USS Sand Lance (SSN-660)
USS Sand Lance (SSN-660) in Charleston Harbor off Charleston, South Carolina, with Fort Sumter in the background. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS Sand Lance (SSN-660) |
| Namesake | The sand lance |
| Ordered | 24 October 1963 |
| Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine |
| Laid down | 15 January 1965 |
| Launched | 11 November 1969 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Thomas J. McIntyre |
| Commissioned | 25 September 1971 |
| Decommissioned | 7 August 1998 |
| Stricken | 7 August 1998 |
| Honours & awards | Awarded Navy Unit Commendation and Navy Expeditionary Medal in 1979 for Special Operations conducted that same year. |
| Fate | Scrapping via Ship and Submarine Recycling Program begun 1 April 1998, completed 30 August 1999 |
| Badge | |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Sturgeon-class attack submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 292 ft (89 m) |
| Beam | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Draft | 29 ft 10 in (9.09 m) |
| Installed power | 15,000 shaft horsepower (11.2 megawatts) |
| Propulsion | One S5W nuclear reactor, two steam turbines, one screw |
| Test depth | 1,300 ft (400 m) |
| Complement | 107 (12 officers, 95 enlisted men) |
| Armament | 4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
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USS Sand Lance (SSN-660), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine, was the second ship and the second submarine of the United States Navy to be named for the sand lance, a member of the family Ammodytidae.