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The untold story of an Italian WWII submarine sunk off the coast of the United Arab Emirates
June 23, 1940. An enemy submarine arrives off the coast of the modern United Arab Emirates to wreak havoc in the Gulf of Oman.The Luigi Galvani aims to disrupt tanker traffic around the Strait of Hormuz to fuel the British war…
Portsmouth World War I submarine wreck HMS / m D1 receives protected status
Known as HMS / m D1, it was the forerunner of the Royal Navy's patrol submarines and served in WWI.It was built by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness and was the secret prototype of the D-class, the Royal Navy's first diesel-powered…
The Day – Waterford Library presents virtual lecture on Civil War submarine mystery on Tuesday
A reporter expresses concern to author Rachel Lance about the amount of information to be given in a newspaper article on her book "In the Waves - My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine".Lance laughs and says, "Spoiler!!-->…
Documents from the sinking of a Cold War submarine in Maine have been declassified
The Navy will release more information in the coming months, but don't believe the documents will shed new light on the cause of the sinking.
The Navy has started releasing declassified documents from the…
Canada’s secret underwater drone of the Cold War is still alive today
Extra-large autonomous submarines could revolutionize intelligence gathering and underwater espionage. One of these innovative projects is that of the United States Navy Boeing Orc Extra Large Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (XLUUV). It is…
Explorer Tim Taylor’s “Lost 52 Project” Team Discovers Lost Cold War Submarine
NEW YORK, March 10, 2020 / PRNewswire / - Veteran Ocean Explorer and CEO of Tiburon Subsea Tim taylor and his team "Lost 52 Project" added to their list of ocean discoveries with the USS Stickleback (SS 415). The USS Stickleback was lost…
Discovery of a lost Cold War submarine
Veteran Ocean Explorer and Tiburon submarine CEO Tim Taylor and his "Lost 52 Project" team added submarine ocean discoveries to their list USS Stickleback (SS 415). The submarine was lost 62 years ago in nearly 11,000 feet of water and is…
USS Grayback: 75-year-old World War II submarine discovered near Japan | The independent
A 75-year-old mystery has been solved and the families of 80 American sailors lost at sea will now be closed.The USS Grayback has finally been found. He has been hidden from discovery all this time by a single wandering figure.The mystery…
World War II submarine missing for 75 years has been found
It has been 75 years since the USS Grayback disappeared with 80 sailors on board. Now, an organization that searches for sunken WWII submarines has solved the mystery of where it crashed.
Underwater explorer…
Lost WWII submarine built in Barrow discovered after 77 years
The wreckage of a WWII submarine that was built in Barrow was discovered after 77 years.
The U-class submarine HMS Urge went missing in 1942 after apparently striking an enemy minefield.
However, almost…
Researchers unveil crew quarters of Civil War submarine that changed the tide of naval warfare
Over 150 years ago, when the United States used Navy ships that looked more like the USS Constitution than the gigantic super aircraft carriers of today, and the Civil War still waged raging, a glimpse of the future slipped beneath the…
HL Hunley Civil War submarine: new clue could explain its mysterious disappearance
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A broken pipe may help explain why a famous Civil War submarine sank off Charleston, South Carolina over 150 years ago.
The HL Hunley became…
US Navy returns to Cold War submarine flashpoint, but live action could be much further north
US Navy / Comm. Specialist 2nd Class Bobby SiensThe Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Atlantic Ocean, July 8, 2018.The United States and its allies are reassessing their naval operations in Europe and the…
Australian WWI submarine discovered 103 years after mysterious disappearance | The Independent
The wreck of an Allied World War I submarine has been discovered 103 years after it sank off the coast of Papua New Guinea. The fate of the 800-ton ship was Australia's longest-running naval mystery after it disappeared on September 14,…
Scientists solve mystery of American Civil War submarine
Explosion of Hunleyhis own torpedo probably killed his crew instantly.
The Hunley…
Unexplained Civil War submarine sinking finally has an answer
A mystery of the civil war that has lasted more than 130 years finally has an answer. The sinking of the combat submarine HL Hunley, resulting in the death of its eight crew members, perplexed historians and naval researchers for…
HL Hunley: Research examines what killed Civil War submarine crew
There was no major damage to the hull that can be definitively traced until one day the HL Hunley, a 40-foot-long Confederate submarine, sank to the ocean floor off Charleston, in South Carolina, February 17, 1864.A number of theories tried…
Veterans search for a home for a WWII submarine
HACKENSACK, NJ - A group of New Jersey veterans desperately try to save a WWII submarine.
The Navy gave the USS Ling to the group of veterans, who wanted to use it for a naval museum, The New York Times…
Human remains found in American Civil War submarine as it exits 75,000 gallon tank of chemicals
The 40-foot-long ship sank about an hour after becoming the first submarine to sink an enemy warship, killing all eight crew members on boardVideo uploadVideo unavailableThe video will play automatically soon8to cancelPlay nowTHE HUNLEY…
HL Hunley: More clues found in Civil War submarine
(CNN) - Further clues to the HL Hunley mystery are revealed during the conservation of the Civil War submarine.On Wednesday, researchers at a laboratory in North Charleston, South Carolina, unveiled the crew compartment - which had been…
Hidden Beneath the Surface: The Cold War Underwater Collision That Almost Tipped the World Into…
PROVIDEDSSBN James Madison was armed with 16 Poseidon nuclear missiles when it collided with a Russian submarine.It all happened below the surface. It was 1974, when SSBN James Madison, armed with 16 Poseidon nuclear missiles, was…
How was an American submarine sunk during the Civil War recovered?
Never read novels written by the author Clive cussler? Many of them involve scuba diving and recovery of sunken ships.
Cussler doesn't limit his enthusiasm for the sunken treasure to fiction, however. Over the past decades, he has led…
Exploits of a war submarine: “Ghazi”, a Telugu film about the Indo-Pakistani war of 71…
Rana Daggubati talks to TNM about her upcoming film, based on a real-life episode that took place in Visakhapatnam during the Indo-Pakistani War.HPRana's career took a detour Baahubali, and the actor doesn't mince his words when it comes to…
Alfa: the magic weapon of Russian cold war submarines that NATO feared
The Soviet Union started the Cold War well behind the United States in submarine technology. Although the Soviets acquired many of the most advanced German submarine types towards the end of the war, the United States had accumulated a…
British WWII submarine with 71 bodies inside found off the coast of Sardinia | The independent
The sunken wreck of a British WWII submarine with 71 bodies sealed inside has been found by divers off the coast of Sardinia.The submarine P311 mysteriously disappeared 73 years ago in the Mediterranean and was found at a depth of 100…
US to reopen Cold War submarine hunting base in Iceland
AP / FRANCK PREVELA Russian submarine.In a drastic change reminiscent of the Cold War, the United States is seeking to reopen parts of its former military base in Iceland for the express purpose of driving out Russian submarines. The base,…
Scientists bathe Civil War submarine in search of answers
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The Confederate submarine HL Hunley sits in a preservation tank at a laboratory in North Charleston, SC, before being covered with a chemical bath on Thursday, May 1, 2014. Bathing the hand-cranked Hunley in…
Britain’s last surviving WWII submarine HMS Alliance reopens hatches after £ 7million…
Britain's last surviving WWII submarine HMS Alliance reopens hatches after £ 7million refurbishment By Carol Driver for MailOnline Posted: 08:06 BST, March 31, 2014 | Update: 13:07 BST, March 31, 2014 Advertising The HMS!-->…
Civil War CSS Hunley – The Civil War Submarine That Kept Sinking
We sometimes observe that there is a fine line between genius and madness. Military history is replete with examples of men who proved the maxim: "Good initiative son, bad…
New light on the Civil War submarine crew
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Life aboard the Navy’s top-secret Cold War submarine: dismantled NR-1 ship brought back to…
Life aboard the Navy's top-secret Cold War submarine: dismantled NR-1 ship brought back to life for exhibit on its dangerous missions NR-1 dived deeper than any submarine and had a claw for raking the seabedHe mapped the ocean floor and…
The Civil War submarine may have been destroyed by its own torpedo
During the Civil War, the Confederate Army deployed a submarine called HL Hunley. After sinking an enemy ship called USS Housatonic in 1864, the submarine disappeared after reporting a…
Sunken treasure: WWI submarine whose two captains won the Victoria Cross is discovered off the coast…
Sunken treasure: WWI submarine whose two captains won the Victoria Cross is discovered off the coast of Turkey 94 years after its fallThe government wants the site to be preserved as a war grave25 lives were lost when the ship was hit by…