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Monday, June 26, 2006

Damaged U.S. submarine to get a new nose

The USS San Francisco was damaged when it ran into an undersea mountain in 2005

At the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, workers are preparing to transplant the nose of a retiring submarine - the USS Honolulu - onto the USS San Francisco, which was damaged when it ran into an undersea mountain in 2005.

"A bow replacement on an operational hull is unique and has never been accomplished before," said Pat Dolan, spokeswoman for Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C.

The operation, scheduled to begin in November, will take nearly two years to complete, but is expected to save taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.

USS Honolulu is on its final deployment. The San Francisco has been in Bremerton since last September, awaiting permanent repairs. Both are Los Angeles-class submarines. The San Francisco is four years older than the Honolulu, but it was overhauled from 2000 to 2002.

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