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The Seawolf class is a class of nuclear-powered, fast attack submarines (SSN) in service with the United States Navy. The class was the intended successor to the Los Angeles class, and design work began in 1983. [10] A fleet of 29 submarines was to be built over a ten-year period, but that was reduced to 12 submarines.
USS Seawolf (SSN-21) is a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine and the lead ship of her class. She is the fourth submarine of the United States Navy named for the seawolf , a solitary fish with strong, prominent teeth that give it a savage look.
Seawolf was the same basic "double hull" twin-screw submarine design as her predecessor USS Nautilus (SSN-571), but her propulsion system was more technologically advanced. The Submarine Intermediate Reactor (SIR) nuclear plant was designed by General Electric 's Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and prototyped in West Milton, New York .
USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) is the third and final Seawolf-class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine in the United States Navy. Commissioned in 2005, she is named for the 39th president of the United States , Jimmy Carter , the only president to have qualified on submarines. [ 7 ]
35 submarines retired Rubis class France: 2,670 French Navy: 2: 6: 0: 4 retired Seawolf class (SSN-21) United States: 9,300 United States Navy: 3: 3: 0: 29 originally planned, 3rd in class built substantially modified for special missions Shang class (Type 093) People's Republic of China: 8,000 People's Liberation Army Navy: 6: 6: 0: Sierra ...
Examples of ships using pumpjets are the Car Nicobar-class patrol vessels, the Hamina-class missile boats, Valour-class frigates, the Stena high-speed sea service ferries, the Royal Navy Swiftsure, Trafalgar and Astute-class submarines, as well as the United States Seawolf and Virginia-classes, and the Russian Borei-class submarines.
USS Seawolf may refer to: USS Seawolf (SS-28), renamed USS H-1 before launching, was the lead ship of the H-class of submarine. Commissioned in 1913, she ran aground and sank in 1920; USS Seawolf (SS-197) was a Sargo-class submarine. Commissioned in 1939, she was successful during World War II until she was lost to friendly fire in 1944
Seawolf Park is a memorial to USS Seawolf (SS-197), a United States Navy Sargo-class submarine mistakenly sunk by U.S. Navy forces in 1944 during World War II. It is located on Pelican Island ( 29°20′03″N 94°46′45″W / 29.33417°N 94.77917°W / 29.33417; -94.77917 ), just north of Galveston , Texas , in the United States