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Birmingham (SSN-695)

Los Angeles Class Attack Submarine: Laid down, 26 April 1975, at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock, Co., Newport News, VA.; Launched, 29 October 1977; Commissioned, USS Birmingham (SSN-695), 16 December 1978. Decommissioned and simultaneously struck from the Naval Register, 22 December 1997; Final Disposition, to be disposed of through 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.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By/ Source
86k	The Birmingham (SSN-695) executes an emergency ascent demonstration during her sea trials in TOTO (Tongue of the Ocean), circa late 1977-78. The photo was taken by a Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry-dock Co. photographer who was on the range control ship. It was an operational test of the emergency blow system. This was the best emergency-blow photo that the shipyard took (of the first-contract) *688 class* ships built at Newport News.	U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Newport News & Drydock Co. Text info courtesy of Kirk Mathews, former Officer of the Deck.
571k	A starboard beam view of the submarine tender L. Y. Spear (AS-36) with the nuclear-powered attack submarine Birmingham (SSN-695) tied up to its side. Both ships have part of their crews manning the rail for the commissioning ceremony for the nuclear-powered attack submarine Houston (SSN-713), 25 Sep 1982 at NAS Norfolk, VA.	Defense Visual Information Center photo # DN-ST-83-00367, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
22k	Commemorative post mark on the occasion of Birmingham's (SSN-695) visit to Port Everglades, 3 Feb. 1984 & a TOTO (Tongue of the Ocean) exercise.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
339k	Four *Los Angeles-class* nuclear-powered attack submarines display ensigns and union jacks during the commissioning ceremony for their sister ship, the Salt Lake City (SSN-716). Moored together at a pier are the Baton Rouge (SSN-689), the Atlanta (SSN-712), the Birmingham (SSN-695), and the Norfolk (SS-714) at Norfolk, VA on 12 May 1984.	Defense Visual Information Center photo # DN-SN-84-09364 by PH2 Wujcik, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. Photo added 09/26/06.
167k	View from the Hickam side of Pearl Harbor as the Birmingham (SSN-695) reaches the mouth of the channel as it departs from the naval station after a visit, 1 Jun 1991.	Defense Visual Information Center photo # DN-ST-96-00640 by OS2 John Bouvia, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
374k	The nuclear-powered attack submarine Birmingham (SSN-695) steams through the channel as it departs from the naval station after a visit.	Defense Visual Information Center photo # DN-SC-92-03571 by OS2 John Bouvia, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
688k	An aerial view of various U.S. navy ships moored at the Mina Sulman pier. Included are the nuclear-powered attack submarine Birmingham (SSN-695), the destroyer tender Cape Cod (AD-43), the guided missile cruiser Horne (CG-30), the guided missile frigate Rodney M. Davis (FFG-60), the replenishment oiler Kansas City (AOR-3), the amphibious transport dock Nashville (LPD-13), and the tank landing ship Barnstable County (LST-1197), 16 May 1993.	Defense Visual Information Center photo # DN-SC-93-05971 by OS2 John Bouvia, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.

There is no DANFS History currently available for Birmingham (SSN-695) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
U.S.S. Birmingham SSN 695
SSN-688 Los Angeles-class
Virtual Tour of Springfield (SSN 761) from PBS's Nova web site

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