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USS Dolphin (AGSS-555) was a United States Navy diesel-electric deep-diving research and development submarine. She was commissioned in 1968 and decommissioned in 2007. Her 38-year career was the longest in history for a US Navy submarine to that point. She was the Navy's last operational conventionally powered submarine. [2]
USS San Francisco in a dry dock, after hitting an underwater mountain 350 miles (560 km) south of Guam in 2005 This article describes major accidents and incidents involving submarines and submersibles since 2000. 2000s 2000 Kursk explosion Main article: Kursk submarine disaster In August 2000, the Russian Oscar II-class submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea when a leak of high-test peroxide ...
USS S-4; USS S-5; USS S-19; USS S-26; USS S-27; USS S-28; USS S-37; USS S-39; USS S-49; USS S-50; USS S-51; USS Sailfish (SS-192) USS Sam Houston (SSBN-609) USS San Francisco (SSN-711) USS San Juan (SSN-751) USS Sand Lance (SSN-660) USS Scorpion (SSN-589) USS Seahorse (SSN-669) USS Stickleback; USS Sturgeon (SSN-637) Submarine incident off ...
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Thirty sailors and Marines were injured in a training “incident” off North Florida, including five who required hospitalization, according to the U.S. Navy.. It happened late Wednesday, May 1 ...
Dolphin was the penultimate design in the V-boat series. With a length of 319 ft (97 m) and a displacement only a little more than half that of the previous three large cruiser submarines (1,718 long tons (1,746 t) surfaced, 2,240 long tons (2,276 t) submerged), Dolphin was clearly an attempt to strike a medium between those latter submarines and earlier S-class submarines, which were little ...
An F/A-18 Super Hornet lands on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower flight deck in April. US Navy photo An F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft was shot down in an apparent case of friendly fire, CENTCOM said.
Kellie Chouest helped in the recovery operations of the stricken USS Dolphin after a flooding and fire of the latter vessel. She also assisted in the recovery of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 voice and flight data recorders, and of USS Monitor 's propeller and shaft.