Which submarine or U-boat first comes to your mind. Any application (research, military, etc.) any period in history or modern.
2006-09-13 14:56:10 · 54 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
The Royal Navy's HMS Conqueror, decommissioned in 1990.
The only nuclear-powered submarine to have attacked a ship with its torpedoes: successfully sinking the General Belgrano (which, interestingly, had survived the Pearl Harbour attacks decades before), and returned to base with the Jolly Roger flying.
2006-09-16 01:40:41 · answer #1 · answered by D 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Beatles "Yellow Submarine" is well known. Personally I like Submarine sandwiches. In fiction we have the Nautilis commanded by Captain Nemo. Off course "Red October" is famous and from the same movie USS Dallas (a real submarine)
became note worthy.
The first submarine used successfully in war was the CSS Hunley in the Civil War. USS Nauitilis was the first nuclear powered submarine and the first to go under the North Pole. And i do believe President Carter served on the Nautilis in his early days in the Navy.
2006-09-16 20:48:17 · answer #2 · answered by barrettins 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
HMS Conqueror,
The Yellow One
CSS Huntley
Skipjack
German Wolfpack's in General
The Kursk
Oh and the UK Sub Rescue Service who saved the Russian crew in 2005.
Just one point of fact to Buzzin Benny.
Hollywood History lesson 101
U571 was captured and borded by the British ( YES THE BRITISH ) hence we cracked Enigma at Bletchley Park.
Hollywood just thought it would look better if Jon "bon fu'ckin" Jovi stared in it as a hero as opposed to his everyday mantle as a **** !
2006-09-18 01:23:41 · answer #3 · answered by Ross B 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Yellow Submarine
2006-09-13 14:59:04 · answer #4 · answered by Kris 4 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Not to sound like a smart alec, but I don't think most people even know much about submarines other than to classify all underwater transports as submarines.
So, I'd have to say the best answer is The Yellow Submarine - by The Beatles.
2006-09-13 14:59:25 · answer #5 · answered by drizzt_234 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
HMS Conqueror - the ship that sank the Argentinian cruiser the General Belgrano during the Falklands War in 1982.
When this vessel returned to her home port of Faslane she flew the Jolly Roger, traditionally flown by Royal Navy ships that have had a confirmed 'kill' in battle.
2006-09-16 06:59:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Yellow One
songhttp://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/submarine.htm
2006-09-13 15:39:02 · answer #7 · answered by "Call me Dave" 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Yellow
2006-09-19 00:19:02 · answer #8 · answered by pmsteph 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Kursk, sadly. Maybe also USS Thresher and the K2 - submarines can be dangerous places to work.
2006-09-13 20:58:19 · answer #9 · answered by intelligent_observer 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
USS Wahoo(ss238), One the top scoring subs of WW2.
WAHOO was one of the Submarine Force’s most valuable units during her six patrols, and her feats have become submarine legend. She sank 27 ships, totaling 119,100 tons, and damaged two more, making 24,900 tons, in the six patrols completed before her loss. Her patrolling career began in August 1942 in the Carolines. On this patrol WAHOO sank a freighter. Her second patrol was in the Solomons, and she sank a freighter. WAHOO conducted her third patrol in the Palau area. She sank two large freighters, a transport, a tanker, and an escort vessel. In addition, she entered Wewak harbor, on the north coast of New Guinea, seriously damaged a destroyer, which was later found beached there, and obtained reconnaissance data. For her fourth patrol, WAHOO went to the Yellow Sea west of Korea. Here she sank eight freighters, a tanker, a patrol craft and two sampans in March 1943.
Going to the Kurile chain for her fifth patrol, WAHOO sank two freighters and a large tanker, also doing damage to another freighter and a large (15,600-ton) aircraft transport. The sixth war patrol of WAHOO was the disappointing one in the Japan Sea due to poor torpedo performance. Not one of the many attacks on merchantmen resulted in a torpedo hit; WAHOO’s only sinkings were of three sampans by gunfire. WAHOO was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for her third patrol. Commander Morton was considered one of the topnotch officers in the submarine force, and the loss of this ship was in irreparable blow to the Service. She was sunk OCT11, 1943 in the La Perouse Strait. 80 hands lost.......
The Nautilus (SSN571), by the way is famous also for being the first ship to travel from the Pacfic to Atlantic via the North pole in 1958.
2006-09-13 15:53:00 · answer #10 · answered by lana_sands 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋