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TODAY IN U.S. SUBMARINE HISTORY HOME |
1915 - PCU N-4 (SS-56) keel laid as N-4 at Lake Torpedo Boat Company, Bridgeport, CT.
1931 - USS S-3 (SS-107) decommissioned; laid up at the Reserve Fleet at League Island, PA.
1945 - USS LANCETFISH (SS-296) decommissioned after she sank alongside Pier 8 at the Boston Navy Yard because a workman opened the inner and outer doors on one of her after torpedo tubes simultaneously. She was raised 8 days later. LANCETFISH holds the record for the shortest commissoned lifetime of any U.S. submarine (about 41 days).
1953 - USS HARDHEAD (SS-365) second commissioning at New London, CT, following her GUPPY conversion which included streamlining, installation of a snorkel breathing apparatus and larger storage batteries.
1975 - USS DACE (SSN-607) collided with a fishing vessel while surfaced in the Narraganset Bay area off RI. There was no reported damage to the submarine.
1995 - Ex-THEODORE ROOSEVELT (SSBN-600) disposition complete by Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program (NPSSRP) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA.
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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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