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'''USS ''Miami'' (SSN-755)''', a [[Los Angeles class submarine|''Los Angeles''-class submarine]], was the second ship of the [[United States Navy]] to be named for [[Miami, Florida]]. The contract to build her was awarded to the [[Electric Boat]] Division of [[General Dynamics]] Corporation in [[Groton, Connecticut]] on [[28 November]] [[1983]] and her keel was laid down on [[24 October]] [[1986]]. She was [[ship naming and launching|launched]] on [[12 November]] [[1988]] sponsored by Mrs. Jane P. Wilkinson, and [[ship commissioning|commissioned]] on [[30 June]] [[1990]] with Commander Thomas W. Mader in command.
The ''USS Miami'' was the focus of Tom Clancy's first non-fiction book ''Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship'' (ISBN 0-425-13873-9).
[[Image:SSN755crest.gif|thumb|left|150px|Ship's crest]] ''at least 15 years of history go here.''
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