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Before those orders could be carried out the flooding reached a point beyond recovery and on 6 October 1986 the K-219 sank to the bottom of the Hatteras Abyssal Plain [11] at a depth of about 6,000 m (18,000 ft). Britanov abandoned ship shortly before the sinking. K-219 's full complement of nuclear weapons was lost along with the vessel.
The Soviet Navy submarine K-219 caught fire and ultimately sank, killing three of her crew. ... K-219 had a maximum dive depth of 1,029 feet and a crew of approximately 120.
The Soviet submarine K-129 carried nuclear ballistic missiles when it was lost with all hands, but as it was a diesel-electric submarine, it is not included in the list. (K-129 was partly recovered by the U.S. Project Azorian.) The two USN submarines belonged to Submarine Force Atlantic, in the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
The lead boat K-137 Leninets received its honorific name on 11 April 1970, two and one half years after being commissioned. One Yankee-class submarine, K-219, was lost on 6 October 1986 after an explosion and fire on board.
K-19 was the first submarine of the Project 658 (Russian: проект-658, lit. Projekt-658 ) class ( NATO reporting name Hotel-class submarine ), the first generation of Soviet nuclear submarines equipped with nuclear ballistic missiles , specifically the R-13 SLBM .
K-222 was the sole Project 661 "Anchar" (Cyrillic: Анчар) (NATO reporting name: Papa class) nuclear-powered cruise-missile submarine of the Soviet Navy during the Cold War. Although the Soviets saw K-222 as an unsuccessful design, upon completion it was the world's fastest submarine and the first to be built with a titanium hull.
Since K-129 ' s missiles were housed in the sail, much less structural mass (compared to the K-219) was available to contain such an explosion, and loss of depth control of the submarine would be instantaneous.
Hostile Waters (ISBN 0312966121) is a 1997 nonfiction book by Peter Huchthausen, Igor Kurdin and R. Alan White that describes the 1986 loss of the Soviet submarine K-219 off Bermuda while captained by Igor Britanov. The incident was also described in the 1997 film of the same name. With a foreword by Tom Clancy, it begins with a note to the reader: