Submarine Force - NHHC
Apr 24, 2025 · Submarines have a long history in the United States, beginning with Turtle, during the American Revolution. The world’s first combat submarine, invented by David Bushnell, …
H. L. Hunley Wreck (1864) - NHHC
The Confederate submersible H. L. Hunley has the distinction of being the first submarine to sink an enemy warship in wartime. Although the boat and its crew were lost as a result of this …
Pre-U.S. Entry Into WWII - NHHC
Pre-U.S. Entry Into WWII The first action between the U.S. and German navies occured on April 10, 1941, when USS Niblack (DD-424) neared the Icelandic coast to pick-up three boatloads …
Wahoo (SS-238) - NHHC
Jul 23, 2025 · USS Wahoo (SS-238) was commissioned 15 May 1942, and on 12 August was bound for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where the submarine conducted intensive training. On 23 …
Scorpion VI (SSN-589) - NHHC
The sixth U.S. Navy ship named Scorpion, but named to perpetuate the name of the fifth Scorpion (SS-278), which sank with all hands in 1944. VI (SSN-589: displacement 3,075 (surfaced), …
Naval Submarine Base New London, Connecticut - NHHC
Apr 11, 2025 · Overview Naval Submarine Base New London is the Navy's first submarine base and the "Home of the Submarine Force." The base’s beginnings were as a naval yard and …
Submarines - NHHC
The evolution of the Navy's submarines spans self-propelled through nuclear.
Nautilus III (SC-2) - NHHC
Aug 21, 2024 · The submarine underwent a grueling depth charge attack described in her records as “the worst ever experienced by this vessel.” Within just a few days, the severe impairment …
Submarine Force Museum - NHHC
1921: Over Norfolk, Virginia, the non-rigid C-7 completes the first flight of an airship inflated with helium gas, which becomes standard on Navy airships.
Bathyscaphe Trieste - NHHC
Nov 28, 2023 · Trieste—a research bathyscaphe—was the development of a concept first studied in 1937 by Swiss physicist and balloonist Auguste Piccard. World War II delayed his work on …