USS San Francisco (SSN-810)

The lead boat of the Virginia class, USS Virginia (SSN-774)
History
United States
Name	San Francisco
Namesake	San Francisco, California
Builder	General Dynamics Electric Boat[1]
Identification	SSN-810
Status	Announced
General characteristics
Class and type	Virginia-class submarine
Displacement	10,200 tons
Length	460 ft (140 m)
Beam	34 ft (10.4 m)
Draft	32 ft (9.8 m)
Propulsion	S9G reactor auxiliary diesel engine
Speed	25 knots (46 km/h)
Endurance	can remain submerged for more than 3 months
Test depth	greater than 800 ft (244 m)
Complement	15 officers 120 enlisted crew
Armament	40 VLS tubes (12 forward VPT; 28 in VPM), four 21 inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes for Mk-48 torpedoes BGM-109 Tomahawk

USS San Francisco (SSN-810) will be a nuclear-powered Virginia-class submarine for the United States Navy, the ninth of the Block V attack submarines and 37th overall of the class. She will be the fourth US Naval vessel named for San Francisco, California, part of the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area, and one of the most densely populated cities in the US, second only to New York City. The first San Francisco (C-5) was a nineteenth-century cruiser, converted to a mine-layer, that saw action during the Spanish-American War and World War I, while the second (CA-38) was a heavy cruiser and one of the most decorated ships of World War II. The third, (SSN-711), also an attack submarine, is a Los Angeles-class boat that after decommissioning, became a moored training ship for the Nuclear Power School in South Carolina.

The submarine's name was announced on 3 October 2023 by Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro while attending Fleet Week in San Francisco.^[2]

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