US Submarines Ban Smoking – 40% Of Crew Switching To Nicorette
A Navy tradition will ended at midnight on Friday. By order of the Navy’s top admiral, smoking will no longer be allowed on submarines effective Jan 1st, 2011. The smoking lamp will be no more. A study...
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Severodvinsk Attack Sub – Russians Launch First Of A New Class
After near 20 years of construction, the first of Russia’s 4th generation multi-purpose submarine will sail out in the White Sea in May. The submarine, named “Severodvinsk” after the city where it is...
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Drug Smuggling Sub’s [Photos]
gCaptain has looked at the phenomena of drug trafficking submarine’s before (Link) but a new photo documentary from Time magazine shows these tiny cutter-evading devils in a new light. Take a look:...
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Dutch Navy Discovers Missing German WWI U-boat
The Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) has located the wreck of the World War I German submarine U-106 off the coast of Terschelling in the Netherlands. The submarine had been missing since October 1917....
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General Dynamics wins potentially huge Navy contract
Electric Boat, a subsidary of General Dynamics, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy to develop advanced submarine technologies for current and future undersea platforms. The contract is worth...
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Chainsawing Submarines – Images From the Arctic
While some are using this month’s bizarre winter weather to ski naked, Gizmodo points us to more serious work being done by the Applied Physics Lab Ice Station in Alaska. Their mission? Chainsaw...
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DSME Eyeing $1.1 Billion Submarine Deal
Indonesia's KRI Cakra 401 submarine SEOUL (Dow Jones)–Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (042660.SE) said Monday it is talking with the Indonesian government about the possible sale of...
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Russian Ballistic Missile Submarine Catches Fire
MOSCOW (Dow Jones)–Some crew members were still aboard a Russian nuclear submarine ablaze early Friday after its hull caught fire during shipyard repairs but there was no radiation threat, officials...
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The Most Important British Vessel Sunk Off the Chinese Coast You’ve Probably...
The HMS Poseidon. Photo: LostPensivos Films In recent weeks, the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in the North Atlantic and the 3D re-release of 1997′s Oscar-winning ‘Titanic’ has...
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USS Thresher Remembered 50 Years After Sinking
By Jason Kelly It’s been almost 50 years since USS Thresher (SSN-593) sank off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, claiming the lives of 129 Sailors and civilian technicians aboard. Family members...
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Submarine Grave Discovery Propels New York Explorers’ Movie Bid
USS R-12 (SS-89) By Anna Edgerton June 10 (Bloomberg) — A team of New York-based explorers took Helen Cashell Baldwin out in their research vessel off the coast of Key West, Florida last summer. More...
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Billionaires Emulating Jules Verne Take Submarines to Sea Depths
Image: U Boat Worx Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) — The strange contraption slowly being assembled in a modest industrial shed in Breda, a small city in the Netherlands, bears little resemblance to Nautilus, the...
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Maritime Monday for December 2nd, 2013: Movies About Submarines Part 3; The...
Welcome (back) to Maine Miss Monkey Fist has successfully relocated from the dismal Baltimore suburbs to the sparkling and wonderful Lakes Region of Maine, northwest of Portland. When she lived in...
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Maritime Monday for December 9th, 2013: Amazing, Daring, True! | Movies About...
Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 Operation Bikini (American International, 1963) “Temptation in Paradise… neither hell nor high heels could stop them” – This one starts in the Pacific in 1943 when an American...
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Maritime Monday for December 16th, 2013: Movies About Submarines, Part 5;...
Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Submarine Attack (I.F.E. Releasing, 1954) Re-released in 1959 as Torpedo Zone. + In this adventure, the commander of an Italian submarine scuttles a ship and ends...
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Maritime Monday for December 23rd, 2013: Submarine Movies Part 6; El...
Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 - Part 5 U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien; 1958 German war film portraying the combat career of World War II Kriegsmarine U-boat captain Günther Prien, (1908 –...
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$18 Billion Newbuild Order Awarded to General Dynamics
USS Virginia (SSN 774), US Navy photo via GD Electric Boat General Dynamics (GD) has their work cut out for them after winning a $17.6 billion newbuild order from the U.S. Navy yesterday. As a result...
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Russian Nuclear Submarine Rescues Sailors in Distress – PHOTOS
A group of civilian mariners got the surprise of their lives this Sunday when a giant Russian nuclear submarine came to the rescue after they had sent out a distress signal. According to the Russian...
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North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un Showboats Rusted, 1950′s-Era Submarine – PHOTOS
North Korea’s “Supreme Leader” Kim Jong-un visited a naval base recently to tour a staple of the People’s Navy’s subsea warfare capabilities: a rusted-up, 1950′s-era clunker submarine. During his...
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North Korea Seeking Submarines Capable of Firing Missiles
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looks through a periscope of a submarine during his inspection of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) Naval Unit 167 in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean...
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