Keel Laid: September 14, 1992
Launched: September 1, 1997
Commissioned: December 11, 1998

Builder: General Dynamics Electric Boat Division, Groton, CT.
Propulsion system: 1 S6W PWR (200 MW) 
Length, overall: 352 9" feet (107.6 meters)
Beam: 40 feet (12.2 meters)
Draft: 35 feet (10.67 meters)
Displacement: 7460 tons (surfaced)
                       9137 tons (submerged)
Speed: 20 knots (surfaced)
            35+ knots (submerged)
Depth:  800+ feet (operational)
approx. 1600 feet (safe depth)
approx. 2250 feet (crash depth)
Crew: 12 Officers 121 Enlisted
Armament: 8/673mm TT (up to 50 Tomahawk missiles and 
MK 48 ADCAP torpedoes or up to 100 mines) 
Homeport: Bremerton, WA.