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Down Periscope began shooting on May 6, 1995, and finished on July 27. [4] USS Pampanito, a Balao-class submarine from World War II, now a museum ship and memorial in San Francisco, played the part of USS Stingray. The nearby Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet stood in for Naval Station Norfolk.
Two submarines of the United States Navy have been named USS Stingray for the stingray, a large ray with a whip-like tail and sharp spines capable of inflicting severe wounds: 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 Boatniks (1970) – comedy directed by Norman Tokar, depicting a salami in a submarine torpedo tube; Assault on the Wayne (1971) – fictional missile submarine USS Wayne (also named in The Spy Who Loved Me) The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) – American, British and Soviet submarines; Gray Lady Down (1978) – fictional USS Neptune
Stingray then fired four more torpedoes at the damaged cargo ship that quickly sent Ikushima Maru to the bottom. On the afternoon of 8 April, while patrolling north of the Marianas, Stingray bounced off a large submerged object at a depth of 52 feet (16 m), lifting the submarine three or four feet (0.91 or 1.22 m). Inasmuch as the submarine was ...
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.
Amazing footage has emerged of a squid attacking a submarine. Greenpeace posted a video online Friday showing the giant squid attacking the underwater vessel during a recent excursion.
Educational videos of a submarine imploding have racked up millions of views on TikTok amid the search for the missing Titanic submersible in the Atlantic Ocean where ‘debris’ was uncovered ...
Also, "periscope feather" (the wave created by the snorkel or periscope moving through the water) can be spotted in calm seas. During the early months of the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II, British ships using the radar set Model 271 were able to detect the periscope of a submerged submarine at a distance of 800 m (0.50 mi) during tests ...