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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 ...
By January 1911 the Navy had 20 submarines built: Seven A-class submarine, Three B-class submarine, five C-class submarine, three D-class submarine, and two E-class submarines. United States F-class submarine were built by the Electric Boat in 1909. The first two, USS F-1 (SS-20) and *USS F-2 (SS-21) were built by Union Iron Works.
USS Alligator (1862) – U. S. Navy submarine launched a year before Hunley; The American Turtle – built in 1775, the world's first submersible with a documented record of use in combat; French submarine Plongeur – launched a few months before Hunley; Peral Submarine – 1888 submarine from Spain, the first to be powered by electric batteries
USS Alabama (SSBN-731) is the sixth Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, and the seventh United States vessel to be named for the state of Alabama. The boat's motto duplicates the state's motto, Audemus Jura Nostra Defendere ("We dare defend our rights").
The USS Tang was handed over to the Navy on November 30, 1943. The USS Tang was built in the Mare Island Naval Shipyard as part of a massive outfitting of the US Navy with Balao-class submarines.
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.
The Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company (ADDSCO) located in Mobile, Alabama, was one of the largest marine production facilities in the United States during the 20th century. It began operation in 1917, and expanded dramatically during World War II ; with 30,000 workers, including numerous African Americans and women, it became the largest ...
American Diver, also known as the Pioneer II, was a prototype submarine built for the Confederate States of America military. It was the first successor to the Pioneer. The Diver was invented and built by the same consortium that built the Pioneer in New Orleans. It was composed of Horace Lawson Hunley, James McClintock, and Baxter Watson.