USS Minneapolis - St. Paul (SSN 708)

USS MINNEAPOLIS - ST. PAUL was the 21^st LOS ANGELES - class attack submarine and the 16^th ship in that class built by Electric Boat in Groton, CT.

General Characteristics:	Awarded: October 31, 1973
	Keel Laid: January 20, 1981
	Launched: March 19, 1983
	Commissioned: March 10, 1984
	Inactivated: June 22, 2007
	Builder: Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, CT
	Propulsion system: one nuclear reactor
	Propellers: one
	Length: 360 feet (109.73 meters)
	Beam: 33 feet (10 meters)
	Draft: 32,15 feet (9.8 meters)
	Displacement: Surfaced: approx. 6,000 tons
	Displacement: Submerged: approx. 6,900 tons
	Speed: Surfaced: approx. 15 knots
	Speed: Submerged: approx. 32 knots
	Armament: four 533 mm torpedo tubes for Mk-48 torpedoes, Harpoon and Tomahawk missiles
	Cost: approx. $900 million
	Crew: 12 Officers, 115 Enlisted

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Crew List:

This section contains the names of sailors who served aboard USS MINNEAPOLIS - ST. PAUL. It is no official listing but contains the names of sailors who submitted their information.

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Accidents aboard USS MINNEAPOLIS - ST. PAUL:

Date	Where	Events
December 29, 2006	Devonport, England	Two sailors are killed and two are injured when they fall overboard while the MINNEAPOLIS - ST. PAUL is getting underway from the harbor of Devonport, England. All four were recovered from the water by fellow crewmembers and British authorities and were taken to a local hospital where two of the sailors were pronounced dead. The accident happened after a week-long port visit to the city of Devonport, England.

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