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[3] [4] They left Washington for Georgia to replace the decommissioned USCGC Sea Dragon and USCGC Sea Dog. [ 2 ] The submarines require an escort because, while they carry some of the most powerful weapons ever built, they do not mount weapons suitable to protect them from surface threats, like the speedboat that carried a bomb that damaged USS ...
[1] [2] [3] As of 2017, there were two Maritime Force Protection units, both of which were activated in 2007. [1] The first, Maritime Force Protection Unit Kings Bay, is based at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay; a second, Maritime Force Protection Unit Bangor, is based at Naval Submarine Base Bangor. [1]
Submarine Group 10 was commissioned January 1, 1989, and is the senior command at Kings Bay. Group 10 is a subordinate command to Commander Submarine Force U.S. Atlantic Fleet . It exercises command over various commands and units assigned, including operational and administrative control of the Ohio -class submarines based at Submarine Base ...
The company was founded in 1916 as Kings Bay Kull Company with the intention of operating a coal mine. It was later nationalized, and in 1962 the mine closed in the context of a political crisis in Norway known as the Kings Bay Affair (Kings Bay-saken). A research facility was subsequently set up in at Ny-Ålesund, to be run by the company. [4]
The Kings Bay Plowshares are a group of seven Catholic peace activists who broke into the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base and carried out a symbolic act of protest against nuclear weapons. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The name of the action and the wider anti-nuclear Plowshares movement comes from the prophet Isaiah’s command to "beat swords into plowshares."
Submarine Squadron 16 is a United States Navy unit that served in World War II and the Cold War before being deactivated in the 1990s. It was reactivated in 1997 and now is responsible for the maintenance and operation of two guided-missile submarines (SSGNs) and one ballistic-missile submarine (SSBN) based in Kings Bay, Georgia.
The Kings Bay Coal Mining Company was a coal mining operation based in Ny-Ålesund on the Norwegian territory of Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean. Since 1933 it had been a wholly owned crown company, held by the Norwegian government. [2] Between 1945 and 1963, 71 people died in three major accidents in the mines.
Reactivated 1 January 1964 as Marine Barracks, Naval Ammunition Depot, Bangor, Washington. Relocated 23 November 1970 to Keyport, Washington, and redesignated as Marine Barracks, Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport, Washington. Placed under Operational Control of Naval Submarine Base Bangor, Washington, on 1 February 1977.