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Those personal submarines which are available for sale cost from US$16,000 to 2+ Billion USD. A wide range of them is available from 1-person to 34+ occupants, some can go just 12 meters underwater and some can even reach to Mariana Trench. [citation needed] Such submarines can be designed from scratch by the builder or built to available plans.
Austrian company Migaloo has revealed plans for a 165.8-meter private submersible superyacht that can stay underwater for up to four weeks.
The Soviet submarine involved was probably K-211 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky of the Delta III class, which on 23 May 1981 collided with an unknown submarine, identified at the time as an unknown American Sturgeon-class submarine. [15] Sovereign underwent an extensive refit in the mid-1990s and was rededicated in January 1997.
USS Archerfish (SS/AGSS-311) was a Balao-class submarine.She was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the archerfish. Archerfish is best known for sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano in November 1944, the largest warship ever sunk by a submarine.
USS Ling (hull number SS-297) is a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy, named for the ling fish, also known as the cobia.The vessel was built during World War II, but was completed in the final months of the conflict and so saw no action.
The Gruppe Monsun or Monsoon Group was a force of German U-boats that operated in the Pacific and Indian Oceans during World War II.Although similar naming conventions were used for temporary groupings of submarines in the Atlantic, the longer duration of Indian Ocean patrols caused the name to be permanently associated with the relatively small number of U-boats operating out of Penang ...
The long-retired SS United States, the fastest ocean liner ever to cross the Atlantic, left the Delaware Bay on Thursday for its final voyage, after having been anchored to a Philadelphia dock for ...
The sale will be done without the involvement of German companies. [12] South Korea was the only country outside Germany independently offering the Type 209 submarine for sale. Indonesia was also offered two license-built Type 209 submarines manufactured by a group of Turkish (SSM - Undersecretariat for Defense Industries) and German companies ...