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K-8 was a November-class submarine of the Soviet Northern Fleet that sank in the Bay of Biscay with her nuclear weapons on board on April 12, 1970. A fire on April 8 had disabled the submarine and it was being towed in rough seas. Fifty-two crewmen were killed attempting the salvage of the boat when it sank.
All of the survivors remain laid-up hulks in Russian naval bases (K-14, K-42, K-115 and K-133 of the Pacific Fleet; K-11 and K-21 of the Northern Fleet). There are plans to convert the first submarine of the class (K-3) into a museum ship in St. Petersburg, but the hulk of the submarine remains in Polyarny due to economic reasons and the ...
USS K-8 (SS-39) was a K-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down by the Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California , under subcontract from Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut .
K-19 was the first submarine of the Project 658 (Russian: проект-658, lit. Projekt-658 ) class ( NATO reporting name Hotel-class submarine ), the first generation of Soviet nuclear submarines equipped with nuclear ballistic missiles , specifically the R-13 SLBM .
The submarine was decommissioned on 12 February 1923 and scrapped in 1931. [12] USS K-8 (SS-39) was laid down on 10 May 1912, launched on 11 July 1914 and commissioned on 1 December 1914. The submarine was decommissioned on 24 February 1923 and scrapped in 1931. [13]
Last conventionally powered submarine built for the US Navy. Laid after Blueback but launched and commissioned before SSN-583 Sargo: SSN-584 Seadragon: First submarine to complete a submerged circumnavigation of the Northwest Passage. SSN-585 Skipjack: Lead boat of a class of 6. First nuclear powered submarine with a teardrop hull. SSRN-586 Triton
Russian Project 877 in the English Channel in 2018 A Russian Kilo-class submarine underway on the surface. The Kilo-class submarines are a group of diesel-electric attack submarines designed by the Rubin Design Bureau [1] [3] [4] in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and built originally for the Soviet Navy.
The K-278 Komsomolets was the Project-685 Plavnik (Russian: проект-685 плавник, meaning "fin", also known by her NATO reporting name of "Mike"-class), nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Soviet Navy; the only submarine of her design class.