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USS Alabama (SSBN-731) is the sixth Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, and the seventh United States vessel to be named for the state of Alabama. The boat's motto duplicates the state's motto, Audemus Jura Nostra Defendere ("We dare defend our rights").
Crimson Tide is a 1995 American submarine action thriller film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. It takes place during a period of political turmoil in Russia , in which ultranationalists threaten to launch nuclear missiles at the United States and Japan .
In the 1995 drama film Crimson Tide, the Chief of the Boat aboard USS Alabama plays a crucial role in the film's plot, depicted as being, alongside the captain and executive officer, among the most influential personnel aboard.
USS Alabama (SP-1052), a 69-foot motor boat inspected by the Navy in the summer of 1917 and assigned the designation SP-1052. USS Alabama (BB-60), a South Dakota-class battleship commissioned in 1942, converted to a museum ship in 1964 and now docked in Mobile, Alabama. USS Alabama (SSBN-731), an Ohio-class submarine currently in service.
In 1993 while Toti was serving as executive officer (second in command) of the submarine USS Florida (SSBN-728) Gold Crew, a group of filmmakers from Hollywood Pictures including Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson embarked in USS Florida to conduct research into the storyline of a film to be titled Crimson Tide, about another Trident submarine ...
USS Alabama is the setting for the 1995 submarine film Crimson Tide. [60] The fictional ballistic missile submarine USS Colorado (SSBN-753) is the primary setting for the ABC television series Last Resort. [61] USS Wyoming is featured in Season 1, Episode 13 of the American television series The Brave. [62]
Crimson Tide (1995) – USS Alabama; Down Periscope (1996) – comedy directed by David S. Ward, depicting fictional USS Stingray (SS-161) Peculiarities of the National Fishing (1998) Phantom: The Submarine (1999), about fictional South Korea's first nuclear-powered submarine Phantom.
The hit song Deacon Blues, by Steely Dan, says "They call Alabama the Crimson Tide... call me Deacon Blues". "Deacon Blues" itself is a football reference, having originally been Deacon Jones but was renamed to avoid legal troubles. [38] The 1995 movie Crimson Tide depicts a mutiny on a submarine, USS Alabama.