About The Boat
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ABOUT THE USS SIMON BOLIVAR (SSBN 641)

 

~  Without Fear • Without Reproach  ~

 

Specifications:

 

  • USS ASPRO (SSN 648) PatchKeel Laid: 17 APR 63
  • Launched: 22 AUG 64
  • Commissioned: 29 OCT 65
  • Decommissioned: 08 FEB 85
  • Stricken: 08 FEB 85
  • Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company
  • Propulsion system: one S5W nuclear reactor
  • Screw: one
  • Length: 425 ft (130 meters)
  • Beam: 33 ft (10 meters)
  • Draft: 32 ft (9.8 meters)
  • Displacement, surfaced: approx. 6500 tons
  • Displacement, submerged: approx. 8500 tons 
  • Speed: Surfaced: 16 knots
  • Speed: Submerged: in excess of 21 knots
  • Armament:  sixteen missle tubes. four x 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
  • Crew: (two) 14 Officers, 126 Enlisted each

 

Sources: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, www.navysite.de

  

 

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