Career
Awarded:	10 June 1988
Laid down:	15 August 1991
Launched:	20 March 1994
Commissioned:	18 August 1995
Status:
Homeport:	Pearl Harbor
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

USS Tucson (SSN-770), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Tucson, Arizona. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 10 June 1988 and her keel was laid down on 15 August 1991. She was launched on 20 March 1994 sponsored by Mrs. Diane C. Kent, and commissioned on 18 August 1995, with Commander Duane M. Baker in command.

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On 19 May 2004, Tucson departed for a Western Pacific deployment.

See USS Tucson for other ships of the same name.

Tucson in fiction

• In Tom Clancy's novel The Bear and the Dragon, Tucson is charged with sinking China's only SSBN type submarine.

References

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