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New York City (SSN-696)

Los Angeles Class Attack Submarine: Laid down, 15 December 1973, at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT.; Launched, 18 June 1977; Commissioned, USS New York City (SSN-696), 3 March 1979. Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 30 April 1997; 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.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By/ Source
83k	The New York City (SSN-696) slides down the launching ways at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT., 18 June 1977.	Courtesy of Electric Boat and General Dynamics Corporations.
27k	An 1979 Oil on canvas painting by the artist William Merklein entitled "Commission of the New York City* (SSN-696)."*	Painting # 88-162-EL. Courtesy of the USNHC.
110k	An aerial port bow view of the New York City (SSN-696) underway on 1 May 1982.	Courtesy of Electric Boat and General Dynamics Corporations & Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr.
430k	An aerial port bow view of the *Los Angeles Class* nuclear-powered attack submarine New York City (SSN-696) underway on 1 May 1982. *Note:* This photo and the above look alike, but they are slightly different, the guy in the back has his head turned.	Official U.S. Navy photo # DN-SC-82-05952, courtesy of Electric Boat and General Dynamics Corporations, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
55k	Acrylic, watercolour and gouache painting by the artist Viktor Stepansky entitled "Los Angeles Class in the Waves". *Note:* New York City (SSN-696) photos aren't jumping off the walls, so to flesh out the page I decided to put these images here. Technically, they foot the bill.	Photo courtesy of subart.net. Photo added 02/22/07.
47k	Watercolour painting by the artist Jim Christley entitled "Working Up To Speed". A *Los Angeles Class* submarine pushes a tremendous bow wake when traveling on the surface at high speed. This submarine, built to travel more efficiently when completely submerged, is working its way up to its full speed while passing a sloop of another age.	Photo & text courtesy of subart.net. Photo added 02/22/07.
31k	New York City (SSN-696) approaching port, bow view, date and place unknown.	Courtesy of navysite.de

There is no DANFS History currently available for New York City (SSN-696) 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
SSN-688 Los Angeles-class
Virtual Tour of USS Springfield (SSN 761) from PBS's Nova web site

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