USS Massachusetts (SSN-798)
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The lead boat of the Virginia class, USS Virginia (SSN-774).
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Name: | USS Massachusetts |
Namesake: | Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
Ordered: | April 28, 2014[1] |
Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia |
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Class & type: | Virginia-class submarine |
Displacement: | 7,800 tons |
Length: | 377 ft (115 m) |
Beam: | 34 ft (10.4 m) |
Draft: | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
Propulsion: | S9G reactor auxiliary diesel engine |
Speed: | 25 knots (46 km/h) |
Endurance: | can remain submerged for up to 3 months |
Test depth: | greater than 800 ft (244 m) |
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Armament: | 12 VLS tubes, four 21 inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes for Mk-48 torpedoes BGM-109 Tomahawk |
Massachusetts (SSN-798), a Virginia-class submarine, will be the seventh U.S. Navy ship named for the state of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced the name on November 8, 2015 in an opinion piece for The Boston Globe.[2] It is the first ship named after the Commonwealth of Massachusetts since the battleship USS Massachusetts (BB-59) was decommissioned in 1947.[3]
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