USS Dallas SSN-700 Black Hull with Dry Dock Flt I Submarine Model

  
USS Dallas SSN-700 Black Hull with Dry Dock Flt I Submarine Model. Sail again with the crew of the USS Dallas SSN-700 Flt I in this handcrafted wooden submarine model. Each piece is carved from wood and handpainted to provide a piece you'll love. USS Dallas (SSN-700) was a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the United States Navy. On 4 April 2018, after nearly 37 years of commissioned service, the boat was decommissioned at the Controlled Industrial Area of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. The defueled vessel will eventually undergo recycling. Service history The contract to build Dallas was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 31 October 1973 and her keel was laid down on 9 October 1976. She was launched on 28 April 1979 sponsored by Mrs. Rita Crocker Clements, wife of former Deputy Secretary of Defense William P.

And commissioned on 18 July 1981 with then-Commander Donald R. [3] Dallas was the first submarine of the Los Angeles class to be originally built with an all-digital fire control (tracking and weapon) system and sonar system. After commissioning, Dallas was attached to Submarine Development Squadron 12 in New London, Connecticut, where she was involved in research and development projects. From September 1988 Dallas was a member of Submarine Squadron 2, New London, Connecticut.

During her time with Squadron 2, she completed the first ever Depot Modernization Period and various overseas deployments. Dallas completed an Engineered Refueling Overhaul (ERO) at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine in 1998. The D1G-2 core was replaced with a D2W core.

Dallas has had a removable Dry Deck Shelter for over a decade. Dallas has completed one deployment to the Indian Ocean, four Mediterranean Sea deployments, two Persian Gulf deployments, and seven deployments to the North Atlantic. On 27 August 1981 Dallas damaged her lower rudder when she ran aground while approaching the Atlantic Underwater Test and Evaluation Center site at Andros Island, Bahamas. Dallas returning from her 2013 deployment. Naval Sea Systems Command, the city of Dallas and the Dallas Navy League began discussions in 2008 for items from the boat in support of a memorial.

These will become available during the actual vessel recycling phase, which is scheduled for 2023 for Dallas. [2] Originally, it was planned to decommission Dallas in September 2014.

[5] In May 2013, officials with the city of Dallas, Texas, announced a plan to create a maritime museum more than 250 miles (400 km) from the nearest body of water in which a submarine can operate in. Mayor Mike Rawlings and members of a foundation formed to create the new facility revealed one of their goals is to acquire and display Dallas next to a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) museum building.

In 2013, the US Navy announced that the plan to retire Dallas had been extended to Fiscal Year 2017 and that instead, USS Norfolk would begin inactivation in early 2015. The Dallas Navy League had planned to host the four-day inactivation ceremony, to take place in Galveston, TX on 7 April, 2017.

The Navy League subsequently reported that this public relations event was canceled by the US Navy, citing "budgetary constraints" while operating under a continuing resolution. Additionally, costs to the City of Dallas and/or the US Navy from leasing back already-allocated pier space were judged as excessive.