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Year | Date | Historical Events | 1983 | Nov 29 | Contract awarded to the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, VA. | 1985 | Apr 22 | Keel laid down by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, VA. | 1987 | Jun 13 | Launched. Albany was the last US submarine built via the traditional "keel up" ship construction method. Thus, it was the last submarine to "launch" down the shipway.
| 1990 | Apr 7 | Commissioned with CDR. Daryl R. Anderson in command.
| 2004 | Jul 30 | Albany returned to Norfolk, VA., after a 6 month deployment that began in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, then proceeded to the Mediterranean Sea for a NATO exercise, Operation "MEDSHARK/Majestic Eagle."
| 2008 | Sep 28 | Albany is homeported in Norfolk, VA. and is still on active duty. |
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