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USS Drum (SSN-677), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the drum, also known as the croaker or hardhead, any of various fishes of the Sciaenidae family, capable of making a drumming noise and best known on the Atlantic coast of North America.
On 31 October 1983, K-324 snagged the US frigate USS McCloy's towed sonar array cable [2] 282 miles (454 km) west of Bermuda, causing damage to the submarine's propeller. The submarine was towed to Cienfuegos , Cuba for repairs by a Soviet salvage ship beginning on 5 November. [ 3 ]
USS Dolphin (AGSS-555) USS Drum (SSN-677) E. Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision; F. USS F-1; ... USS Hartford and USS New Orleans collision; USS Hartford grounding;
USS Drum (SS-228) is a Gato-class submarine of the United States Navy, the first Navy ship named after the drum, a type of fish. Drum is a museum ship in Mobile, Alabama, at Battleship Memorial Park. Drum was the twelfth of the Gato class but was the first completed and the first to enter combat in World War II. She is the oldest of her class ...
Lost in collision on 17 Dec 1917. SS-21 Barracuda / F-2: SSN-21 Seawolf: Lead boat of a class of three. Commissioned 1997 ... USS Drum (SS-228) - Battleship Memorial ...
An accident with a commercial ship killed seven sailors and crippled the $1.8 billion destroyer.
The event was covered up by the Reagan Administration and never made public, though it nearly cost the lives of the sailors on USS Drum. [13] [page needed] The incident was declassified and disclosed by the Clinton Administration in February 1993. On 21 March 1984, K-314 collided with the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk in the Sea of Japan ...
A mid-air collision between a Lockheed C-130 Hercules and a General Dynamics F-16D Fighting Falcon caused a ground crash at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina. The F-16 hit and destroyed a Lockheed C-141 Starlifter parked on the tarmac, and flaming wreckage careened into paratroopers preparing for a practice drop, killing 24 and injuring many ...