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USS ALEXANDRIA is the seventh of the 23 improved LOS ANGELES - class nuclear-powered attack submarines and the third ship in the Navy named after the cities in Louisiana and Virginia. During her 2004 deployment, the ALEXANDRIA became the first improved LOS ANGELES - class submarine to circumnavigate the globe in the way she did: Departing Groton, CT., on June 11, 2004, she transited under the Arctic ice to the Pacific, entered the US Central Command's area and returned home via the Suez Canal, Mediterranean, and Atlantic Ocean. During this deployment, the ALEXANDRIA also became the first US nuclear-powered submarine to visit Goa, India.
| General Characteristics: | Awarded: November 26, 1984 |
| Keel Laid: June 19, 1987 | |
| Launched: June 23, 1990 | |
| Commissioned: June 29, 1991 | |
| 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. 6,255 tons | |
| Submerged: approx. 7,102 tons | |
| Speed: Surfaced: approx. 15 knots | |
| Submerged: approx. 32 knots | |
| Armament: Tomahawk missiles from 12 VLS-tubes, four 533 mm torpedo tubes for Mk-48 torpedoes, Harpoon missiles, ability to lay mines | |
| Cost: approx. $900 million | |
| Homeport: Groton, CT | |
| Crew: 12 Officers, 115 Enlisted |
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This section contains the names of sailors who served aboard USS ALEXANDRIA. It is no official listing but contains the names of sailors who submitted their information.
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