About The USS New Jersey (SSN-796)
Senior Staff
CO: CDR Joseph (Joe) Spinks
XO: LCDR Phil Jones
Chief of the Boat: STSCS(SS) Hamilton T. Felt
The Boat
- The submarine is a Virginia-class (Block 4) nuclear attack submarine
- Designed for a broad spectrum of open-ocean and littoral missions
- Conceived as a less expensive alternative to the Seawolf-class attack submarines, designed during the Cold War era
- Replacing older Los Angeles-class submarines
- Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia
- Displacement: 7,800 tons
- Length: 377 ft (115 m)
- Beam: 34 ft (10.4 m)
- Draft: 32 ft (9.8 m)
- Complement: 15 officers and 120 enlisted personnel