Apr 24, 2025 · Submarines have a long history in the United States, beginning with Turtle, during the American Revolution. The world’s first combat submarine, invented by David Bushnell, was devised …

The Confederate submersible H. L. Hunley has the distinction of being the first submarine to sink an enemy warship in wartime. Although the boat and its crew were lost as a result of this endeavor, the …

Pre-U.S. Entry Into WWII The first action between the U.S. and German navies occured on April 10, 1941, when USS Niblack (DD-424) neared the Icelandic coast to pick-up three boatloads of survivors …

Jul 23, 2025 · USS Wahoo (SS-238) was commissioned 15 May 1942, and on 12 August was bound for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where the submarine conducted intensive training. On 23 August, Wahoo was …

The sixth U.S. Navy ship named Scorpion, but named to perpetuate the name of the fifth Scorpion (SS-278), which sank with all hands in 1944. VI (SSN-589: displacement 3,075 (surfaced), 3,500 …

Apr 11, 2025 · Overview Naval Submarine Base New London is the Navy's first submarine base and the "Home of the Submarine Force." The base’s beginnings were as a naval yard and storage depot. …

The evolution of the Navy's submarines spans self-propelled through nuclear.

Aug 21, 2024 · The submarine underwent a grueling depth charge attack described in her records as “the worst ever experienced by this vessel.” Within just a few days, the severe impairment caused by …

1921: Over Norfolk, Virginia, the non-rigid C-7 completes the first flight of an airship inflated with helium gas, which becomes standard on Navy airships.

Nov 28, 2023 · Trieste—a research bathyscaphe—was the development of a concept first studied in 1937 by Swiss physicist and balloonist Auguste Piccard. World War II delayed his work on the deep …