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Nine nuclear submarines have sunk, either by accident or scuttling. The Soviet Navy lost five (one of which sank twice), the Russian Navy two, and the United States Navy (USN) two.
Nov 5, 2021 · The Navy says it got there – more than 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) east of the South China Sea – under its own power and its nuclear reactor was not harmed, although 11 of its crew of suffered...
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The first nuclear submarine lost at sea, Thresher was also the third of four submarines lost with more than 100 people aboard, the others being the French Surcouf, sinking with 130 personnel in 1942, USS Argonaut, lost with 102 aboard in 1943, and Russian Kursk, which sank with 118 aboard in 2000.
Nov 13, 2009 · On April 10, 1963, the USS Thresher, an atomic submarine, sinks in the Atlantic Ocean, killing the entire crew. One hundred and twenty-nine sailors and civilians were lost when the sub...
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Mar 6, 2014 · The USS Scorpion (SSN-589) sank 400 miles southwest of the Azores islands in the Atlantic Ocean while returning from a Mediterranean deployment in May 1968, killing all the 99 crew onboard. The USS Scorpion was a 3,500t Skipjack class nuclear-powered attack submarine commissioned into the US Navy in July 1960.
Oct 7, 2021 · The Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN-22) suffered an underwater collision while operating in international waters on Oct. 2 and is returning to port in U.S. 7th Fleet, a U.S. Pacific Fleet spokesman confirmed to USNI News on Thursday.
Nov 2, 2021 · An undersea collision that injured 11 crew members of a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine last month was caused by an uncharted seamount (an underwater mountain), the U.S. Navy says.
