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USS Pawnee (AT-74/ATF-74) was a Navajo-class fleet tug in the United States Navy. Pawnee was laid down on 23 October 1941 by the United Engineering Company, Alameda, California ; launched on 31 March 1942 and commissioned on 7 November 1942.
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 ...
Pages in category "United States submarine accidents" ... USS Sturgeon (SSN-637) Submarine incident off Kildin Island; USS Swordfish (SSN-579) T. USS Tang (SS-306)
Three crew were killed. She was taken under tow by USS Pawnee ( United States Navy) but capsized and sank on 13 October two miles east of Koli Point. [11] USS Wahoo United States Navy: World War II: The Gato-class submarine was bombed and sunk in the La Perousé Strait, Sea of Japan by Japanese aircraft with the loss of all 60 crew.
This time she was hit by two bombs and two torpedoes and left dead in the water with a severe list. Efforts to bring the ship home were dashed when Yorktown was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-168 on 7 June 1942. USS Enterprise (CV-6) was damaged several times in the war.
The first USS Pawnee was a sloop-of-war in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.She was named for the Pawnee Indian tribe.. Pawnee was laid down in 1858 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard; launched 8 October 1859, sponsored by Miss Grace Tyler; and commissioned 11 June 1860, Commander H. J. Hartstene in command.
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.
The collision occurred about 1:00 am local time (5:00 pm EST, 19 March 2009) as Hartford and New Orleans transited the Strait of Hormuz. The collision inflicted minor injuries on 15 sailors on Hartford and ruptured a fuel tank on New Orleans, spilling 25,000 US gal (95,000 L) of diesel fuel.