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SSN 755 Miami

On 23 May 2012, the USS Miami experienced a fire in the ship's forward compartment while at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. The ship's reactor had been shut down for over 2 months prior to the incident and remained in a safe and stable condition throughout the event. The nuclear propulsion spaces were physically isolated from the Forward Compartment early during initial response. There were also no weapons on board in the torpedo room. The fire and subsequent damage was limited to the forward compartment spaces only which includes crew living and command and control spaces. The fire spread to spaces within the submarine that were difficult to access and those confined spaces made it challenging for fire-fighters to combat the blaze. Seven people were injured during the fire-fighting response, but their injuries were minor in nature. A full investigation began immediately to determine the cause of the fire.

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.