Attack Submarine USS Asheville SSN 758

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060215-N-9500T-454 San Diego (Feb. 15, 2006) –

The Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Asheville (SSN 758) underway conducting high-speed surface drills off the coast of Southern California.

Asheville is assigned to Submarine Squadron Eleven homeported at Naval Base Point Loma, Calif. U.S. Navy photo by photographer's Mate 2nd Class Scott Taylor (RELEASED)

General Characteristics, Los Angeles class

Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding Co.; General Dynamics Electric Boat Division.

Date Deployed: November 13, 1976 (USS Los Angeles)

Propulsion: One nuclear reactor, one shaft

Length: 360 feet (109.73 meters)

Beam: 33 feet (10.06 meters)

Displacement: Approximately 6,900 tons (7011 metric tons) submerged

Speed: 20+ knots (23+ miles per hour, 36.8 +kph)

Crew: 13 Officers; 121 Enlisted

Armament: Tomahawk missiles, VLS tubes (SSN 719 and later), MK-48 torpedoes, four torpedo tubes (Seawolf has 8).

source: U.S. Navy