USS Providence (SSN 719)

- decommissioned -

USS PROVIDENCE was the 32^nd LOS ANGELES - class Attack Submarine. Starting with USS PROVIDENCE and beyond the last 31 hulls of the LOS ANGELES - class had 12 vertical launch tubes for the Tomahawk cruise missile, along with an upgraded reactor core.

Homeported at Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Conn., throughout her entire service life, PROVIDENCE departed her homeport for the last time in late August 2021, enroute to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Wash., for the year-long inactivation process. The submarine arrived in Bremerton on September 23, 2021, and was inactivated on December 2, 2021. On August 22, 2022, PROVIDENCE was officially decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list.

General Characteristics:	Awarded: April 16, 1979
	Keel Laid: October 14, 1982
	Launched: August 4, 1984
	Commissioned: July 27, 1985
	Decommissioned: August 22, 2022
	Builder: Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, Conn.
	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 Submerged: approx. 6,900 tons
	Speed: Surfaced: approx. 15 knots Submerged: approx. 32 knots
	Armament: Harpoon missiles, Tomahawk missiles from 12 vertical launch tubes, four 533 mm torpedo tubes for Mk-48 torpedoes
	Cost: approx. $900 million
	Crew: 12 Officers, 115 Enlisted

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Crew List:

This section contains the names of sailors who served aboard USS PROVIDENCE. It is no official listing but contains the names of sailors who submitted their information.

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USS PROVIDENCE Image Gallery:

The photos below were taken by me and show the PROVIDENCE at Naval Base Toulon, France, in late September 2015. At the time, the PROVIDENCE was in the final days of a six-month Middle East deployment. On September 12, 2015, the submarine transited the Suez Canal re-entering the Mediterranean. After participating in Exercise Dynamic Manta in the Ionian Sea, the PROVIDENCE arrived at Toulon. The first photos below show the pretty worn PROVIDENCE on September 23. Note the missing coating on the rudder. The last three photos were taken three days later on September 26 and show the repainted submarine. USS PROVIDENCE returned home to Groton on October 9, 2015.

The photo below was taken by Michael Jenning and shows the PROVIDENCE at Submarine Base Groton, Conn., on October 15, 2015. She is still wearing her homecoming lei on the sail.

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