The 1983 sinking of Soviet nuclear submarine K-429 was less a freak accident than a case study in naval malpractice. -Ordered ...

The fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut, which struck an underwater mountain in October, sustained damage to its ballast tanks and sonar sphere, according to a Navy evaluation of the vessel in ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Fifteen minutes after reaching test depth, Thresher reported to Skylark, “Experiencing minor difficulties. Have positive up angle. Am attempting to blow [ballast tanks].

The USS Clamagore departed from its home of more than 40 years at Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum. As the World War II-era submarine started its journey to Norfolk, Va. to complete the final ...

What You Need to Know: In 2005, the USS San Francisco, a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, collided with an undersea mountain (seamount) near Guam while traveling at full speed at a ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – Patriots Point Officials say it would’ve cost more than $10 million dollars to repair the submarine, and the decision they made to recycle the vessel costs $2 million.

On 10 April 1963 the USS Thresher (SSN-593), a nuclear-powered submarine, sank 220 miles off the coast of Cape Cod with 129 aboard. My father’s cousin, George Ronald Kroner, a 21-year-old sailor, was ...

Driver after driver craned their necks for a better look as the sleek steel machine passed by them on Highway 61 through Two Harbors. Top hatch, rear propeller, bottom ballast tanks, bright daffodil ...

It was the first ship to visit the North Pole and participated in the Cuban missile crisis blockade. Nautilus is now an exhibit at the Submarine Force Museum in Groton, Connecticut. On January 17, ...