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Gray Lady Down also re-used submarine special-effects footage and the large-scale submarine model originally used to portray the fictional submarine USS Tigerfish in the 1968 movie Ice Station Zebra to depict USS Neptune. The US Navy's USS Cayuga appeared in the film as the fictional USS Nassau. The USS Pigeon (ASR-21) and her DSRV were ...
See Kursk submarine disaster. All 118 men on board were killed. All except the bow section was salvaged. K-159: Left to rust for 14 years after being decommissioned, this Soviet-era November-class submarine sank in the Barents Sea on August 28, 2003, when a storm ripped away the pontoons necessary to keep it afloat under tow. Nine of the ten ...
Neptune before substantial modifications. Note almost original bow sheaves and absence of helicopter deck. Cable drums from foredeck. Cable drums from below. Neptune ' s assignments were typically to transport, deploy, retrieve and repair submarine cables, tow cable plow [note 1] and acoustic projectors, and conduct acoustic, hydrographic, and bathymetric surveys. [3]
USS San Francisco in a dry dock, after hitting an underwater mountain 350 miles (560 km) south of Guam in 2005 This article describes major accidents and incidents involving submarines and submersibles since 2000. 2000s 2000 Kursk explosion Main article: Kursk submarine disaster In August 2000, the Russian Oscar II-class submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea when a leak of high-test peroxide ...
Pages in category "United States submarine accidents" ... USS Sturgeon (SSN-637) Submarine incident off Kildin Island; USS Swordfish (SSN-579) T. USS Tang (SS-306)
On 21 June 1942 she was rammed by the Royal Canadian Navy minesweeper HMCS Georgian and sank with all hands after the submarine was mistaken for a German U-boat. The former USS S-49 was sold in 1931 to a private owner for use as a tourist attraction, with the hulk reacquired by the U.S. Navy for "experimental purposes" in 1941.
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USS Manhattan (1863), a monitor in commission from 1864 to 1877, briefly named USS Neptune during 1869; USS Neptune (AC-8), was a collier that carried the first United States troops to Europe in World War I; USNS Neptune, was a Neptune-class cable repair ship, acquired by the US Navy in 1953 as USS Neptune (ARC-2) and scrapped in 2005