submarines

The Russian Navy ideally needs to have at least 50 nuclear-powered submarines, a high-ranking Navy officer said during a live interview with Ekho Moskvy radio station on Saturday. The Russian Navy has some 60 strategic, multi-functional and diesel-powered submarines in its fleet that are combat ready. "The number of nuclear submarines in Russia's Navy should be no less than 40-50," First Deputy of the Naval General Staff Vice Admiral Oleg Burtsev said.

The number of nuclear submarines in Russia's Navy should be no less than 40-50   -Oleg Burtsev

 

Greece is poised to settle a four-year dispute about an allegedly unseaworthy German-built submarine in a move that appears to be intended to curry favour with Berlin in advance of next week's European Union summit. The Greek navy refused in 2006 to take delivery of the Papanikolis, a diesel-electric powered submarine constructed at the Kiel shipyard of ThyssenKrupp, on the grounds that it listed heavily during trials in the North Sea. But in an abrupt policy shift, George Papandreou, the prime minister,  

Crews will resume their search Saturday for a man who's been missing since a tow boat sunk last weekend in the Ohio River. The search for Christopher McCallister, of Vevay, was suspended Tuesday when high water and swift currents put crews in danger. McCalister has been missing since Sunday afternoon, when the tow boat Credo sank on the left bank of the Ohio River near Taylorsport, Ky.  

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) will mark the 50th anniversary of the historic deep-sea dive of the Trieste with an April 15 ceremony at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. On Jan. 23, 1960, the Trieste plunged more than 35,810 feet to the deepest known point on the Earth's surface, the Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench. Chief of Naval Research Rear Admiral Nevin Carr will present Dr. Don Walsh, who steered the ONR-funded vessel to its record-setting dive, the Secretary of the Navy  

WHEN Darren Brown's grandmother started to reveal fragmented memories of her father's World War I exploits on a British submarine, he became determined to put the pieces together. What followed was four years of amateur sleuthing through the war archives of four countries and the eventual discovery of the long-forgotten HMS E18 submarine in the Baltic Sea. A 93-year mystery of the fate of the 30 British men and three Russians on board was finally solved. The Melbourne airline engineer's great-grandf

When you start researching an individual, you take on their thoughts to a degree and the one thought I kept thinking was what actually happened to his mates   -Darren Brown

 

Two of the most advanced naval vessels in the world met for the first time this week, as Dauntless, the second of the Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyers, and Astute, the first of class Astute nuclear powered attack submarine, combined on sea trials in the firth of Clyde. Astute is the most advanced attack submarine ever supplied to the Royal Navy, incorporating the latest stealth technology combined with a world class sonar system, an improved capability for world-wide operations, much greater firepower, be  

The skipper of a Pearl Harbor-base submarine, who was fired Monday for "drunkenness," had been drinking with a dozen Navy ROTC cadets at a pizza restaurant near Cornell University last week. It was the commanding officer of Cornell University's NROTC unit who told Pearl Harbor officials about the incident involving Cmdr. Jeff Cima. On Monday, Cima, commander of the USS Chicago since August, was relieved for "drunkenness" and "conduct unbecoming an officer" at a captain's mast conducted by Capt. Daryl C

The commander and the lieutenant had way too much to drink   -Larry Olsen

 

Son of Edward Maples Linton and Margaret Gertrude Linton, husband of Nancy Kate Linton. From the outbreak of the war in 1939 to May 1943 which was the month of HMS Turbulent's last patrol in the Mediterranean, Commander Linton was responsible for sinking approximately 100,000 tons of enemy shipping, including a cruiser, a destroyer, a U-boat and 28 other ships. In addition Turbulent destroyed three trains by gun fire.  

Submarine rides on Lake Atascadero? Believe it or not, it could happen in the future. A local man wants to put a replica of a World War II sub in the water there.