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Turtle, an American submarine of the American Revolutionary War; H. L. Hunley, a human-powered submarine of the American Civil War in the early 1860s, operated by the Confederate States Army. The United States Navy operated several captured U-boats for publicity and testing purposes. Some were commissioned into the Navy.
USS Columbus (SSN-762) is a Los Angeles-class nuclear powered fast attack submarine and the second vessel of the United States Navy to be named for Columbus, Ohio.The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut, on 21 March 1986 and her keel was laid down on 9 January 1991.
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.
Submarines have been active component of the US Navy ever since. The boat was developed at Lewis Nixon's Crescent Shipyard located in Elizabeth, New Jersey. This pioneering craft was in service for 10 years and was a developmental and trials vessel for many systems on other early submarines.
The US Navy has a total of 18 Ohio-class submarines which consist of 14 ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs), and four cruise missile submarines (SSGNs). The SSBN submarines provide the sea-based leg of the U.S. nuclear triad. Each SSBN submarine is armed with up to 20 Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM).
USS Benjamin Franklin (SSBN 640), the lead ship of her class of ballistic missile submarine, was the only submarine of the United States Navy to be named for Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. a
Ships sunk by American submarines (1 C, 188 P) Submarine museums in the United States (8 P) Submarines of the United States Navy (5 C, 61 P) U.
First United States Navy of America submarine. American Diver: Horace Lawson Hunley: Jan 1863: Feb 1863: Built for the Confederate States Navy, also known as Pioneer II. It sank in Mobile Bay. Plongeur: Siméon Bourgois: 16 Apr 1863: 2 Feb 1872: Built for the French Navy, converted to water tanker in 1873 and sold for scrap in 1937. H. L ...