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TODAY IN U.S. SUBMARINE HISTORY HOME |
1901 - PCU SHARK (later A-7) (SS-8) keel laid as SHARK at Crescent Shipyard, Elizabethport, NJ.
1919 - PCU S-32 (SS-137) launched at Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA; sponsored by Miss Margaret Tynan.
1923 - PCU S-11 (SS-116) commissioned USS S-11 (SS-116) at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME; Lt. Wilder D. Baker commanding.
1934 - USS S-34 (SS-139) accidental signal cartridge explosion, one died.
1946 - while en route to Panama, USS ARGONAUT (SS-475) collided with USS Honolulu (CL-48) off the eastern coast between New York and Philadelphia during a heavy fog. Both ships sustained minor damage and ARGONAUT continued on to Panama.
1952 - PCU BONITA (ex-K3/SSK-3) (SS-552) commissioned USS K-3 (SSK-3) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA; Lt. Comdr. Eric E. Hopley commanding. She reported to the Pacific Fleet.
1958 - the first Fleet Ballistic Missile flight test was conducted at Point Magu, CA.
1965 - USS BARB (SSN-596) collided with USS SARGO (SSN-583) while at 300 feet, 50 miles from Oahu.
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Welcome aboard! The hyperlinks on any given hull number will take you to a page of more links for that boat or an interesting link if no page of links is available.
These are events for all United States Navy commissioned and some noncommissioned submarines and submersibles.
Sources of major events are at least double verified or the entry doesn't make the cut.
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