Missing image USS_Rhode_Island_(SSBN-740).jpg The USS Rhode Island (SSBN-740)
Career
Ordered:	5 January 1988
Laid down:	15 September 1988
Launched:	17 July 1993
Commissioned:	9 July 1994
Decommissioned:	N/A
Fate:	Active in service as of 2005.
Homeport:	Kings Bay, Georgia
Motto:	In Spe Pacis Perennis
Struck:	N/A
General Characteristics
Displacement:	18,750 tons
Length:	560 ft
Beam:	42 ft
Draught:	38 ft
Propulsion:	Steam Turbine (Nuclear)
Speed:
Complement:	Crew: 13 officers, 140 enlisted
Armament:	24 tubes for Trident I and II, Mark 48 torpedoes, four torpedo tubes

The third USS Rhode Island (SSBN-740) is the 15th of 18 Ohio-class submarines in the United States Navy.

Built by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics in Groton, Connecticut, Rhode Island was commissioned in 9 July 1994. Captain John K. Eldridge was the first Blue Crew Commanding Officer, and Commander Michael Maxfield was the Commanding Officer for the Gold Crew.

She is part of the Atlantic Fleet and homeported in Kings Bay, Georgia.

See USS Rhode Island for other ships of this name.

External links

• Photos of USS Rhode Island (http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08740.htm)

This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

Ohio-class submarine

SSGN 726 Class: Ohio | Michigan | Florida | Georgia

SSBN 726 Class: Henry M. Jackson | Alabama | Alaska | Nevada | Tennessee | Pennsylvania | West Virginia | Kentucky | Maryland | Nebraska | Rhode Island | Maine | Wyoming | Louisiana

List of submarines of the United States Navy List of submarine classes of the United States Navy