USS Lafayette SSBN 616

Ship Characteristics

General Characteristics

Awarded:   July 22, 1960

Keel laid:    January 17, 1961

Launched:  May 8, 1962

Commissioned:  April 23, 1963

Decommissioned: August 12, 1991

Builder:  Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT.

Propulsion: one S5W nuclear reactor

Propellers: one

Length:  425 feet (129.6 meters)

Beam: 33 feet (10 meters)

Draft:   31.5 feet (9.6 meters)

Displacement: Surfaced: approx. 7,250 tons

Submerged: approx. 8,250 tons

Speed:  Surfaced 16 - 20 knots

Speed:  Submerged  22 - 25 knots

Crew:   Two crews of 13 Officers and 130 Enlisted

Armament:   16 vertical tubes for Polaris or Poseidon missiles,

   four 21" torpedo tubes for Mk-48 torpedoes,

   Mk-14/16 torpedoes, Mk-37 torpedoes and Mk-45

   nuclear torpedoes

            1                2       3    4            5                   6               7

1  Engine Room

2  Aux Machinery Room 2

3  Reactor Compartment

4  Aux Machinery Room 1

Watertight Compartments

6  Operations Compartment

7  Torpedo Room

5  Missile Compartment

Updated: 9/10/2009