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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 ...
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 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
The USS New Jersey was the first submarine in the U.S. Navy's fleet designed specifically with women in mind.
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A Saturday ceremony in Sandy Hook Bay welcomed the new USS New Jersey into the U.S. fleet. The first submarine designed to fully integrate male and female sailors, the new ship was commissioned ...
Gray Lady Down (1978) – fictional USS Neptune; Bear Island (1979) – fictional U.S. Science Year team on remote island discover a World War II submarine base to which the SS had dispatched two U-boats with holds full of gold bullion from the conquest of Europe. SS, ex-Nazis, sons of U-boat commanders, Israelis, all try to recover the ...
After returning from her second Western Pacific deployment to San Diego on 29 January 1976, Trout enjoyed a brief unusual duty — repeatedly diving and surfacing while being filmed to portray the fictitious U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS Neptune in the opening credits of the 1978 movie Gray Lady Down.