PRINTER'S NO. 1475
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
284
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY IOVINO, PHILLIPS-HILL, MUTH, SCAVELLO, STREET,
BARTOLOTTA, FONTANA, GORDNER, BROWNE, DINNIMAN, BLAKE,
SCHWANK, COLLETT, L. WILLIAMS, COSTA, HUGHES, BREWSTER AND
HUTCHINSON, JANUARY 27, 2020
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, JANUARY 27, 2020
A RESOLUTION
Commemorating the decommissioning of USS Pittsburgh (SSN 720) in
Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, USS Pittsburgh was commissioned on November 23,
1985, as a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered fast-attack
submarine; and
WHEREAS, Los Angeles-class submarines dive to depths of 650
feet, travel at speeds of more than 25 knots and carry 25
torpedo tube-launched weapons, including Tomahawk cruise
missiles and Harpoon missiles; and
WHEREAS, USS Pittsburgh had a crew of 150 and completed more
than 1,000 dives, a rare milestone in the United States Navy;
and
WHEREAS, USS Pittsburgh is the fourth vessel to be named
after the City of Pittsburgh in the history of the United States
Navy; and
WHEREAS, The first Pittsburgh-named vessel was an ironclad
gunboat commissioned in 1862, which served during the American
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