USS COLUMBUS
SSN 762
  
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Keel Laid: January 7, 1991
Christened: August 1, 1992
Commissioned: July 24, 1993

Builder: Electric Boat Co., Groton, CT.
Propulsion system: 1 S6G PWR 
Length, overall: 360 feet (109.73 meters)
Beam: 33 feet (10 meters)
Draft: 32 15" feet (9.8 meters)
Displacement: 6300 tons (surfaced)
                       7147 tons (submerged)
Speed: 15 knots (surfaced)
            32+ knots (submerged)
Depth:  800+ feet (operational)
approx. 1200 feet (safe depth)
approx. 1800 feet (crash depth)
Crew: 14 Officers 115 Enlisted
Armament: 
 - 12 MK 36 VLS for Tomahawk missiles
 - 4/533mm TT MK 67 (amidships) for MK 48 and MK 48 ADCAP 
torpedoes (22 reloads + 2 additional emergency), mines
Homeport: Pearl Harbor, HI.