has a us submarine ever sunk?
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Nine nuclear submarines have sunk, either by accident or scuttling. ... Three were lost with all hands - the two from the United States Navy (129 and 99 lives lost) and one from the Russian Navy (118 lives lost), and these are also the three largest losses of life in a submarine.
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When I posed this question to Michael Horodniceanu, he immediately made a clarification: The subway tunnels in New York are not necessarily "underwater," but rather, underneath the riverbed. ... The Canarsie Tube, opened in 1924, was built the same way most of the city's subway tunnels were, says Horodniceanu.
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In 1917, Germany, determined to win its war of attrition against the Allies, announced the resumption of unrestricted warfare in war-zone waters. Three days later, the United States broke diplomatic relations with Germany, and just hours after that the American liner Housatonic was sunk by a German U-boat.
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Introducing Submarines into World of Warships: How to Balance Fun Gameplay Against Realism. There's a ship type that has been missing World of Warships so far—submarines. ... But adding a new ship type to the game 5 years after its release isn't an easy task at all.
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Am attempting to blow (ballast tanks). Will keep you informed.” The sail of USS Thresher, located after the sinking. But Thresher never surfaced, and the Navy later found the sub in six pieces on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
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The Military Balance states the U.S. Navy listed no battleships in the reserve in 2014. When the last Iowa-class ship was finally stricken from the Naval Vessel Registry, no battleships remained in service or in reserve with any navy worldwide. A number are preserved as museum ships, either afloat or in drydock.
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Judging from the very small number of reports, not very often. TL:DR - Only once, even if you count wild orcas. Less than ten if you add in captive orcas. I could only find one confirmed report of a dolphin nicknamed Tião, in Rio who killed one and attacked another.
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Four battleships were retained by the United States Navy until the end of the Cold War for fire support purposes and were last used in combat during the Gulf War in 1991. The last battleships were struck from the U.S. Naval Vessel Register in the 2000s.
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After decades of fruitless searches, the wreckage of heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis was found on the floor of the Philippine Sea on August 19, 2017. Searchers located the remains of the ship 5,500 meters (18,044 feet) below the sea, according to billionaire Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, who led the expedition.
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Unrestricted submarine warfare is a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink vessels such as freighters and tankers without warning, as opposed to attacks per prize rules (also known as "cruiser rules"). ... This rendered the restrictions on submarines effectively useless.
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Each SSBN submarine is armed with up to 24 Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM). Each SSGN is capable of carrying 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles, plus a complement of Harpoon missiles to be fired through their torpedo tubes.
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In 1941, the German battleship Bismarck sank the British battle cruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic, killing all but three of the 1,418 men on board. In 1962, astronaut Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Aurora 7.
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Normally, a submerged submarine will not rock with the motion of the waves on the surface. It is only in the most violent hurricanes and cyclones that wave motion reaches as much as 400 feet below the surface. In these conditions, submarines can take a five to ten-degree roll.
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['Sinking of the RMS Titanic, 1912.', 'Starvation in Bengal, 1943.', 'Aeroplane crash in Smolensk, 2010.', 'Oil in Gulf of Mexico, 2010.', 'Tōhoku Earthquake, 2011.', 'Grounding of Costa Concordia, 2012.', 'Moore Tornado, 2013.']
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The Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor, near Middletown, Pa., partially melted down on March 28, 1979. This was the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history, although its small radioactive releases had no detectable health effects on plant workers or the public.
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The Ohio class of nuclear-powered submarines includes the United States Navy's 14 ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) and its four cruise missile submarines (SSGNs). ... The 14 SSBNs together carry about half of U.S. active strategic thermonuclear warheads.
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Depth charges could also be dropped from an attacking aircraft against submarines. ... Later depth charges would be developed specifically for aerial use. Such weapons still have utility today and are in limited use, particularly for shallow-water situations where a homing torpedo may not be suitable.