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Radio Call Sign: November - Uniform - Zulu - Yankee

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.

Click On Image For Full Size	Size	Image Description	Source By
0869614	183k	Keel cachet of the New York City (SSN-696), 15 December 1973.	USN photo USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
0869613	735k	Initialing of the keel of the New York City (SSN-696) by Mrs. James L. Buckley.	USN photo USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
	4.00k	Cliff Notes version of the New York City (SSN-696) covering Keel Laying, Commissioning, Launching & Welcome Aboard ceremonies.	USN photo USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
	1.60k	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.	Photo courtesy of Electric Boat and General Dynamics Corporations via Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
	2.29k	Launching Ceremony, 18 June 1977 & Welcome Aboard Pamphlet of the New York City (SSN-696). PDF file of 20 photos.	USN photo USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
0869603	722k	An 1979 Oil on canvas painting by the artist William Merklein entitled "Commission of the New York City* (SSN-696)."*	Photo courtesy of history.navy.mil
0869612	735k	New York City (SSN-696) not off the coast of NYC.	Photo courtesy of history.navy.mil
	2.89k	Commissioning Ceremony, 3 March 1979 of the New York City (SSN-696). PDF file of 26 photos.	USN photo USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
	541k	The New York City (SSN-696) on 20 April 1982.	USN photo USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
	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.	Official USN 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".	Photo courtesy of subart.net.
	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.
	302k	The New York City (SSN-696) is welcomed back from a patrol.	USN photo USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
	31k	New York City (SSN-696) steel beach, possibly off Hawaii, circa early 1980's.	Photo i.d. courtesy of Don Cole Reed. Courtesy of navysite.de
	3.60k	Inactivaion Ceremony, 1 December 1995 of the New York City (SSN-696). PDF file of 25 photos.	USN photo USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.

Commanding Officers
01	CDR. Ross, James Andrew, USN	03.03.1979 - 30.03.1981 First Date in Commission
02	CDR. Walther, Arthur Ernest, USN (USNA 1963)	30.03.1981 - 20.07.1984
03	CDR. Crotteau, Robert Allen, USN (USNA 1968)	20.07.1984 - 24.02.1988
04	CDR. Travis, Thomas Lee, USN (USNA 1971)	24.02.1988 - 30.10.1990
05	CDR. Miletich, Charles Anthony, USN (USNA 1974)	30.10.1990 - 04.06.1993
06	CDR. Vaughn, Gregory Martin, USN (USNA 1976)	04.06.1993 - 03.07.1996
07	CDR. Martinez, Ricardo, USN (USNA 1978)	03.07.1996 - 30.04.1997 Last Date in Commission


Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler

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
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Virtual Tour of USS Springfield (SSN 761) from PBS's Nova web site

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