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USS Memphis (SSN-691), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Memphis, Tennessee.The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 4 February 1971 and her keel was laid down on 23 June 1973.
A civilian shipyard worker confessed to arson. Although repairs were considered, using components from the decommissioned USS Memphis (SSN-691), the estimated cost of $700 million was considered uneconomical in a time of reduced budgets. Miami was decommissioned on 28 March 2014, to be disposed of via the nuclear Ship-Submarine Recycling Program.
USS Memphis (CL-13), was an Omaha-class light cruiser, saw action in World War II; USNS Memphis (T-AO-162), was a Cumberland-class fleet oiler acquired by the US Navy 28 November 1956 and transferred to the US Army in 1967; USS Memphis (SSN-691), is a Los Angeles-class submarine launched 3 April 1976 and decommissioned in 2011
The wreck of one of the most storied US Navy submarines of World War II has been found in the South China Sea eight decades after its last patrol, the Navy’s History and Heritage Command said ...
Last U.S. Navy submarine to be named after a fish until USS Seawolf (SSN-21). SSN-685 Glenard P. Lipscomb: Unique attack submarine design using turbo-electric transmission. SSN-686 L. Mendel Rivers: SSN-687 Richard B. Russell: SSN-688 Los Angeles: Lead boat of her class of 62. Was active for 34 years, 3 months. SSN-689 Baton Rouge: SSN-690 ...
The bodies of the five passengers aboard the Titanic sub that was lost in a “catastrophic implosion” near the wreck may never be recovered from the floor of the Atlantic, says the US Coast Guard.
The dramatic images capture crews unloading pieces of the doomed sub off the Horizon Arctic ship onto dry land at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St John’s, Newfoundland, on Wednesday – more ...
Nautilus: Groton, Connecticut (first atomic powered submarine, 1954) Pampanito (SS-383) : San Francisco, California Razorback (SS-394) : North Little Rock, Arkansas