USS Maine (SSBN-741)
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| Career |
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| Ordered: | October 5, 1988 |
| Laid down: | July 3, 1990 |
| Launched: | July 16, 1994 |
| Delivered: | June 23, 1995 |
| Commissioned: | July 29, 1995 |
| Fate: | in service |
| General Characteristics |
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| Displacement: | 16600 tons light, 18700 tons full, 2100 tons dead |
| Length: | 560 feet |
| Beam: | 42 feet |
| Draft: | 38 feet |
| Speed: | 30+ knots |
| Complement: | 13 officers, 140 enlisted |
| Armament: | 24 Trident missiles, four 21-inch torpedo tubes |
USS Maine (SSBN-741), an Ohio-class Trident ballistic missile nuclear submarine, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy authorized (the third commissioned) to be named in honor of the 23rd state. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics, Groton, Connecticut, on 5 October 1988, and construction began on 3 July 1990. Maine was launched on 16 July 1994, delivered to the Navy on 23 June 1995, and commissioned on 29 July 1995.
Maine played a part in Tom Clancy's techno-thriller Sum of all Fears. At the end as DEFCON 1 is recinded Maine is destroyed by the Soviet Submarine Admiral Lunin.
Maine is homeported in Kings Bay, Georgia.
See USS Maine for other ships of this name.
