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List of ships sunk by submarines by death toll. Heavy casualties occurred when submarines sank large passenger ships converted into military transports, such as the Wilhelm Gustloff, that were overloaded with soldiers, prisoners, or refugees. While submarines were invented centuries ago, development of self-propelled torpedoes during the latter ...
List of sunken nuclear submarines. 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. Three submarines were lost with all hands – the two from the United States Navy (129 and 99 lives lost) and one from the Russian ...
Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision. Greeneville in drydock at Pearl Harbor on 21 February 2001 after hitting and sinking Ehime Maru. On 9 February 2001, the American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally struck and sank a Japanese high-school fisheries training ship, Ehime-Maru, killing nine of the thirty-five people aboard, including ...
Docked in Danzig, 23 September 1939. MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea while evacuating civilians and military personnel from East Prussia and the German-occupied Baltic states, and German military personnel from Gotenhafen ( Gdynia ), as the Red ...
Armament. 4 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes amidships. USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead boat of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in the United States Navy. She was the U.S. Navy's second submarine to be named after the thresher shark . On 10 April 1963, Thresher sank during deep-diving tests about 350 km (220 mi) east of Cape ...
At least three of the crew were fee-paying tourists being taken to tour the disintegrating wreck of the doomed ocean liner the Titanic, which sank in 1912 at the cost of 1,500 lives and whose ...
The crown ship of King Eric XIV of Sweden's fleet. The gunpowder store exploded and as many as 1,000 people, including Swedes and the invading Lübeckians, died. [2] 900–1100. 1692. France. Soleil Royal – On 3 June, in the Battle of La Hougue, the French flagship was attacked by 17 ships at Pointe du Hommet.
Fifty-two submarines of the United States Navy were lost during World War II. [5] Two – Dorado (SS-248) and Seawolf (SS-197) – were lost to friendly fire (though there is speculation that the Dorado may have struck a German mine), at least three more – Tulibee, Tang, and Grunion – to defective torpedoes, and six to accident or grounding ...