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Balao-class submarine. Gato-class submarine. Mackerel-class submarine. United States O-class submarine. United States Porpoise-class submarine. United States R-class submarine. Salmon-class submarine. Sargo-class submarine. Tambor-class submarine.
Foundered in bad weather in 1863. First submarine of the United States Navy. Intelligent Whale. Experimental submarine built in 1863, acquired by the US Navy in 1869 and abandoned in 1873. DSV-0. Trieste. First submarine which reached the Challenger Deep by Swiss Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh in 1960.
This is a list of submarines of World War II, which began with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 and ended with the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945. Germany used submarines to devastating effect in the Battle of the Atlantic, where it attempted to cut Britain's supply routes by sinking more merchant ships than Britain ...
In World War II, the United States Navy used submarines heavily. Overall, 263 US submarines undertook war patrols, [2] claiming 1,392 ships and 5,583,400 tons during the war. [3] [a] Submarines in the United States Navy were responsible for sinking 540,192 tons or 30% of the Japanese navy and 4,779,902 tons of shipping, or 54.6% of all Japanese shipping in the Pacific Theater.
Prototype "fleet submarines"—submarines fast enough (21 knots (11 m/s)) to travel with battleships. Twice the size of any concurrent or past U.S. submarine. A poor tandem engine design caused the boats to be decommissioned by 1923 and scrapped in 1930.
This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total. Age of Sail submarines of the United States (2 P) 19th-century submarines of the United States (9 P) World War I submarines of the United States (100 P) World War II submarines of the United States (336 P) Cold War submarines of the United States (1 C, 350 P)
Submarines of World War II represented a wide range of capabilities with many types of varying specifications produced by dozens of countries. The principle countries engaged in submarine warfare during the war were Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States, United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. The Italian and Soviet fleets were the largest.
The V-boats were a group of nine United States Navy submarines built between World War I and World War II from 1921 to 1934 under authorization as the "fleet boat" program.. The term "V-boats" as used includes five separate classes of submarines: large, fast fleet submarines (V-1 through V-3), large long-range submarines (the minelayer V-4 and two submarine cruisers V-5 and V-6) and three ...