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USS Alabama (SSBN-731) is the sixth Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, and the seventh United States vessel to be named for the state of Alabama. The boat's motto duplicates the state's motto, Audemus Jura Nostra Defendere ("We dare defend our rights").
USS Alabama (SP-1052), a 69-foot motor boat inspected by the Navy in the summer of 1917 and assigned the designation SP-1052. USS Alabama (BB-60), a South Dakota-class battleship commissioned in 1942, converted to a museum ship in 1964 and now docked in Mobile, Alabama. USS Alabama (SSBN-731), an Ohio-class submarine currently in service.
Crimson Tide is a 1995 American submarine action thriller film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. It takes place during a period of political turmoil in Russia , in which ultranationalists threaten to launch nuclear missiles at the United States and Japan .
USS Alabama is the setting for the 1995 submarine film Crimson Tide. [60] The fictional ballistic missile submarine USS Colorado (SSBN-753) is the primary setting for the ABC television series Last Resort. [61] USS Wyoming is featured in Season 1, Episode 13 of the American television series The Brave. [62]
That was year the U.S. Navy decided to rekindle its effort to find the USS Alligator, which sunk in 1863 off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, after a squall kicked up on the ocean and ...
In May 1962, USS Alabama had been ordered scrapped along with her South Dakota-class sister ships, USS South Dakota, USS Indiana, and USS Massachusetts. [4] Citizens of the state of Alabama had formed the "USS Alabama Battleship Commission" to raise funds for the preservation of Alabama as a memorial to the men and women who served in World War II.
The Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company (ADDSCO) located in Mobile, Alabama, was one of the largest marine production facilities in the United States during the 20th century. It began operation in 1917, and expanded dramatically during World War II ; with 30,000 workers, including numerous African Americans and women, it became the largest ...
The USS Amesbury was at the invasion of Normandy in World War II. Intimate artifact from warship sunk off Key West found stashed in piece of furniture Skip to main content