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USS Dolphin (AGSS-555) was a United States Navy diesel-electric deep-diving research and development submarine. She was commissioned in 1968 and decommissioned in 2007. Her 38-year career was the longest in history for a US Navy submarine to that point. She was the Navy's last operational conventionally powered submarine. [2]
USS San Francisco in a dry dock, after hitting an underwater mountain 350 miles (560 km) south of Guam in 2005 This article describes major accidents and incidents involving submarines and submersibles since 2000. 2000s 2000 Kursk explosion Main article: Kursk submarine disaster In August 2000, the Russian Oscar II-class submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea when a leak of high-test peroxide ...
Raised, repaired and re-commissioned as USS Sailfish on 15 May 1940. ... USS Dolphin (AGSS-555) - Maritime Museum of San Diego, San Diego, CA;
Dolphin was the penultimate design in the V-boat series. With a length of 319 ft (97 m) and a displacement only a little more than half that of the previous three large cruiser submarines (1,718 long tons (1,746 t) surfaced, 2,240 long tons (2,276 t) submerged), Dolphin was clearly an attempt to strike a medium between those latter submarines and earlier S-class submarines, which were little ...
USS Croaker: United States New York: Buffalo: United States: 1943 Gato class: Submarine: Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park [20] Name Country Region City Nationality Launched Class Type Remarks Ref USS Dolphin: United States California: San Diego: United States: 1968 Dolphin class: Submarine: Maritime Museum of San Diego [21] USS ...
USS Dolphin (PG-24) was a gunboat/dispatch vessel; the fourth ship of the United States Navy to share the name. Dolphin was the first U.S. Navy ship to fly the flag of the president of the United States during President Chester A. Arthur's administration, and the second Navy ship to serve as a presidential yacht.
List of shipwrecks: 11 February 2000 Ship State Description American Star United States The 442-gross ton, 139.1-foot (42.4 m) or 154-foot (46.9 m) crab-fishing vessel was abandoned in the North Pacific Ocean after a serious engine room fire broke out aboard her.
USS Dolphin (PG-24), a gunboat and dispatch vessel intermittently in and out of commission from 1885 to 1921; USS Dolphin (SP-318), a fishing vessel examined for potential naval use in 1917 but apparently never taken over by the Navy; USS Dolphin (SP-874), a patrol vessel in commission during 1918; USS Dolphin (SS-169), a submarine in ...