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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Three South African navy personnel died and a senior officer was in critical condition after seven crew members of a submarine were swept off its deck by big waves ...
Orkney, South Africa: 62 31 August 1987 A methane gas explosion at the St. Helena gold mine severed the cable of a double-deck elevator, causing it to fall 1.4 kilometers to the bottom of the mine shaft, killing all 52 people on board. 10 others who were not in the elevator were killed in the explosion. [104] [105] Welkom, South Africa: 31 27 ...
Greeneville in drydock at Pearl Harbor on 21 February 2001 after hitting and sinking Ehime Maru.. On 9 February 2001, the American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally struck and sank a Japanese high-school fisheries training ship, Ehime Maru, killing nine of the thirty-five people aboard, including four students, 10 miles (16 km) off the coast of Oahu.
The Type 209/1400 submarines replace the French-built Daphné-class submarines, SAS Spear, SAS Assegaai and SAS Umkhonto which were decommissioned in 2003. The Heroine class are sometimes considered to be South Africa's first "true" submarines, as they were more suited to being underwater than the Daphné models. [3] [disputed – discuss]
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.
A British troop carrier sunk north of Béjaïa in an air attack during World War II. [4] [5: HMS Samphire Royal Navy: 30 January 1943 A Flower-class corvette that was torpedoed by an Italian submarine off Béjaïa
It started with a bang at 3 a.m. Monday as the residents of Derna were sleeping. One dam burst, then a second, sending a huge wave of water gushing down through the mountains towards the coastal ...
The disclosure of its location is considered rare, a submarine expert said. US deploys submarine — its ‘most powerful ship’ — to Middle East. What can it do?