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USS Clamagore (SS-343) was a Balao -class submarine, which operated as a museum ship at the Patriot's Point Naval & Maritime Museum outside Charleston, South Carolina from 1979 to 2022. Built in 1945 for the United States Navy, she was still in training when World War II ended. She was named for the clamagore.
USS. Patriot. (PYc-47) USS Patriot (PYc-47), formerly the Katoura, was built in 1930 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in Bristol, Rhode Island United States and purchased by the United States Navy, for $1.00, from Mr. A. Loomis of New York City on 20 September 1940. She was converted for Navy service as a submarine chaser at the ...
Antarctic Peninsula. 69°30′S65°00′W / 69.500°S 65.000°W The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. The Antarctic Peninsula is ...
List of sunken nuclear submarines. Nine nuclear submarines have sunk, either by accident or scuttling. The Soviet Navy lost five (one of which sank twice), the Russian Navy two, and the United States Navy (USN) two. Three submarines were lost with all hands – the two from the United States Navy (129 and 99 lives lost) and one from the Russian ...
Cape Adare. Cape Adare is a prominent cape of black basalt forming the northern tip of the Adare Peninsula and the north-easternmost extremity of Victoria Land, East Antarctica. [1] It is the site of the first confirmed landing and base on Antarctica, performed from the Antarctic (1895) and the Southern Cross (1899), and both with Carstens ...
Russian Civil War. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE FRGS FRSGS (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Born in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland, Shackleton ...
Deception Island is in the South Shetland Islands close to the Antarctic Peninsula with a large and usually "safe" natural harbor, which is occasionally affected by the underlying active volcano. [ 1 ][better source needed] This island is the caldera of an active volcano, which seriously damaged local scientific stations in 1967 and 1969.
1956(1956)–1958: 2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition. International. 1949(1949)–1952: NBSX (Maudheim Expedition) v. t. e. New Swabia (Norwegian and German: Neuschwabenland) was an area of Antarctica explored and briefly claimed by Nazi Germany within the Norwegian territorial claim of Queen Maud Land in early 1939.