|
|
|
|
HOME
|
US Navy -
ships
|
US Navy - air
units
|
USMC - air
units
|
International
Navies
|
Weapon Systems
|
Special Reports |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
US Navy - Attack SubmarineSSN 725 - USS Helena |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Type, class: Attack Submarine, nuclear propulsion - SSN; Los Angeles class (Flight II / VLS) Builder: General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut, USA
STATUS: Awarded: April 19, 1982 Laid down: March 28, 1985 Launched: June 28, 1986 Commissioned: July 11, 1987 IN SERVICE (2015)
Homeport: Norfolk, Virginia Namesake: City of Helena, Montana Ships Motto: PROUD AND FEARLESS Technical Data: see: INFO > Los Angeles class Attack Submarine - SSN |
|
|
|
|
images
|
|
 Norfolk, Virginia - August 2015  Norfolk, Virginia - May 2015  Souda Bay, Crete, Greece - September 2013  Souda Bay, Crete, Greece - September 2013  Souda Bay, Crete, Greece - September 2013  Souda Bay, Crete, Greece - September 2013  Souda Bay, Crete, Greece - September 2013  Souda Bay, Crete, Greece - September 2013  Souda Bay, Crete, Greece - September 2013  Diego Garcia, Indian Ocean - September 2013  Diego Garcia, Indian Ocean - September 2013  October 2011  August 2011  Norfolk, Virginia - June 2011  Norfolk, Virginia - June 2011  Portsmouth, New Hampshire - May 2011  Groton, Connecticut - August 2009  Groton, Connecticut - August 2009  Point Loma, California - April 2009  USS Helena (SSN 725) in the Arctic in 2009, with a bulge for the side-scan sonar visible on her sail  Arctic Ocean - 2009  with USS Annapolis (far) - Arctic Ocean - 2009  San Diego, California - July 2008  San Diego, California - January2008  Pacific Ocean - December 2007  Naval Base Point Loma, San Diego, California - January 2006  Naval Base Point Loma, San Diego, California - January 2006  Singapore - 2000  1991  1991  1991  1991  1990  1989  commissioning ceremony - July 1987  commissioning ceremony - July 1987  commissioning ceremony - July 1987  commissioning ceremony - July 1987 |
|
|
|
|
|
USS Helena (SSN 725): The fourth Helena (SSN-725) was laid down on 28 March 1985 at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Conn.; launched on 28 June 1986; sponsored by Mrs. Jean C. Busey, wife of Adm. James B. Busey IV, Commander Allied Forces Southern Europe; and commissioned on 11 July 1987 at Naval Submarine Base New London, Conn., Cmdr. Thomas W. Moore in command. On 1 January 2004, Capt. Dennis Murphy, Commander Submarine Squadron 7, Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet, announced that seven submarines - Cheyenne (SSN-773), City of Corpus Christi (SSN-705), Los Angeles (SSN-688), Louisville (SSN-724), Michigan (SSBN-727), Parche (SSN-683), and Tucson (SSN-770) - received the coveted Battle Efficiency award for their operations during the preceding year. “I am very proud of the Squadron 7 submarines,” Murphy said. “Four of the five Squadron 7 submarines deployed in 2003. USS Tucson launched the first Tactical Tomahawk in an exercise from a submarine, and USS Cheyenne was the first U.S. warship to fire Tomahawks into Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.” Helena, Cmdr. Daniel J. Brunk in command, operated with attack submarine Annapolis (SSN-760) - which sailed from Norfolk, Va. - during Ice Exercise (Icex) 2009, in the Beaufort Sea, in the Arctic Ocean about 200 miles north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska (28 February - 28 April 2009). The Navy’s Director of Submarine Warfare (OpNav N87), together with the Arctic Submarine Laboratory, located at Naval Base Point Loma, Calif., planned and coordinated Icex 2009. A temporary tracking range, consisting of a small village constructed and operated by the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory, was built onto the ice to support the exercise. Helena thus faced the added challenge of passing through the Bering Strait during her voyage. A detachment of British Royal Navy (RN) officers also deployed to the camp, and their deployment proved especially poignant because of the loss of two RN sailors during Icex 2007. British attack submarine HMS Tireless (S 88) had operated with Alexandria (SSN-757) during that exercise, but an explosion erupted on board Tireless on 21 March 2007, killing Leading Operator Mechanic Paul McCann, RN, and Operator Maintainer 2 Anthony Huntrod, RN. On 21 March 2009, the people at the camp and on board Helena and Annapolis held a moment of silence in honor of McCann and Huntrod. Adm. Gary Roughead, Chief of Naval Operations, visited the camp overnight on 21 and 22 March. “The Arctic is important to the nation and the Navy because it really is a maritime domain,” Roughead explained. “We have some very fundamental interests - security interests - in the Arctic region. We've been here operating in this part of the world for a long time. The admiral further elaborated: “It gives us the opportunity to test our combat systems, our navigation systems, our communication systems and just what it’s like to operate in this very challenging environment. By coming up here, being part of not just a Navy initiative but a scientific initiative, it really helps out not just the Navy but other communities as well.” source: US Naval History & Heritage Command |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
patches |
|
     |
|
|
|
|
