Solid Brass USN Honolulu Submarine Plaque Tiki Military Nautical Wood Mounted Stamped Decommissioned Commemorate USS Honolulu Submarine SSN 718 Brass & Wood Plaque Made Colonial Brass Co., Middleboro, MA Name USS Honolulu Namesake Honolulu, Hawaii Awarded 15 September 1977 Builder Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia Laid down 10 November 1981 Launched 24 September 1983 Sponsored by Mrs. Joan B. Clark Commissioned 6 July 1985 Decommissioned 2 November 2007 Stricken 2 November 2007 Homeport Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Motto Maka 'Ala Mau (Hawaiian for "Always on Alert") Fate Disposed of by submarine recycling (except her bow) SC25