Sail from the USS Boston
One of the more unusual attractions at the Inner Harbor's Commercial Slip is the sail from the USS Boston (nuclear powered attack submarine). Nautical history buffs and kids with wild imaginations tend to congregate around this displaced sail. USS Boston info:
Awarded: December 10, 1973
Keel Laid: August 11, 1978
Launched: April 19, 1980
Commissioned: January 30, 1982
Decommissioned: November 19, 1999
Builder: Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, CT
Propulsion system: one nuclear reactor
Propellers: one
Length: 360 feet (109.73 meters)
Beam: 33 feet (10 meters)
Draft: 32,15 feet (9.8 meters)
Displacement: Surfaced: approx. 6,000 tons
Displacement: Submerged: approx. 6,900 tons
Speed: Surfaced: approx. 15 knots
Speed: Submerged: approx. 32 knots
Armament: four 533 mm torpedo tubes for Mk-48 torpedoes, Harpoon missiles
Cost: approx. $900 million
Crew: 12 Officers, 115 Enlisted
Info from:
www.navysite.de/ssn/ssn703.htm
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