sponsored by Mrs. Kathleen Garn, and commissioned on 12 May 1984, with Commander Richard Itkin in command.

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Salt Lake City shifted her homeport from Pearl Harbor to San Diego, California, in October 2002.

On 22 October 2004, Salt Lake City returned from a deployment with the Stennis carrier strike group in the western Pacific Ocean, after surging, over a month ahead of schedule, in support of Summer Pulse '04. Port calls during the deployment included Guam, Sasebo, Yokosuka, Singapore, and Oahu, Hawaii.

See USS Salt Lake City 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.