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US Navy - Attack Submarine SSN 784 - USS North Dakota |
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Type,
class: Attack Submarine, nuclear propulsion - SSN;
Virginia class (Block III) Builder: General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB), Groton, Connecticut, USA STATUS: Awarded: August 14, 2003 Laid down: May 11, 2012 Launched: September 15, 2013 Christened: November 2, 2013 Commissioned: October 25, 2014 IN SERVICE Homeport: Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut Namesake: State of North Dakota Ships Motto: STRENGTH FROM THE SOIL - REAPERS OF THE DEEP Technical Data: see: INFO > Virginia class Attack Submarine - SSN |
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 entering dry-dock at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine - September 2023  arriving at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine for a 33-month maintenance and modernization - April 2023  returning to Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - October 27, 2022  returning to Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - October 27, 2022  returning to Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - January 31, 2021  returning to Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - January 31, 2021  returning to Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - January 31, 2019  returning to Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - January 31, 2019  returning to Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - January 31, 2019  returning to Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - January 31, 2019  returning to Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - January 31, 2019  returning to Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - January 31, 2019  returning to Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - January 31, 2019  returning to Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - January 31, 2019  returning to Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - January 31, 2019  with dry deck shelter loaded - January 2019  with dry deck shelter loaded - January 2019  Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - April 2018  USS North Dakota arrives at the Trident Refit Facility's Magnetic Silencing Facility (MSF) at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia - August 2017  USS North Dakota arrives at the Trident Refit Facility's Magnetic Silencing Facility (MSF) at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia - August 2017  commissioning ceremony - Groton, Connecticut - October 25, 2014  commissioning ceremony - Groton, Connecticut - October 25, 2014  commissioning ceremony - Groton, Connecticut - October 25, 2014  sea trials - Atlantic Ocean - August 2014  sea trials - Atlantic Ocean - August 2014  sea trials - Atlantic Ocean - August 2014  sea trials - Atlantic Ocean - August 2014  christening cermony at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut - November 2, 2013  christening cermony at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut - November 2, 2013  christening cermony at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut - November 2, 2013  christening cermony at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut - November 2, 2013  christening cermony at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut - November 2, 2013  undated  floating-off at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut - September 2013  September 2013  September 2013  roll out at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut - September 11, 2013  roll out at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut - September 11, 2013  roll out at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut - September 11, 2013  roll out at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut - September 11, 2013  2013  2013  |
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USS North Dakota (SSN 784): |
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North Dakota ... is a U.S. state in the upper Midwest of the country. It is named after the indigenous Lakota and Dakota Sioux, who historically dominated the territory and remain a large community. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south, and Montana to the west. It is believed to host the geographic center of North America, situated in the town of Rugby, and is home to the tallest man-made structure in the Western Hemisphere, the KVLY-TV mast. Of the 50 states, North Dakota is the nineteenth largest in area, but with a population of less than 780,000 as of 2020, it is the fourth least populous and fourth most sparsely populated. The capital is Bismarck while the largest city is Fargo, which accounts for nearly a fifth of the state's population; both cities are among the fastest-growing in the U.S., although half of all residents live in rural areas. The state is part of the Great Plains region, with broad prairies, steppe, and temperate savanna, badlands, and farmland being defining characteristics. What is now North Dakota was inhabited for thousands of years by various Native American tribes, including the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara along the Missouri River; the Ojibwa and Cree in the northeast; and several Sioux groups (the Assiniboin, Yankton, Wahpeton, and Teton) across the rest of the state. European explorers and traders first arrived in the early 18th century, mostly in pursuit of lucrative furs. The United States acquired the region in the early 19th century, gradually settling it amid growing resistance by increasingly displaced natives. The Dakota Territory, established in 1861, became central to American pioneers, with the Homestead Act of 1862 precipitating significant population growth and development. The traditional fur trade declined in favor of farming, particularly of wheat; the subsequent Dakota Boom from 1878 to 1886 saw giant farms stretched across the rolling prairies, with the territory becoming a key breadbasket and regional economic engine. The Northern Pacific and Great Northern railway companies competed for access to lucrative grain centers; farmers banded together in political and socioeconomic alliances that were core to the broader Populist Movement of the Midwest. North Dakota was admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889, along with neighboring South Dakota, as the 39th and 40th states. President Benjamin Harrison shuffled the statehood papers before signing them so that no one could tell which became a state first; consequently, the two states are officially numbered in alphabetical order. Statehood marked the gradual winding down of the pioneer period, with the state fully settled by around 1920. Subsequent decades saw a rise in radical agrarian movements and economic cooperatives, of which one legacy is the Bank of North Dakota, the only state-run bank in the U.S. source: wikipedia |
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