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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.
In all, 35 Shchuka-class submarines were lost, the vast majority during World War II. The last surviving submarines of the class in the Soviet Navy were decommissioned in the mid-1950s and scrapped during the following years, but two submarines of this class (S-121 and S-123), along with two Soviet M-class submarines were supplied to People's ...
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.
In the early 1930s the Soviet government started a massive program of general rearmament, including naval expansion. Submarines were one key point of this program, but existing types were unsatisfactory. The rnew Shchuka-class submarine was satisfactory, but it was designed for shallow Baltic Sea service and lacked true ocean-going capabilities ...
The Soviet Union lost contact with one of its ballistic missile submarines, the K-129, and its 98 crew members in March 1968 while it was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.The cause of the ...
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.
There were 2,460 prisoners (2,389 Italians, 71 Greek) crammed in the cargo hold of the ship to be transported to the Greek mainland along with 204 Germans. At Suda Bay the ship was attacked by United States Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchells and RAF Bristol Beaufighters. An estimated 2,098 POWs drowned. 2,098 Military 1944 Japan
United States Navy: Gato: fleet submarine: 2,424 31 January 1942 Sold for scrap 15 July 1959 Fisalia Regia Marina: Argonauta: coastal submarine: 1,080 5 June 1932 Sunk 28 September 1941 Flasher United States Navy: Gato: fleet submarine: 2,424 25 September 1943 Sold for scrap 8 June 1963 Flier: 18 October 1943 Sunk 13 August 1944 Flounder: 29 ...