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Warship Wednesday: Oct. 2, 2019, HMs Unlucky Killer No. 13
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53 feet of rock and roll, 119 years on
Here we see Mr. John Philip Holland’s iconic submersible, adopted by the Navy as Submarine Torpedo Boat # 1, partially submerged off the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, in the summer of 1901....
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HMS Urge, found on eternal patrol
HMS Urge, IWM FL 3433 Commissioned 12 December 1940, the British U-class submarine HMS Urge (N 17) served in World War II throughout 1941, seeing extensive action in the Med. Over the course of 20...
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Of Peruvian Periscopes off San Diego
PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 1, 2019) An MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter from the Magicians of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 35 conducts a hoist exercise with the Peruvian navy submarine BAP Angamos...
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Grayback discovered
USS GRAYBACK (SS-208) data plaque, photographed in 1941. NHHC 19-N-24245 The Lost 52 Project, which aims to find all of the U.S. Navy’s WWII submarines still on Eternal Patrol, this week announced they...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019: A Dazzling Flivver
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The more things change
Loading a torpedo in an early U.S. submarine, 1900s. Note monitor in the background: A submarine crewman guiding a torpedo through the loading hatch on USS Adder (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 3), Cavite...
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Not bad for a narcosubmarino
Spanish authorities arrested two citizens of Ecuador near the beach of O Foxo, Galicia on 24 November. Their ride? A scuttled 66-foot narco submarine carrying over three tons of coke. It is believed...
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Bulk Pricing on SSN 9-Packs
Gen Dyn just picked up a huge $22B contract for nine Virginia-class submarines, eight of which are Block V boats with the Virginia Payload Module (VPM), from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2023. VPMs bring an...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019: The Other Tora of Pearl Harbor
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Bad Day for Old Museum Ships
USCGC Bramble WLB 392, back in her pre-2019 Port Huron days The retired U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bramble (WLB-392), a WWII-era veteran of the Bikini tests and the historic 1957 voyage through the...
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Germans getting muscled out of the sub biz?
Sweden has been in the submarine business since the 1900s, first by ordering boats from Italian concerns and then moving into their own domestic designs. Today, Saab is a powerhouse that has marketed...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019: A Tough Christmas in the Lingayen Gulf
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Ersatz Submarine Tending, Coming to an Atoll Near You
With thousands of uninhabited and sparsely inhabited islands, atolls, shoals, and reefs scattered across the Western Pacific, the U.S. Navy is testing out ways to forward supply submarines in what...
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Chester’s announcement, 78 years ago today
At the battered harbor just three weeks after the bloody attack that crippled the U.S. battleship force in the Pacific, Adm. Chester William Nimitz, Sr. (USNA 1905), who cut his teeth on cranky early...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020: That time one of the Kaiser’s U-Boats Went...
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Oh, Canada…
The Canadian Navy has been heavy into the submarine biz for generations. The Canucks got into subs in a weird way when in August 1914, Sir Richard McBride, KCMG, the premier of British Columbia, bought...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020: The Everlasting Albrecht Marsch
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Perishable skills, or the Navy is actually running Atlantic Convoy Ex again
The best tactic to beat the vile threat of U-boats in the Great War was the convoy, be it coastal, trans-oceanic, or whatever. July 1917: A photograph taken from the ersatz gunboat USS Rambler (SP-211)...
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Cuban-born micro submarine spotted in the wild
Esteemed submarine nerd HI Sutton of Covert Shores, writing for Forbes, covers a recent sighting of the rarely-seen Cuban midget submarine, Delfin. Sutton writes, noting that only two images have...
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