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Kingston valves of the Argonaute can be seen on her keel. A Kingston valve is a type of valve fitted in the bottom of a ship's plating [1] that connects the sea to the ship's piping and storage tanks. A Kingston valve is a type of seacock. [1] It is arranged so that, under normal operating conditions, sea pressure keeps the valve closed. [2]
Subsea valves are used to isolate or control the flow of material through an undersea pipeline (submarine pipeline) or other apparatus.Most commonly used to transport oil and gas, they are designed to function in a sub-marine environment, withstanding the effects of raised external pressure, salt-water corrosion, and bubbles or debris in the material carried.
USS. Thresher. (SSN-593) USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead boat of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in the United States Navy. She was the U.S. Navy's second submarine to be named after the thresher shark . On 10 April 1963, Thresher sank during deep-diving tests about 350 km (220 mi) east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, killing all ...
Vent (submarine) The vents of the Redoutable are under the casing. The square openings in the casing are limber holes to facilitate draining the superstructure. In submarine technology a vent is a valve fitted to the top of a submarine 's ballast tanks to let air escape from the top of the ballast tank and be replaced by water entering through ...
Saddle tank (submarine) The German submarine U-995 at the German Navy memorial at Laboe, showing the starboard saddle tank as the elongated bulge along the side of the submarine. Saddle tanks are a type of ballast tank configuration fitted to submarines . Saddle tanks are fitted in pairs external to the pressure hull, one on each side, in a ...
Submarine museum of the world, map. Historical Naval Ships Association. The Rahmi M Koç Museum. U. S. Navy Submarine Force Museum Archived 2008-09-23 at the Wayback Machine. Patterson Museum. WWII U.S. Submarine Memorials and Museums. Museum submarines in the United States. Indonesian Navy Submarine Monument.
Armament. MK-48 torpedoes. 20 × Trident II D-5 ballistic missiles. USS West Virginia (SSBN-736) is a United States Navy Ohio -class ballistic missile submarine. She has been in commission since 1990. She is the third U.S. Navy ship to be named for West Virginia, the 35th state, and the 11th of 18 Ohio -class submarines.
4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 12 × vertical launch Tomahawk missiles. USS Hartford (SSN-768), a Los Angeles -class submarine, is the second ship of the Navy to be named for Hartford, Connecticut. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 30 June 1988 and ...