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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 .
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 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.
The USS New Jersey was the first submarine in the U.S. Navy's fleet designed specifically with women in mind.
The chorus of the hit song "Deacon Blues", by Steely Dan, ends with: "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.
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]
In May 1962, USS Alabama had been ordered scrapped along with her South Dakota-class sister ships, USS South Dakota, USS Indiana, and USS Massachusetts. [4] Citizens of the state of Alabama had formed the "USS Alabama Battleship Commission" to raise funds for the preservation of Alabama as a memorial to the men and women who served in World War II.