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![]() USS Miami moored to a Port Everglades pier in April 2004. | |
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Name | Miami |
Namesake | City of Miami |
Awarded | 28 November 1983 |
Builder | General Dynamics Electric Boat |
Laid down | 24 October 1986 |
Launched | 12 November 1988 |
Sponsored by | Jane P. Wilkinson |
Commissioned | 30 June 1990 |
Decommissioned | 28 March 2014 |
Out of service | 8 August 2013 |
Stricken | 28 March 2014 |
Homeport | Groton, Connecticut, U.S. |
Identification | SSN-755 |
Motto | "No Free Rides, Everybody Rows!" |
Status | Stricken, to be disposed of by submarine recycling |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Los Angeles-class submarine |
Displacement | |
Length | 110.3 m (361 ft 11 in) |
Beam | 10 m (32 ft 10 in) |
Draft | 9.4 m (30 ft 10 in) |
Propulsion | |
Complement | 12 officers, 98 men |
Armament |
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USS Miami (SSN-755) was a Los Angeles-class submarine of the United States Navy. She was the third vessel of the U.S. Navy to be named after Miami, Florida. Miami was the forty-fourth Los Angeles-class (688) submarine and the fifth Improved Los Angeles-class (688I) submarine to be built and commissioned. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut, on 28 November 1983, and her keel was laid down on 24 October 1986. She was launched on 12 November 1988 and commissioned on 30 June 1990 with Commander Thomas W. Mader in command.
On 1 March 2012, Miami arrived at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, for a scheduled 20-month Engineered Overhaul (EOH) and system upgrades. On 23 May, a shipyard employee started a fire that spread to crew living, command and control, and torpedo spaces. Repairs were initially estimated to require three years and $450 million, an estimate later revised to a range of $450 million to $700 million.
On 6 August 2013, Navy officials said that due to budget cuts, the vessel would not be repaired. The submarine was placed on the inactive list, [3] then decommissioned on 28 March 2014. [4]
Miami became the first submarine to conduct combat operations in two theaters since World War II (Operation Desert Fox and Operation Allied Force). The submarine was featured in The Learning Channel (TLC) Extreme Machine episode on "Nuclear Submarines".
At 5:41 p.m. EDT on 23 May 2012, fire crews were called with a report of a fire on Miami while she was being overhauled at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. At the time, the submarine was in the second month of a scheduled 20-month maintenance cycle, [5] [6] indicating that she was undergoing an extensive "Engineering Overhaul". [7] The national media reported that seven firefighters had been injured. [8] One crew member suffered broken ribs when he fell through a hole left by removed deck plates during the fire. [9] It took firefighters 12 hours to extinguish it. [10]
Initially, the U.S. Navy reported that the fire started when an industrial vacuum cleaner used "to clean worksites on the sub after shipyard workers' shifts" sucked up a heat source that ignited debris inside the vacuum. On 23 July 2012, however, civilian painter and sandblaster Casey J. Fury was indicted on two counts of arson after confessing to starting the fire. Fury said he lit rags on a berthing compartment's top bunk so he could get out of work early. [11] [12] [13] [14] On 15 March 2013, he was sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $400 million in restitution. [15] As of March 2021, Fury was incarcerated at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey. [16]
The debate over whether to repair or scrap Miami lasted more than a year. Within a month of the fire, Maine Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe advocated repairing the submarine. [17] In July 2012, Navy leaders asked Congress to add $220 million to the operations and maintenance budget for emergent and unfunded ship repairs. [18] In August, the Navy decided to repair the boat for an estimated total cost of $450 million. [19] The repair cost was expected to be trimmed by using spare parts from the recently decommissioned USS Memphis [20] and by repairing rather than replacing damaged hull sections, as had been done with another Los Angeles-class boat, San Francisco. [21] But both of these approaches proved unworkable with the newer Miami. [22] [23] As well, a detailed assessment raised the estimated repair bill to $700 million. [24]
On 6 August 2013, the U.S. Navy announced its intention to decommission Miami, concluding the cost was more than it could afford in a time of budget cuts. [25] The sub was officially decommissioned on 28 March 2014, to be disposed of via the nuclear Ship-Submarine Recycling Program. [26]
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This article includes information collected from the public domain sources Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships and Naval Vessel Register .