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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]
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 ...
USS Dolphin (AGSS-555) USS Drum (SSN-677) E. Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision; F. ... Submarine incident off Kildin Island; USS Swordfish (SSN-579) T. USS ...
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 ...
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 ...
The USS Virginia's propellers got tangled in the nets, reports say, dragging them out to sea. The US Navy has sent several vessels into nearby waters in recent months amid tensions with Russia.
The Tampico Affair began as a minor incident involving United States Navy sailors and the Mexican Federal Army loyal to Mexican dictator General Victoriano Huerta.On April 9, 1914, nine sailors had come ashore to secure supplies and were detained by Mexican forces.
USS Dolphin (PG-24) was a gunboat/dispatch vessel; the fourth ship of the United States Navy to share the name. Dolphin was the first U.S. Navy ship to fly the flag of the president of the United States during President Chester A. Arthur's administration, and the second Navy ship to serve as a presidential yacht.