Submarine History

On 14 June 1952, the keel of USS NAUTILUS (SSN-571) was laid at General Dynamics Electric Boat in Groton, Connecticut. It was authenticated by President Harry S. Truman, whose chalked initials were welded into the metal. The letters are still [...]

Built by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company of Quincy, Massachusetts, and commissioned on 23 September 1919, USS R-12 (SS-89) spent most of her first ten years in Hawaii. She returned to New London in 1931 and then made her way [...]

Although there were many unusual occurrences on submarines during World War II, only one was turned into a comic by the famous Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. In today’s “Tidbit” we’ll set the scene with excerpts from the seventh war [...]

Ever wonder how the Navy goes about naming its vessels? Let the Naval History and Heritage Command, our parent command, bring you up to speed. Today we bring you part four of four of “Ship Naming in the United States [...]

Ever wonder how the Navy goes about naming its vessels? Let the Naval History and Heritage Command, our parent command, bring you up to speed. Today we bring you part three of four of “Ship Naming in the United States [...]

Ever wonder how the Navy goes about naming its vessels? Let the Naval History and Heritage Command, our parent command, bring you up to speed. Today we bring you part two of four of “Ship Naming in the United States [...]

Ever wonder how the Navy goes about naming its vessels? Let the Naval History and Heritage Command, our parent command, bring you up to speed. Today we bring you part one of four of “Ship Naming in the United States [...]

On 21 May 1944, USS HERRING (SS-233) began her eighth war patrol, setting out from Midway en route to the Kurile Islands, an archipelago that stretches over 800 miles from Hokkaido, Japan, to Kamchatka, Russia. On the morning of the [...]