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At random: NAUTILUS has long been touted as the first Nuclear powered submarine. In fact, she was the first nuclear powered "anything". Nothing that moves was ever propelled by nuclear power before NAUTILUS.

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fortyrod

Posted 2018-04-11 3:42 AM (#88109)

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Subject: 4-11 accidents/history

Atlantic 04/11/62: Fire breaks out in the rudder section of the USS Thomas A. Edison (SSBN610) at Norfolk, Virginia. The fire is caused by the heat from a workman's acetylene torch and is brought under control within 30 minutes.

Pacific 04/11/68: A Soviet diesel-powered Golf class ballistic missile submarine sinks about 750 miles northwest of the island of Oahu, Hawaii, in about 16,000 feet of water, killing approximately 80. In late March 1975 numerous papers carry stories on the CIA's attempt,called 'Project Jennifer,' to raise the submarine in the summer of 1974 using the specially constructed Glomar Explorer deep-water salvage ship. Part of the submarine is raised on 4 July 1974. The submarine was carrying three nuclear-armed ballistic missiles and unnamed official sources are quoted as saying the evidence also suggests that nuclear-tipped torpedoes were on board.

Atlantic 04/11/72: The USS Benjamin Franklin (SSBN-640) collides with and sinks a tugboat at the General Dynamics Electric Boat Division docks at Groton, Connecticut. The submarine, being overhauled at the shipyard, was not damaged.

USS Tirante was sold to United Minerals and Alloys of New York, United States for scrapping.

Ric

Posted 2018-04-11 8:23 AM (#88110 - in reply to #88109)

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Subject: RE: 4-11 accidents/history

This is also the day the US Navy bought the the Submarine Holland named for its inventor John P Holland. Oct 12, 1900 the US Navy commissioned it into the US Navy as its first Commissioned submarine..
Happy Birthday Submarine Service!!!

GaryKC

Posted 2018-04-11 11:18 AM (#88112 - in reply to #88109)

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Subject: RE: 4-11 accidents/history

Tusk (SS-426) was laid down on 23 August 1943 at Philadelphia, Pa., by the Cramp Shipbuilding Co.; launched on 8 July 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Carolyn Park Mills; and commissioned on 11 April 1946, Comdr. Raymond A. Moore in command.

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