USS Philadelphia (SSN-690)

Awards

Trivia

* The initials of Mrs. Hugh Scott are welded into the keel.
* The ship completed its 1,000th dive during its 2003 deployment.
* Initial construction of the "Philadelphia" was actually delayed to prevent it being completed prior to the USS "Los Angeles" (SSN 688), the ship whose name the class bears. It was the first 688-class submarine to be built and delivered to the U.S. Navy by the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics Corporation.
* CDR Jablon, a recent "Philadelphia" CO, served his junior officer tour on board the "L. Mendel Rivers", the ship from whom the "Philadelphia" received its first Dry Deck Shelter.
* CAPT Emil Casciano, the current Commander, Submarine Squadron Two (to which "Philadelphia" is assigned), is a prior "Philadelphia" CO.

In fiction

"Philadelphia" appears in the Tom Clancy novel "Red Storm Rising", launching cruise missiles against military airfields inside the Soviet Union. It is sunk by torpedoes fired from an Alfa class submarine.

References

External links

* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08690.htm navso taurce.org: USS "Philadelphia" (SSN-690)]
* [http://www.csg2.navy.mil/Philadelphia/philadelphia.htm Commander Submarine Group Two: USS "Philadelphia" (SSN-690)]
* [http://navysite.de/ssn/ssn690.htm navysite.de: USS "Philadelphia" (SSN-690)]
* [http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=11510 Navy NewsStand: USS "Philadelphia" Returns From Historic Deployment (2003)]
* [http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=34565 Navy NewsStand: USS "Philadelphia" Returns After Highly Successful Deployment (2007)]

eptember 5, 2005 Collision

* [http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=19914 Navy NewsStand: No Injuries as U.S. Submarine and Merchant Vessel Collide]
* [http://cruelkev2.blogspot.com/2005/09/sonars-failure-to-notice-caused.html Sailors & Mariners League: Sonar's Failure To Notice Caused Turkish Ship To Hit US Submarine]
* [http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1157769.php Navy Times: Discipline, praise meted out to Philadelphia crew]
* [http://bubbleheads.blogspot.com/2005/10/uss-philadelphia-homeward-bound.html The Stupid Shall Be Punished: USS Philadelphia Homeward Bound (photos)]
* [http://bubbleheads.blogspot.com/2005/11/uss-philadelphia-returns-home.html The Stupid Shall Be Punished: USS Philadelphia Returns Home]

Online Communities

* [http://www.communityzero.com/philly/ Community Zero: USS Philadelphia (registration required)]
* [http://unitpages.military.com/unitpages/unit.do?id=202205 Military.com: USS Philadelphia (registration required)]