The Navy’s early experience with submarines was a constant drumbeat of human tragedy. While looking for lost relics deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, mere miles from the coast of San Diego, California, ...

The USS F-1's wreck, seen in a photogrammetric reconstruction drawn from several photos taken of it. After more than 100 years, we have the first actual image of the wreck of a sunken U.S. Navy ...

The end of the Cold War resulted in a premature end for the promising and heavily armed Seawolf-class of submarines, capable boats that arguably would have been continued if Pentagon decision-makers ...

Submarines are cool, there's no better way to put it. They're boats that travel underwater, and since military ones don't so much as have a single porthole, they use echo location to navigate. One of ...

Seemingly from a James Bond film or a favorite Science Fiction novel, aircraft-carrying submarines did indeed exist and were deployed by several nations. Its late 1945, at around 03.00 hours off the ...

Mechanically reproduced from typescript, with original and reproduced photographs, facsimiles, maps, and portraits. "The materials contained in this brochure were collected by Mr. Eustace Williams ...

What You Need to Know: On April 10, 1963, the USS Thresher, a nuclear-powered submarine, tragically sank during deep-diving tests 220 miles off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. All 129 crew ...

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