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The USS New Orleans was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and responded to the Japanese air attack. Later, the vessel pulled ...
On Dec. 17, 1917, the U.S. submarine USS F-1 was lost at sea during a training accident off the coast of California, killing 19 crew members on board.
The USS F-1 submarine sank in seconds after it was badly damaged in a collision with another U.S. Navy submarine. Nineteen of its crew drowned in the accident, and three were rescued by the other sub.
On January 8, 2005, the Los Angeles-class attack submarine, USS San Francisco (SSN 711), crashed into an underwater mountain 364 nautical miles southeast of Guam at a depth of 525 feet.
Perhaps even more impressive in regards to the USS San Francisco's case is that, though the submarine was severely damaged during the collision, it was still able to make its way back to port on ...
Naval Base Guam, March 2003: The second sub to arrive for Submarine Squadron 15, USS San Francisco, is moored alongside its tender ship, USS Frank Cable, at Guam’s Polaris Point.
"USS San Francisco, SSN 810 once commissioned will be our nation's newest Virginia class nuclear-powered fast attack submarine," said Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy. The announcement of ...
The most recent was the Los Angeles-class attack submarine, the former USS San Francisco (SSN-711). San Francisco was inactivated from service in 2017.
The investigation also revealed a previous accident on the USS Connecticut. In April 2021, the submarine collided with a pier at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego.
In 2005, when the USS San Francisco fast-attack submarine struck an underwater mountain, it took 3 1/2 years and $134 million to make repairs — including a new sonar dome.