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1909 - USS TARANTULA (later B-3) (SS-12) decommissioned at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, SC. TARANTULA operated along the Atlantic coast with the 1st and 2nd Submarine Flotillas on training and experimental exercises just prior to that time.
1918 - PCU R-14 (SS-91) keel laid as R-14 at Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, MA.
1943 - PCU PAMPANITO (SS-383) commissioned USS PAMPANITO (SS-383) at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, NH; Lt. Comdr. Charles B. Jackson, Jr. commanding.
1944 - PCU TIRANTE (SS-420) commissioned USS TIRANTE (SS-420) at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME; Lt. Comdr. George L. Street III commanding.
1959 - USS THREADFIN (SS-410) was rammed by the Greek freighter Nikolas Mikhalos at the entrance to the Suez Canal as both ships were exiting to the Red Sea.
1962 - USS PAMPANITO (SS-383) hull reclassed to Auxiliary Submarine (AGSS-383).
1982 - PCU GEORGIA (SSBN-729) launched at the Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, CT.
1993 - PCU HAMPTON (SSN-767) at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, VA.
1998 - Ex-ARCHERFISH (SSN-678) disposition complete by Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program (NPSSRP) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA.
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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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