Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Project Azorian (also called "Jennifer" by the press after its Top Secret Security Compartment) [1] was a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) project to recover the sunken Soviet submarine K-129 from the Pacific Ocean floor in 1974 using the purpose-built ship Hughes Glomar Explorer.
English: Among the contents of the recovered section of K-129 were the bodies of six Soviet submariners. They were given a formal military burial at sea on September 4, 1974. DCI Robert Gates presented a film of the burial ceremony to Russian President Boris Yeltsin in 1992.
Project 629A submarine. The keel of K-129 was laid down on 15 March 1958 at Komsomolsk-on-Amur Shipyard No. 132.She was launched on 16 May 1959, with her acceptance certificate signed on 31 December 1959, and assigned to the 123rd Brigade, 40th Division of the Soviet Pacific Fleet at Vladivostok.
The Soviet submarine K-129 carried nuclear ballistic missiles when it was lost with all hands, but as it was a diesel-electric submarine, it is not included in the list. (K-129 was partly recovered by the U.S. Project Azorian.) The two USN submarines belonged to Submarine Force Atlantic, in the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
These Russian or Soviet submarines either suffered extensive crew casualties or were entirely lost to enemy action or to "storm or perils of the sea." A dagger (†) indicates that the boat was lost. A dagger (†) indicates that the boat was lost.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
One of the most dangerous incidents at sea during the Cold War took place on this day 36 years ago in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The Soviet Navy submarine K-219 caught fire and ultimately ...
It’s the first combat loss of a Russian/Soviet submarine to enemy fire since World War II, and the first disabled by enemy fire from any nation in 41 years. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us.