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Unique submarine. First submarine to complete a submerged circumnavigation of the globe, and the only Western submarine powered by two nuclear reactors. SSGN-587 Halibut: Unique submarine. First and only American nuclear powered submarine designed and built as a guided missile submarine. SSN-588 Scamp: SSN-589 Scorpion: Lost in accident 22 May ...
The French-designed 1862 Alligator, first submarine of the U.S. Navy. During the American Civil War, the Union was the first to field a submarine. The French-designed Alligator was the first U.S. Navy sub and the first to feature compressed air (for air supply) and an air filtration system. It was the first submarine to carry a diver lock ...
The conceptual design of the first nuclear submarine began in March 1950 as project SCB 64. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In July 1951, the United States Congress authorized the construction of a nuclear-powered submarine for the U.S. Navy , which was planned and personally supervised by Captain (later Admiral) Hyman G. Rickover , USN, known as the "Father of ...
HMS Starfish was a first-batch S-class submarine (often called the Swordfish class) built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. Completed in 1933, she participated in the Second World War. During the war, Starfish, part of the 2nd Submarine Flotilla, conducted five uneventful war patrols in the North Sea.
USS Holland (SS-1) was the United States Navy's first submarine, although not its first underwater watercraft, which was the 1775 submersible Turtle.The boat was originally laid down as Holland VI at the Crescent Shipyard of Elizabeth, New Jersey for John Philip Holland's Holland Torpedo Boat Company, and launched on 17 May 1897.
Soviet submarine K-8; Soviet submarine K-19; Soviet submarine K-27; Soviet submarine K-43, Also leased to India as INS Chakra between 1988 and 1991; Soviet submarine K-56; Soviet submarine K-131; Soviet submarine K-219; Soviet submarine K-429
A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. (It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability.) [2] The term “submarine” is also sometimes used historically or informally to refer to remotely operated vehicles and robots, or to medium-sized or smaller vessels (such as the midget submarine and the wet sub).
USS Finback (SS-230), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the finback.Nine of Finback's twelve World War II patrols in the Pacific were designated as "successful"; she received 13 battle stars for her service and is credited with having sunk nearly 70 thousand tons of enemy shipping.