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USS Baton Rouge (SSN-689)

USS Baton Rouge (SSN-689) is a Los Angeles class nuclear powered attack submarine laid down by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company at Newport News in Virginia on 18 November 1972, launched on 26 April 1975 and commissioned on 25 June 1977. She collided with a Soviet Sierra class submarine off Severomorsk on 11 February 1992. USS Baton Rouge was placed in commission in reserve on 1 November 1993, decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 13 January 1995, and entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program on 30 September 1997.