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Omaha (SSN-692)

Los Angeles Class Attack Submarine: Laid down, 27 January 1973, at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT.; Launched, 21 February 1976; Commissioned, USS Omaha (SSN-692), 11 March 1978. Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 5 October 1995; Final Disposition, in storage at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard awaiting disposal through the NPSSRP (Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA.

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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Omaha157kCommemorative postal cover issued on the occasion of Omaha (SSN-692) keel laying on 27 January 1973 at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT. USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com
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0869205		974k The officers and crew of the Omaha (SSN-692), salute the National Ensign as she slides down the launching way at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT., 21 February 1976. Electric Boat photo courtesy of history.navy.mil
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0869214		2.48k A combined 20 page PDF program for Omaha (SSN-692) & Jacksonville (SSN-699) at General Dynamics, Electric Boat Division 21 February 1976. PDF courtesy of Darryl L. Baker.
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0869213		567k The Omaha (SSN-692) was sponsored by Victoria Hruska, wife of Senator Roman L. Hruska (Nebraska).
Members of the Senate Ladies Red Cross Unit sit at a table during a luncheon (attended by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy) in the Old Supreme Court Chamber, United States Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. on 1 May 1962. The Red Cross unit (also known as "Ladies of the Senate") is comprised of the wives of members of the US Senate. Clockwise around table: Dorothy Gruening (far left), wife of Senator Ernest Gruening (Alaska); Margaret Schwarzenbach Beall, wife of Senator James Beall (Maryland); unidentified; Ruth Siegel Ribicoff, wife of Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Abraham Ribicoff; Katherine Jordan, wife of Senator B. Everett Jordan (North Carolina); unidentified; Victoria Hruska, wife of Senator Roman L. Hruska (Nebraska); three unidentified women. 		Photo courtesy of jfklibrary.org.
Omaha152kCommemorative postal cover issued on the occasion of Omaha's (SSN-692) launching at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT., 21 February 1976. Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory).
Omaha184kCommemorative postal cover issued on the occasion of Omaha's (SSN-692) launching at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT., 21 February 1976. USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com
Omaha2.64k Inactivation Ceremony PDF for the Omaha (SSN-692). USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com
Omaha23kCommemorative postal cover issued on the occasion of Omaha's (SSN-692) commissioning, 11 March 1978. Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory).
Omaha77k Commemorative postal cover on the occasion of the Omaha's (SSN-692) first successful rocket firing, July 1979. Courtesy of Paul Petosky.
Omaha 411kA port bow view of the nuclear-powered attack submarine Omaha (SSN-692) underway on 14 December 1987. USN photo # DN-ST-87-09106 by PH3 Brewer, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
Omaha 458kA port beam view of the nuclear-powered submarine Omaha (SSN-692) departing from the Philippines at Naval Station Subic Bay on 1 April 1990. USN photo # DN-ST-90-08317 by PH1 Sanner, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
Omaha 137k A port quarter view of the nuclear-powered submarine Omaha (SSN-692) departing from the Philippines at Naval Station Subic Bay on 1 April 1990. USN photo # DN-ST-90-08319 by PH1 Sanner, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
Omaha 142kA port quarter view of the nuclear-powered submarine Omaha (SSN-692) departing from the Philippines. USN photo # DN-ST-90-08318 by PH1 Sanner, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
Omaha 146kA port beam view of the nuclear-powered submarine Omaha (SSN-692) departing from the Philippines. USN photo # DN-ST-90-08320 by PH1 Sanner, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
Omaha 654kA port view of the nuclear-powered submarine Omaha (SSN-692) departing from the Philippines at Naval Station Subic Bay on 1 April 1990. USN photo # DN-ST-90-08321 by PH1 Sanner, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
Omaha 146kOmaha (SSN-692) can be seen from the top of this mountain. USN photograph USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com
Omaha327kBow on view of the Omaha (SSN-692) underway. USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com
Omaha15k Commemorative postal cover on the occasion of Omaha's (SSN-692) decommissioning, 5 October 1995. Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory).
Omaha32k Commemorative postal cover issued on the 25th anniversary of the Omaha's (SSN-692) commissioning, 11 March 2003. Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory).
Spent Fuel569kSealed reactor compartments are shipped by barge out of Puget Sound Naval Base down the coast and along the Columbia River to the port of Benton. There the radioactively-contaminated hull sections are transferred to special multiwheeled high-load trailers for transport to the Hanford Reservation in Washington State. Pictured below is the burial ground for spent fuel of the following 77 nuclear reactor submarines as of March 2003:
Patrick Henry (SSBN-599),
Snook (SSN-592),
George Washington (SSBN-598),
Scamp (SSN-588),
Robert E. Lee (SSBN-601),
Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618),
Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600),
Dace (SSN-607),
John Adams (SSBN-620),
Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602),
Barb (SSN-596),
Ethan Allen (SSBN-608),
Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610),
Pollack (SSN-603),
Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685),
James Monroe (SSBN-622),
Skipjack (SS-585),
Nathan Hale (SSBN-623),
Plunger (SSN-595),
Shark (SSN-591),
Lafayette (SSBN-616),
Sam Houston (SSBN-609),
Jack (SSN-605),
Haddo (SSN-604),
Tinosa (SSN-606),
Guardfish (SSN-612),
Permit (SSN-594),
Queenfish (SSN-651),
Ulysses S. Grant (SSBN-631),
John Marshall (SSBN-611),
George C. Marshall (SSBN-654),
Flasher (SSN-613),
Guitarro (SSN-665),
Alexander Hamilton (SSBN-617),
George Washington Carver (SSBN-656),
Tecumseh (SSBN-628),
Halibut (SSGN-587),
Will Rogers (SSBN-659),
Henry L. Stimson (SSBN-655),
Daniel Boone (SSBN-629),
Greenling (SSN-614),
John C. Calhoun (SSBN-630),
Casimir Pulaski (SSBN-633),
Skate (SSN-578),
Sargo (SSN-583),
Francis Scott Key (SSBN-657),
Sturgeon (SSN-637),
Benjamin Franklin (SSBN-640),
Swordfish (SSN-579),
Seadragon (SSN-584),
Stonewall Jackson (SSBN-634),
Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641),
Hammerhead (SSN-663),
Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-658) ,
Tullibee (SSN-597),
Lewis & Clark (SSBN-644),
Pargo (SSN-650),
Seahorse (SSN-669),
Gurnard (SSN-662),
Flying Fish (SSN-673),
Gato (SSN-615),
Puffer (SSN-652),
Seawolf (SSN-575),
Baton Rouge (SSN-689),
Bergall (SSN-667),
Whale (SSN-638),
Henry Clay (SSBN-625),
James Madison (SSBN-627),
Finback (SSN-670),
Spadefish (SSN-668),
Sunfish (SSN-649),
George Bancroft (SSBN-643),
Grayling (SSN-646),
Pintado (SSN-672),
Tunny (SSN-682),
Archerfish (SSN-678),
& Woodrow Wilson (SSBN-624).
As time passes & more boats are retired from service and their reactors are brought here, so the numbers rise. In this photo dated November 2009, 98 nuclear submarines and six nuclear cruisers have been recycled. For an up to date view, click here		USN photo submitted by Jack Treutle (of blessed memory).
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Commanding Officers
01CDR. Hamilton, Ted Allen, USN11.03.1978 - 22.10.1978 First Date in Commission
02CDR. Greenman, Robert Pruyn, USN (USNA 1962)22.10.1978 - 18.03.1982
03CDR. Clark, Bartlett Lee, USN (USNA 1967)18.03.1982 - 19.12.1986
04CDR. Padgett III, John Bramwell, USN (USNA 1969) :RADM19.12.1986 - 19.12.1988
05CDR. Sherwood, Roger Raymond, USN19.12.1988 - 06.09.1991
06CDR. Pohtos, Robert Nicholas, USN06.09.1991 - 12.11.1993
07CDR. Kilbourn, Edward Payne, USN (USNA 1976)12.11.1993 - 05.10.1995 Last Date in Commission
Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler
There is no DANFS History currently available for Omaha (SSN-692) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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