Nearly a dozen sailors were injured when a USN nuclear powered attack submarine hit an identified submerged object in the South China Sea a few weeks ago. The Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarine USS Connecticut SSN-22 was involved in an underwater collision while operating in international…
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As a teenager I was a “gear-head” and a street racer on the highways and byways of North Jersey having ran a ’66 GTO built to the hilt and later-on an SS-396 Chevelle. Next it was piloting a 4200-ton Attack submarine beneath the waves, and…
Cold War era Soviet submarines frequently suffered calamitous disasters like those that plagued the Soviet Union’s Project 627 boats. And they were often their own worst enemy.The United States Navy launched the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine the USS Nautilus SSN-571 in 1954 that revolutionized undersea…
My service in the USN Submarine Service spanned 1969 to 1973. Upon my graduation from Basic Enlisted Submarine School at new London CT in December 1969 I had the distinct honor and privilege to be assigned to the Pre-commissioning crew of the Nuclear Attack submarine…
USS Skipjack SSN-585 was the lead ship of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines and the third ship of the United States Navy to be named after the skipjack, a streamlined, fast-swimming pelagic fish common in tropical waters throughout the world.Her keel was laid down…
USS Albacore AGSS-569 was a unique experimental submarine that pioneered the teardrop hull design also referred to as the “Albacore hull” of modern submarines. The innovative design was based on the “Lyon Shape” named for Hilda Lyon, a streamlined design originally used for airships. She…
My beautiful home state of South Carolina boasts 187 miles of Atlantic coastline renowned as the Lowcountry and Just off our sand beaches lays one of its most striking features, the Sea Islands; an extended string of twenty-five barrier islands that transform constantly with the…
I’ve had a lifelong love for the United States Navy and the “The Silent Service” in particular, and serving there has been my proudest accomplishment. My patriotism for America is rooted in my childhood when mom would bring me to watch the parades on the…
Most of the public have seen TV and movie scenes of a submarine being dived but aren’t privy to the actual mechanics and procedures of how it’s done. Typically, all we are shown is a camera-shot of the Captain ordering the dive of the boat…
The term “nuclear” or “atomic” submarine generally denotes a submarine that is powered by nuclear propulsion generated by a reactor. The performance advantages of nuclear submarines over “conventional” diesel-electric submarines are considerable in that nuclear propulsion, being entirely independent of the necessity for combustion air…