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USS Dolphin (AGSS-555) was a United States Navy diesel-electric deep-diving research and development submarine. She was commissioned in 1968 and decommissioned in 2007. Her 38-year career was the longest in history for a US Navy submarine to that point. She was the Navy's last operational conventionally powered submarine. [2]
USS Dolphin (AGSS-555) USS Drum (SSN-677) ... USS Newport News (SSN-750) USS Norfolk (SSN-714) O. ... Submarine incident off Kildin Island; USS Swordfish (SSN-579) T.
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 ...
Thirty sailors and Marines were injured in a training “incident” off North Florida, including five who required hospitalization, according to the U.S. Navy.. It happened late Wednesday, May 1 ...
The USS Wasp had pulled into Izmir one day earlier, and the Marines were allowed to leave the ship for a break. This story has been updated with additional information. For more CNN news and ...
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Dolphin was the penultimate design in the V-boat series. With a length of 319 ft (97 m) and a displacement only a little more than half that of the previous three large cruiser submarines (1,718 long tons (1,746 t) surfaced, 2,240 long tons (2,276 t) submerged), Dolphin was clearly an attempt to strike a medium between those latter submarines and earlier S-class submarines, which were little ...
The U.S. Navy Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN 22) is seen in an undated file photo provided by the U.S. Navy. / Credit: U.S. Navy/Thiep Van Nguyen II