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USS Grayback (SS-208), a Tambor-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the lake herring, Coregonus artedi.She ranked 20th among all U.S. submarines in total tonnage sunk during World War II, with 63,835 tons, and 24th in number of ships sunk, with 14.
During World War II, the U.S. Navy's submarine service suffered one of the highest casualty percentage of all the American armed forces, losing one in five submariners. [3] Some 16,000 submariners served during the war, of whom 375 officers and 3,131 enlisted men were killed, resulting in a total fatality rate of around 22%.
The Lost 52 Project is a private organization founded by Tim Taylor to do research on the 52 U.S. Navy submarines lost on patrol during the Second World War, performing discovery, exploration, and underwater archeology where possible. [1] [2] Found, so far: [3] [4] [5]
The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday.
Japanese submarine I-11; Japanese submarine I-20; Japanese submarine I-21; Japanese submarine I-23; Japanese submarine I-32; Japanese submarine I-38; Japanese submarine I-39; Japanese submarine I-40; Japanese submarine I-44; Japanese submarine I-46; Japanese submarine I-54 (1943) Japanese submarine I-55 (1943) Japanese submarine I-72; Japanese ...
Among the many missing ships on the list are submarines, which have limited communication, and provide the crew almost no chance of survival if struck by disaster under water. The advancement of radar technology by the end of World War II and today's Global Positioning System make it more likely that a distressed vessel will be located.
UPDATE (June 22): A debris field has been found in the search area around the Titanic shipwreck, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed on Thursday. The debris was discovered by a remote-operated vehicle ...
The crushing pressure of the ocean at that extreme depth means that an unmanned vehicle such as a US Navy’s Curv-21 would realistically be the only vessel that could reach the missing submersible.