USS Asheville (SSN 758) Radio Call Sign: November - Alpha - Sierra - Hotel
Named after the city of Asheville, N.C., USS ASHEVILLE is the 47th fast attack submarine in the LOS ANGELES - class and the fourth ship in the Navy to bear the name.
USS Asheville (SSN 758)
Named after the city of Asheville, N.C., USS ASHEVILLE is the 47th fast attack submarine in the LOS ANGELES - class and the fourth ship in the Navy to bear the name.
General Characteristics: Awarded: November 26, 1984
Keel laid: January 9, 1987
Launched: February 24, 1990
Commissioned: September 28, 1991
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding Co., Newport News, Va.
Propulsion system: one nuclear reactor
Propellers: one
Length: 360 feet (109.73 meters)
Beam: 33 feet (10 meters)
Draft: 32,15 feet (9.8 meters)
Displacement: Surfaced: approx. 6,300 tons Submerged: approx. 7,100 tons
Speed: Surfaced: approx. 15 knots Submerged: approx. 32 knots
Armament: Tomahawk missiles from 12 VLS-tubes, four 533 mm torpedo Tubes for Mk-48 torpedoes, Harpoon missiles, ability to lay mines
Cost: approx. $900 million
Homeport: San Diego, CA
Crew: 13 Officers, 116 Enlisted
USS Asheville (SSN-758), is a Los Angeles-class submarine. She is the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Asheville, North Carolina. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 26 November 1984 and her keel was laid down on 9 January 1987. She was launched on 24 February 1990, sponsored by Mrs. Dorothy Helms, and commissioned on 28 September 1991, with Commander Patrick Casey in command.
Asheville was fitted with a developmental Advanced Mine Detection System (AMDS) high-frequency active sonar array with transmitters and receivers in the sail and in a disc-shaped chin sonar dome beneath the hull at the bow. The system is used for target detection, mine avoidance, and bottom navigation. After a highly successful testing period the system was removed during overhaul in 2003.
Asheville is home ported in San Diego, CA where she is assigned to Submarine Squadron 11
