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23 May 1939. Foundered on test dive; raised and renamed Sailfish. Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire. Additionally: G-2, decommissioned as a target, flooded and sank unexpectedly 30 July 1919 in Two Tree Channel near Niantic, Connecticut with the loss of three crew. S-48 foundered 7 December 1921 in 80 feet (24 m) of water on a pre-commissioning dive.
collision. On 9 February 2001, about nine nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) south of Oahu, Hawaii, in the Pacific Ocean, the United States Navy (USN) Los Angeles -class submarine USS Greeneville (SSN-772) collided with the Japanese fishery high-school training ship Ehime Maru (えひめ丸) from Ehime Prefecture. In a demonstration for some VIP ...
USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class nuclear-powered submarine that served in the United States Navy, and the sixth vessel, and second submarine, of the U.S. Navy to carry that name. Scorpion was believed to have sunk on 27 May 1968. She is one of two nuclear submarines the U.S. Navy has lost, the other being USS Thresher. [4]
List of sunken nuclear submarines. Nine nuclear submarines have sunk, either by accident or scuttling. The Soviet Navy lost five (one of which sank twice), the Russian Navy two, and the United States Navy (USN) two. Three submarines were lost with all hands – the two from the United States Navy (129 and 99 lives lost) and one from the Russian ...
First submarine of the United States Navy. Intelligent Whale. Experimental submarine built in 1863, acquired by the US Navy in 1869 and abandoned in 1873. DSV-0. Trieste. First submarine which reached the Challenger Deep by Swiss Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh in 1960. DSV-1.
1 × 5-inch (127 mm) / 25 caliber deck gun [ 6 ] Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. USS Tang (SS-306) was a Balao -class submarine of World War II, the first ship of the United States Navy to bear the name Tang. She was built and launched in 1943, serving until being sunk by her own torpedo off China in the Taiwan Strait on 24 October 1944.
USS. Grayback. (SS-208) USS Grayback (SS-208), a Tambor -class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the lake herring, Coregonus artedi. She ranked 20th among all U.S. submarines in total tonnage sunk during World War II, with 63,835 tons, and 24th in number of ships sunk, with 14.
UPDATED: The U.S. Coast Guard has located “likely human remains” from the Titan submersible, and will be transporting the evidence back to the United States, the Associated Press said Wednesday.