abstract:USS Florida (SSBN-728/SSGN-728), an 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.
Themessagepurportedtoset out a plot toattackanavalbase, apparently Mayport in Jacksonville, Florida, with the aimof achieving the “complete destruction” of the USS John F.
At least two U.S. submarines, the USS Providence and the USSFlorida, also were in the Mediterranean, according to briefing slides shown by the Pentagon.