USS Louisville (SSN-724)
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USS Louisville, a Los Angeles-class submarine, is the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Louisville, Kentucky. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of
The crew of USS Louisville
The Ship-Submarine Recycling Program is the process that the United States Navy uses to dispose of decommissioned nuclear vessels. SRP takes place only at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton,
USS Louisville (SSN-724)
…August 2020, and scheduled for formal decommissioning on 9 March 2021. Like all other recent U.S. submarines, the vessel will be recycled via the Navy's Ship-Submarine Recycling Program. Louisville was decommissioned on 9 March 2021 at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility…
In this image, the superstructure of Virginia has been replaced with containment structures to remove nuclear fuel before entering SRP.
Enterprise under tow to Newport News Shipbuilding to begin the defuelling process in June 2013
The hull of Long Beach moored at Puget Sound awaiting disposal in March 2011
A total of sixteen decommissioned SSNs and SSBNs moored awaiting their fate at Puget Sound in May 1993