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At random: USS Irex SS-482 was the first US submarine fitted with an operational snorkel at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 1946.

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fortyrod

Posted 2017-12-29 4:13 AM (#87164)

Great Sage of the Sea

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Subject: 12-29 History

12-29-1943 USS Silversides (SS-236) sinks three Japanese ships and damages a fourth off Palau.

Atlantic 12/29/71: The USS Dace (SSN-607) inadvertently discharges 500 gallons of water
used as coolant for its nuclear reactor into the Thames River at New London, Connecticut,
during a routine water transfer between the submarine and the USS Fulton (AS-11).The Navy
says measurements in the area showed 'no increase in radioactivity of the environment' on the following
day and claims the coolant contains a 'very small amount of radioactivity.

Gil

Posted 2017-12-29 2:06 PM (#87172 - in reply to #87164)

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Subject: RE: 12-29 History

And if the radiation level increased ten fold?

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