One of the STURGEON - class nuclear-powered attack submarines, the USS CAVALLA was the second ship in the Navy to bear the name. Both decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on March 30, 1998, the CAVALLA was subsequently disposed of by submarine recycling at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Wa. Recycling was finished on November 11, 2000.
| General Characteristics: | Awarded: July 24, 1968 |
| Keel Laid: June 4, 1970 |
| Launched: February 19, 1972 |
| Commissioned: February 9, 1973 |
| Decommissioned: March 30, 1998 |
| Builder: Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, CT. |
| Propulsion system: one S5W2 nuclear reactor |
| Propellers: one |
| Length: 302 feet (91.5 meters) |
| Beam: 31.7 feet (9.65 meters) |
| Draft: 29.2 feet (8.9 meters) |
| Displacement: Surfaced: approx. 4,250 tons |
| Displacement: Submerged: approx. 4,700 tons |
| Speed: Surfaced: approx. 15 knots |
| Speed: Submerged: approx. 30 knots |
| Armament: four 533 mm torpedo tubes for Mk-48 torpedoes, Harpoon, Tomahawk, and SUBROC missiles, ability to lay mines |
| Crew: 12 Officers, 95 Enlisted |
General Characteristics 
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