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The first Stingray (Submarine No. 13), was a C-class submarine in commission from 1909 to 1919 that was renamed USS C-2 in 1911 and served during World War I. The second USS Stingray (SS-186) was a Salmon-class submarine in commission from 1938 to 1945 that served during World War II.
SS-1 Holland: Unique submarine SS-2 Plunger / A-1: Lead boat of a class of 7 SS-3 Adder / A-2: SS-4 Grampus / A-3: SS-5 Moccasin / A-4: SS-6 Pike / A-5: SS-7 Porpoise / A-6: SS-8 Shark / A-7: SS-9 Octopus / C-1: Lead boat of a class of 5 SS-10 Viper / B-1: Lead boat of a class of 3 SS-11 Cuttlefish / B-2: SS-12 Tarantula / B-3: SS-13 Stingray ...
Inasmuch as the submarine was in the middle of the ocean, with her charts showing over 2,000 fathoms (12,000 ft; 3,700 m) of water, the first thoughts of the commanding officer concerned what new type of antisubmarine measure the enemy was using. Stingray then took precautionary soundings and found no bottom at 2,000 fathoms. Unable to ...
USS Pampanito (SS-383/AGSS-383), a Balao-class submarine, is a United States Navy ship, the third named for the pompano fish. She completed six war patrols from 1944 to 1945 and served as a United States Naval Reserve training ship from 1960 to 1971.
Initially assigned to experimental Submarine Division (SubDiv) Zero, then to SubDiv 4, S-50 was based at New London, Connecticut, and, until mid-June, conducted trials in the Block Island area.
The first boat in name sequence, USS S-1 (SS-105), was commissioned in 1920 and the last numerically, USS S-51 (SS-162), in 1922. Severe production difficulties encountered by one of the contractors threw the production sequence into disarray and the last of the class actually commissioned was USS S-47 (SS-158) in September, 1925. The S class ...
This table contains the final ranks and insignia of the Waffen-SS, which were in use from April 1942 to May 1945, in comparison to the Wehrmacht. [1] The highest ranks of the combined SS ( German : Gesamt-SS ) was that of Reichsführer-SS and Oberster Führer der SS ; however, there was no Waffen-SS equivalent to these positions.
The RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) is a ship-based surface-to-air missile used by the United States Navy to intercept ballistic missiles as a part of Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Although primarily designed as an anti-ballistic missile , the SM-3 has also been employed in an anti-satellite capacity against a satellite ...