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1919 - PCU R-3 (SS-80) launched at Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, MA; sponsored by Mrs. Charles G. McCord.
1919 - PCU S-23 (SS-128) keel laid as S-23 at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, MA; sponsored by Miss Barbara Sears.
1957 - USS MUSKALLUNGE (SS-262) second decommissioning. Transferred, on loan, under the Military Assistance Program, to Brazil, renamed Humanita (S-14).
1957 - USS PADDLE (SS-263) second decommissioning. Transferred, on loan, under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program, to Brazil; renamed Riachuelo (S-15). Reported as having sunk pierside on or about 30 June 1968.
1965 - President Johnson announced plans to develop Poseidon, a more powerful missile than the Polaris A-3.
1977 - the first launch of a Trident missile at Cape Canaveral, FL. The C-4 was based on an extended-range version of the older Poseidon missile and led to the current and more advanced Trident II D-5 missile. First deployed in 1979, the Trident I was used on 12 Lafayette-class and the first eight Ohio-class submarines.
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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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