USS HYMAN G. RICKOVER SSN 709

SSN 709   HYMAN G. RICKOVER   Rotterdam   15 04 1991                                               G.GYSSELS

SSN 709   HYMAN G. RICKOVER
FLAG : U.S.A.
TYPE : LOS ANGELES - CLASS ATTACK SUBMARINE
LAID DOWN : 24 July 1981
LAUNCHED  : 27 August 1983
COMMISSIONED : 21 July 1984
DECOMMISSIONED : 17 December 2007

She was inactivated on 14 December 2006 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery,Maine for the year long inactivation process. Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register on 17 December 2007.  She departed Portsmouth on 08 April 2009 and arrived at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington on 30 May 2009 for the Nuclear Powered Ships and Submarine Recycling Programme.