ST. MARYS, Ga. – The USS Maine left Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base on Tuesday, the last of five Trident submarines to leave the base since 2002 as part of the Navy’s efforts to balance its Atlantic and Pacific fleets.

The USS Maine was headed to Naval Submarine Base Bangor in Bremerton, Wash. Other submarines – the USS Louisiana, Nebraska, Kentucky and Pennsylvania – previously had been reassigned to the Pacific Northwest sub base.

The Maine, the third Navy vessel to bear the name, was launched in 1994 in Groton, Conn., and commissioned the following year in Kittery, Maine.