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This list contains all preserved submarines and submersibles on display, including submarine museum boats, that currently exist as complete boats or as significant structural sections. This list does not contain replicas or wrecks. See List of ship replicas, List of shipwrecks and List of sunken nuclear submarines respectively.
The following is a list of museum ships of the United States military, specifically the United States Navy and the United States Coast Guard. It represents a subset of the list of museum ships comprising museum ships located worldwide.
This is a list of submarines of World War II, which began with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 and ended with the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945. Germany used submarines to devastating effect in the Battle of the Atlantic , where it attempted to cut Britain's supply routes by sinking more merchant ships than Britain ...
Destroyed by Japanese aircraft 10 Dec 1941. First US submarine lost in World War II. SS-196 Searaven: SS-197 Seawolf: Accidentally sunk by US Navy destroyer escort 3 Oct 1944. SS-198 Tambor: Lead boat of a class of 12 SS-199 Tautog: Highest scoring US submarine of World War II. SS-200 Thresher: SS-201 Triton: Sunk 15 April 1943 by Japanese ...
In World War II, the United States Navy used submarines heavily. Overall, 263 US submarines undertook war patrols, [2] claiming 1,392 ships and 5,583,400 tons during the war. [3] [a] Submarines in the United States Navy were responsible for sinking 540,192 tons or 30% of the Japanese navy and 4,779,902 tons of shipping, or 54.6% of all Japanese shipping in the Pacific Theater.
Pages in category "World War II submarines of the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 336 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Torsk: Baltimore Maritime Museum/Historic Ships in Baltimore, Inner Harbor, downtown Baltimore, Maryland (built 1944) Intelligent Whale: National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey, Sea Girt, New Jersey; Fenian Ram: Paterson, New Jersey
Abdül Hamid (the first submarine in the world to fire a live torpedo underwater), HMS Upholder (the most successful Royal Navy submarine of World War II) and the 103,000-ton oil tanker British Admiral (once the world's largest ship) were also built in Barrow, as were a number of ocean liners for Cunard Line, Inman Line, Orient Line and P&O.