USS AUGUSTA SSN 710 ATTACK SUBMARINE~CACHE~04 NOV 1993 CNX CAPE CANAVERAL FL VF

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USS AUGUSTA SSN 710 04 NOV 1993 CANCELLED IN CAPE CANAVERAL, FL.  CACHE COVER TIED TO A SC 2609 29¢ STAMP~FINE/VERY FINE.
Los Angeles Class Attack Submarine: Laid down, 1 April 1982, at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT.; Launched, 21 January 1984; Commissioned, USS Augusta (SSN-710), 19 January 1985. Augusta was assigned to the US Atlantic Fleet and homeported at Groton, CT. On 11 February 2009 She was officially decommissioned and stricken from the U.S. Naval Vessel Register in a ceremony at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. The sub was towed in May 2009 to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Wash., for layup pending recycling.
Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 6,000 t., Submerged: 6.927 t.; Length 360'; Beam 33'; Draft 29'; Speed, Surfaced 25 kts, Submerged 30+ kts; Depth limit 950'; Complement 129; Armament, four 21" torpedo tubes aft of bow can also launch Harpoon and Tomahawk ASM/LAM missiles & MK-48 torpedoes; Combat Systems, AN/BPS-5 surface search radar, AN/BPS-15 A/16 navigation and fire control radar, TB-16D passive towed sonar arrays, TB-23 passive "thin line" towed array, AN/BQG-5D wide aperture flank array, AN/BQQ-5D/E low frequency spherical sonar array, AN/BQS-15 close range active sonar (for ice detection); MIDAS Mine and Ice Detection Avoidance System, SADS-TG active detection sonar, Type 2 attack periscope (port), Type 18 search periscope (starboard), AN/BSY-1 (primary computer); UYK-7; UYK-43; UYK-44, WLR-9 Acoustic Intercept Receiver, ESM; Propulsion System, S6G nuclear reactor one propeller at 35,000 shp.
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