USS Greeneville

(GPM)

It is a Los Angeles-class submarine and is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named after Greeneville, Tennessee.

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  • Type: submarine
  • Historical period: modernity, 1994
  • Country: USA
  • Scale: 1:100
  • Number of sheets: 16 sheets A3

Historical information

USS Greeneville (SSN-772), a Los Angeles-class submarine and is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named after Greeneville, Tennessee.

The Los Angeles class (also known as the 688-class) is a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines (SSN) in service with the United States Navy. They represent two generations and close to half a century of the U.S. Navy's attack submarine fleet. All submarines of this class are named after American towns and cities (e.g. Key West, Florida, and Greeneville, Tennessee), the exception being the USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN-709). This system of naming broke a long-standing tradition in the U.S. Navy of naming attack submarines for creatures of the ocean (e.g. USS Nautilus (SSN-571)).

The Greeneville is probably best known for colliding with a Japanese fishing vessel off the coast of Oahu in February 2001.

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