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List submarines of the United States Navy, by hull number and boat name Hull number Name Notes Turtle: World's first combat submersible. Deployed in 1775. Failed mission to destroy HMS Eagle. Continental Army project. Alligator: Experimental submarine built in 1862. Foundered in bad weather in 1863. First submarine of the United States Navy.
Pre–World War I Class name No. Laid down Last comm. Notes Alligator [1]: 1: 1861: 1862: First submarine in the U.S. Navy. Purpose was to protect wooden ships against ironclads.
In 1920 the U.S. Navy Department established a standard Type and Class letter designation system. "SS" was established as the two-letter class designation for Submarine (first line). In addition to a name, each U.S. submarine carries a Class designation followed by an assigned hull number.
United States: 7,000 United States Navy: 24: 62: 0: 35 submarines retired Rubis class France: 2,670 French Navy: 2: 6: 0: 4 retired Seawolf class (SSN-21) United States: 9,300 United States Navy: 3: 3: 0: 29 originally planned, 3rd in class built substantially modified for special missions Shang class (Type 093) People's Republic of China ...
The US Navy has a total of 18 Ohio-class submarines which consist of 14 ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs), and four cruise missile submarines (SSGNs). The SSBN submarines provide the sea-based leg of the U.S. nuclear triad. Each SSBN submarine is armed with up to 20 Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM).
United States Gato-class:Kuroshio was commissioned on August 15, 1955 and stricken on March 31, 1966. The first Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force submarine. Oyashio: A single unit, launched on May 25, 1959 and stricken on September 30, 1976. The first indigenous submarine of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force. Hayashio class
Fact File: Attack Submarines - SSN. United States Navy. "Fact File: Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarines - SSBN". United States Navy. "Submarine Service: Operations and Support". Royal Navy. "SSBN-726 Ohio-Class FBM Submarines". Federation of American Scientists.
Named after the lead boat, the Sturgeon class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines served with the United States Navy from the late 1960s to the mid-2000s. With a submerged displacement of 4,780 tons, its successors were the 6,920-ton Los Angeles class, the first of which was commissioned in 1976.