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List of sunken nuclear submarines. Nine nuclear submarines have sunk, either by accident or scuttling. The Soviet Navy lost five (one of which sank twice), the Russian Navy two, and the United States Navy (USN) two. Three submarines were lost with all hands – the two from the United States Navy (129 and 99 lives lost) and one from the Russian ...
USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class nuclear-powered submarine that served in the United States Navy, and the sixth vessel, and second submarine, of the U.S. Navy to carry that name. Scorpion was believed to have sunk on 27 May 1968. She is one of two nuclear submarines the U.S. Navy has lost, the other being USS Thresher. [4]
Project Azorian (also called "Jennifer" by the press after its Top Secret Security Compartment) [1] was a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) project to recover the sunken Soviet submarine K-129 from the Pacific Ocean floor in 1974 using the purpose-built ship Hughes Glomar Explorer. [2][3] The 1968 sinking of K-129 occurred about 1,560 ...
Fifty-two submarines of the United States Navy were lost during World War II, all but one, Dorado (SS-248), were lost in the Pacific theater of operations. [5] Two – Dorado (SS-248) and Seawolf (SS-197) – were lost to friendly fire (though there is speculation that the Dorado may have struck a German mine), at least three more – Tulibee ...
For other uses, see K-129 (disambiguation). K-129 was a Project 629A (Russian: проект 629А, proyekt 629A; NATO reporting name Golf II – class) diesel-electric -powered ballistic-missile submarine that served in the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Navy. It was one of six Project 629 strategic ballistic-missile submarines assigned to the ...
USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine and on 3 August 1958 became the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole. Her initial commanding officer was Eugene "Dennis" Wilkinson, a widely respected naval officer who set the stage for many of the protocols of today's Nuclear Navy ...
K-278 upon deployment on 1 January in 1986. The K-278 Komsomolets was the Project-685 Plavnik (Russian: проект-685 плавник, meaning " fin ", also known by her NATO reporting name of "Mike"-class), nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Soviet Navy; the only submarine of her design class. In the inventory of the Soviet military, K ...
Unique submarine. First submarine to complete a submerged circumnavigation of the globe, and the only Western submarine powered by two nuclear reactors. SSGN-587 Halibut: Unique submarine. First and only American nuclear powered submarine designed and built as a guided missile submarine. SSN-588 Scamp: SSN-589 Scorpion: Lost in accident 22 May ...