After completing a 41-month refueling overhaul the USS Louisiana (SSBN 743) has returned to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor. The refueling will extend Louisiana’s serviceable life by twenty years. The last of the 18 boat Ohio class, the Navy plans to replace all the Ohio class Ballistic Missile Submarines
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SECNAV Carlos Del Toro (Secretary of the Navy) has announced the name selected for a new Virginia Class Submarine. The SSN 808 will be christened as the John H. Dalton to honor the 70th SECNAV. Dalton joined the Navy in 1964 and served as a submariner from
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25 March 1915 SS 23 (F4) 21 killed all hands lost 12 March 1920 SS 28 (H 1) 4 killed 3 March 1942 SS 176 Perch All 59 taken prisoner, 6 later died as POWs 5 March 1943 SS 207 Grampus 71 killed all hands lost 15
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Italian Shipbuilder Fincantieri has unveiled a scaled down version of its S1000 submarine. A smaller ‘light’ sub it has been designated as the S800. 51 meters (167 feet) in length and 10 meters (32 feet) in height, with a designed operational depth as much as 250 meters
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The wreckage of a U.S. submarine has been found and identified as the USS Albacore (SS 218)– a vessel believed by the Navy to have struck a mine and sunk off the North coast of Japan during World War II. A team from the University of Tokyo
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In case you missed it. The first pressure hull section of the HMS dreadnought has been fabricated. Using much the same technique the US is employing, modules will be built, then formed together. UK Defence procurement minister Alex Chalk said progress was “crucial to maintaining our national
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The Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet has announced he decommissioning of its largest Submarine, the “Dmitry Donskoy” (TK-208) a Typhoon-class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) according to Russia’s TASS agency. Tass identified it as the last and largest of six Typhoon-class (Project 941) ever built. The Dmitry Donskoy was also the
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