SSN 755 Miami
The contract to build SSN 755 was awarded on 11/28/1983 and her keel was laid on 10/24/1986. She was launched on 11/12/1988 and she was commissioned on 06/30/1990.
The Miami took part in a test firing of a Tomahawk cruise missile on September 18, 2002 while it was off the coast of Florida in the Jacksonville area.
The First Miami
USS Miami, a 730-ton "double-ender" side-wheel gunboat, was built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania. Commissioned on 29 January 1862, she was sent to the Gulf of Mexico to participate in the campaign against New Orleans. Once that city was captured, Miami operated in the Gulf and the Mississippi river until September 1862, when she was transferred to the Atlantic. During the next two years, Miami was employed in the North Carolina Sounds area, participating in a number of actions. On 19 April 1864, she engaged the Confederate ironclad Albemarle, a battle that resulted in the death of Miami's Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Charles W. Flusser. Later in 1864, she shifted to the James River, Virginia, and spent the remainder of the Civil War in that area. USS Miami was decommissioned in May 1865 and sold the following August. From then until 1869, she was employed as a commercial vessel.
