USS BOSTON
SSN 703
  
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Keel Laid: August 11, 1978
Launched: April 19, 1980
Commissioned: January 30, 1982
Decommissioned: November 19, 1999

Builder: Electric Boat Co., Groton, CT. 
Propulsion system: 1 S6G PWR 
Length, overall: 360 feet (109.73 meters)
Beam: 33 feet (10 meters)
Draft: 32 15" feet (9.8 meters)
Displacement: 6130 tons (surfaced)
                       6977 tons (submerged)
Speed: 15 knots (surfaced)
            32+ knots (submerged)
Depth:  800+ feet (operational)
approx. 1200 feet (safe depth)
approx. 1800 feet (crash depth)
Crew: 12 Officers 121 Enlisted
Armament: 4/533mm TT MK 67 (amidships) for Tomahawk 
missiles, MK 48 and MK 48 ADCAP torpedoes (22 reloads + 2 
additional emergency)