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Complement. 134. Armament. 12 × VLS ( BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile) 4 × 533 mm torpedo tubes ( Mk-48 torpedo) USS Texas (SSN-775) is a Virginia -class submarine, and the fourth warship of the United States Navy to be named after the US state of Texas . The contract to build her was awarded to the Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard ...
Added to NRHP. 27 May 2008. USS Cavalla (SS/SSK/AGSS-244), a Gato -class submarine, is a submarine of the United States Navy named for a salt water fish, best known for sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Shōkaku . Her keel was laid down on 4 March 1943 by Electric Boat Co., Groton, Connecticut.
Foundered in bad weather in 1863. First submarine of the United States Navy. Intelligent Whale. Experimental submarine built in 1863, acquired by the US Navy in 1869 and abandoned in 1873. DSV-0. Trieste. First submarine which reached the Challenger Deep by Swiss Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh in 1960.
Museum submarines in the United States. Indonesian Navy Submarine Monument. CB-20 midget submarine page. 1996 North Korean Gangneung submarine infiltration incident museum pictures and information. Picture and location of HA-51. Melaka Bandaraya Warisan Dunia Museum Submarine Melaka. Categories: Museum ships.
Submarines in the United States Navy. There are three major types of submarines in the United States Navy: ballistic missile submarines, attack submarines, and cruise missile submarines. All submarines currently in the U.S. Navy are nuclear-powered. Ballistic missile submarines have a single strategic mission of carrying nuclear submarine ...
SSN-771, CL-56, AG-9, & C-12 were named after American cities also named Columbia. Guam. PG-43, CB-2, LPH-9, T-HST-1. Northern Mariana Islands. USS Saipan (CVL-48) and ( LHA-2 ), both named for the Battle of Saipan, which took place on the island of Saipan, the largest and most populous island and the capital of CNMI. Puerto Rico.
United States Naval Station Orange, later Texas Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet and US Naval Reserve Orange was a major United States Navy shipyard in Orange, Texas on the Sabine River. The shipyard opened on August 24, 1940, to manage the construction of 24 landing craft. To support the shipyards the navy built new naval offices, barracks and ...
USNS Big Horn ( Henry J. Kaiser -class oiler) Watson -class vehicle cargo ship – 8 active. Bob Hope -class vehicle cargo ship – 7 active. Shughart -class vehicle cargo ship – 3 active. Gordon -class vehicle cargo ship – 2 active. Supply -class fast combat support ship – 2 active. Lewis and Clark -class dry cargo ship – 14 active.