SUB ~ Trident Submarine cutaway at missile tubes
The Manoeuvering Room on board HMS SCEPTRE seen as she lays alongside at Devonport dockyard just prior to decommissioning and disposal. Part of the Marine Engineering Department, the Manoeuvring Room houses the equipment which controls and monitors the submarine's nuclear reactor. It is also from where the boat's power and speed is controlled using the throttle, seen centre right.
SSBN-643 George Bancroft. Late 80's
Something big is coming to the shores of Jupiter and Juno beaches.
The bow of the World War II submarine USS Grunion has been discovered 77 years after the sub went missing off the remote Aleutian Islands in Alaska on her first war patrol.
Shore visit for SSBN-633 in Antigua in 1993
Gato Class submarines were designed for long range cruising in the Pacific. With sub-classes Tench and Balao, this was the most prolific sub of the US Navy.
The large, multi-billion dollar deal follows a DoD $203 million modification to an existing deal between the Navy and General Dynamics Electric Boat earlier this year – to begin manufacture of 17 new tactical missile tubes able to fire nuclear-armed Trident II D5 missiles. The Navy has awarded a $5.1 billion contract to General Dynamics […]
Description, history, and photograph(s) of Fleet Submarine USS Plunger (SS-179) in WWII
In 2005, a U.S. Navy attack submarine collided head-on with an undersea mountain at more than thirty miles an hour. Despite the damage the ship sustained and the crew’s injuries, the USS San Francisco managed to limp to her home port of Guam on her own power. The incident was a testament to the design […]
The machinist’s mate then hammered the evidence to smithereens and shot his laptop.
SAIPAN - The submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40) completed a weapons handling exercise involving the transfer of a MK-48 inert training shape to a submarine, Oct. 22. This was the first expeditionary reload Frank Cable has conducted outside of Guam,
80-G-41788: Life onboard USS Cuttlefish (SS 171). Crew quarters are compact, but comfortable. Here during off duty hours, seaman read, shine shoes, or just sit and talk. Photographed June 8, 1943. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/05/10).
Navy leaders are concerned about increased Russian submarine activity in the North Atlantic and Chinese submarine activity in the Pacific. The U.S. homeland is no longer a sanctuary from such threats, they warn.
Road Trip 2010: CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman got a personal tour of the USS North Carolina, a Virgina class nuclear submarine.
