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  2. List of submarine and submersible incidents since 2000

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    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 ...

  3. List of submarine classes of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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    Prototype "fleet submarines"—submarines fast enough (21 knots (11 m/s)) to travel with battleships. Twice the size of any concurrent or past U.S. submarine. A poor tandem engine design caused the boats to be decommissioned by 1923 and scrapped in 1930.

  4. USS Thresher (SSN-593) - Wikipedia

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    USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead boat of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in the United States Navy. She was the U.S. Navy's second submarine to be named after the thresher shark . On 10 April 1963, Thresher sank during deep-diving tests about 350 km (220 mi) east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, killing all 129 crew and shipyard ...

  5. Category:United States submarine accidents - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "United States submarine accidents" The following 81 pages are in this category, out of 81 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.

  6. USS Scorpion (SSN-589) - Wikipedia

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    USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class nuclear-powered submarine that served in the United States Navy, the sixth vessel and second submarine to carry that name. Scorpion sank on 27 May 1968. She is one of two nuclear submarines that the U.S. Navy has lost, the other being USS Thresher . [ 4 ]

  7. USS Miami (SSN-755) - Wikipedia

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    USS Miami (SSN-755) was a Los Angeles-class submarine of the United States Navy.She was the third vessel of the U.S. Navy to be named after Miami, Florida. Miami was the forty-fourth Los Angeles-class (688) submarine and the fifth Improved Los Angeles-class (688I) submarine to be built and commissioned.

  8. List of lost United States submarines - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, the U.S. Navy's submarine service suffered one of the highest casualty percentage of all the American armed forces, losing one in five submariners. [3] Some 16,000 submariners served during the war, of whom 375 officers and 3,131 enlisted men were killed, resulting in a total fatality rate of around 22%.

  9. List of submarines of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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    The NR-1 Deep Submergence Craft was a non-commissioned nuclear submarine operated by the United States Navy. Turtle , an American submarine of the American Revolutionary War H. L. Hunley , a human-powered submarine of the American Civil War in the early 1860s, operated by the Confederate States Army .