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Career | |
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Awarded: | 31 October 1973 |
Laid down: | 1 April 1982 |
Launched: | 21 January 1984 |
Commissioned: | 19 January 1985 |
Fate: | Active, in commission |
Homeport: | Groton, Connecticut |
General Characteristics | |
Displacement: | 5786 tons light, 6164 tons full, 378 tons dead |
Length: | 110.3 meters (362 feet) |
Beam: | 10 meters (33 feet) |
Draft: | 9.7 meters (32 feet) |
Complement: | 12 officers, 98 men |
The Soviet Navy claimed that on 20 October 1986, Augusta collided with the Delta-I class ballistic missile submarine K-279 in the eastern Atlantic. Augusta allegedly returned to Groton for US$3 million worth of repairs to her bow.
See USS Augusta for other ships of the same name.