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Unit/Organization Information
  • USS Florida SSGN 728
Location
Coin Location: 11N5
Homebase: King's Bay, Georgia
Deployment: Indian & Mediterranean Oceans
Additional Information
Date Acquired: 12 April 2016
Donated by: CPT Nathan H. Martin, Commanding
Copies: 1 of 1

C005605

Location: 11N5

Coin: Command

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Narrative

Round shaped coin, brass in color, 1 3/4 inches in Diameter.

Journal - Page - Line 13

USS Florida (SSGN-728), an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, is the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the 27th state. She was commissioned with the hull designation of SSBN-728; with her conversion to a cruise missile submarine, she was re-designated SSGN-728.