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Submarines are naval craft that can operate for an extended period of time underwater. They are used primarily as warships, as well as for business, scientific and other purposes. Submarines are different from submersibles, which only have limited underwater capability.

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Why is the name USS Plunger a fitting name for a submarine?

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plunger is a fitting name for submarine because , it is under the water

Did Ernest Hemingway hunt Nazi submarines?

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Yes, Ernest Hemingway did accompany the US Navy on patrols in the Caribbean Sea to hunt for Nazi submarines during World War II. He used his own boat, the Pilar, to assist in the search.

What is the record for a submarine being continually underwater?

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The record for a submarine being continuously underwater is held by the USS Pennsylvania, a nuclear-powered submarine that submerged for 140 days during a patrol in 2019.

Why submarines need thick strong walls?

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When they go deep under water the pressure would increase so you would need stronger and thicker materials to cope with the force

What is the oldest warship in the world?

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If you're talking about passenger cruise ships, then it would be Royal Caribbean's Oasis and it's sister ship, Allure. They weigh in at 225,282 tons and can hold 6300 passengers!

How deep can a nuclear submarine go?

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It varies by the type of submarine. United States, Russia, United Kingdom, China, France, and India are examples of nations who have or are assumed to have nuclear submarine capabilities.

For security purposes, governments don't give out full specifications on their weapons of war, especially on something as big, expensive, and instrumental as a submarine. The true depth information is classified, probably above "Top Secret". For the general US submarine fleet, the "official" answer is typically around 600 feet. (According to one Navy instructor it was changed from 400 feet when a documentary was aired accidentally showing footage of the depth meter at a depth of around that depth.)
Any Navy in the world who operates a nuclear submarine is going to publish a low ballpark figure in the name of national security and secrecy. If everyone knew the exact depth a submarine could submerse to, it'd be easier to kill them. Wikipedia says a Soviet/Russian class Alpha submarine may have successfully operated at a depth of 4,300 feet. But rest assured whatever the published depth of submarine is, it many times greater than that.

What led adolf to order German submarines to attack American ships?

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America's support of the allies led Hitler to attack American ships.

Who is thetis?

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Poseidon.

What are baddies in the film yellow submarine?

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The bad guys in Yellow Submarine are called the Blue Meanies and they take over Pepperland because of there hatred for music.

What was the submarine name explore the titanic?

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The towed underewater sled that photograhed Titanic for the first time was Angus. The first submersible to dive on Titanic was the Alvin, originally named for famous explorer Al Vine, but joking named for Alvin the Chipmunk due to its small size and cramped quarters.

What beatles album contains the song yellow submarine?

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1.Yellow Submarine

2.Only A Northern Song

3. All Together Now

4.Hey Bulldog

5.It's All Too Much

6.All You Need Is Love

7.Pepperland

8.Sea Of Time

9.Sea Of Holes

10. Sea Of Monsters

11. March Of The Meanies

12.Pepperland Laid Waste

13.Yellow Submarine In Pepperland

Where does the song yellow submarine come from?

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Paul McCartney of the Beatles wrote the song in bed. It was intended to be a children's song. Many people have tried to find further meaning in it but it was really intended to just be a kid's song. It is sung by Ringo.

There is a movie of the same name based on the song.

the group that sung it was the beatles

What is the Motto of the United States Naval Submarine Service?

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Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Fourteen's motto is 'Day and Night, Lightning Strikes!'.

What submarines were in the South China Sea during the Vietnam War?

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Though only Navy records will have a full listing, the National Archives is a good place to start. In general, only PACFLEET (Pacific Fleet) boats (out of the West Coast of the US and Pearl Harbor) would've been assigned to cover operations off the coast of Vietnam. Though such information is now declassified, the actual information isn't usually kept as a single record; it would take a researcher to view all submarine records for those boats for the period indicated, and even some boat records are still classified due to their particular missions. We do know that there were, indeed, fast attack submarines in the South China Sea during the Vietnam conflict. By reviewing the records of individual boats, it might be possible to guess that they were there, particularly if a tour has "western Pacific" as a description of the operating area. But we can make some guesses. Consider just the Skipjack-class boats. Skipjack, SSN-585, was an east coast submarine, and so was Scorpion, SSN-589, which is on eternal patrol (meaning she was lost). They were not there. The USS Shark, SSN-591 was also on the east coast, and it, too, was not there. One boat that was certainly there (in 1967 and again 1971) was the USS Scamp, SSN-588. The USS Sculpin, SSN-590, may have been there on its tour of the western Pacific in 1964. USS Snook, SSN-592 was probably there in 1965, and again in 1969, 1970-71, and also in 1972. If you wish to poke around on the web, you might find that some Thresher/Permit-class submarines were also there. (As the USS Thresher, SSN-593, was lost, this class of boat takes the name of the next remaining sister ship, the USS Permit, SSN-594.) These newer submarines began appearing in the late 1960's, and it is possible that some were in that theater of operation. The fleet ballistic submarines (boomers) stayed away; there was no need for them to be in that small pond. They remained on patrol in the Pacific where they were less likely to be detected yet well within range of tactical targets with their Polaris missiles. Oh, and don't limit your thinking on this one. The Russians has a number of boats in the South China Sea at different times during the conflict as well.

Who invented war submarines?

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David Bushnell invented the first war submarine

What were the disadvantages of u-boats in world war 1?

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U-boats were a huge advantage to both Germans and Americans in WWI for multiple reasons:

-Torpedos could be shot and with no or short notice it would be launched towards the enemy. Hopefully reaching the boat

-Radars were invented to help sense torpedos and U-boats in the seas.

-Held multiple passengers that kept the boat running smooth and efficently

Overall, a huge success.. Germans sinking the Lusitannia from the U-boat... Killing many immigrants and 125 American Citizens

What is the submarine used in the American Revolution?

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The submarine that was used during the American Revolution was called the Turtle or the American Turtle. It was designed to approach British ships that had occupied American harbors and place explosive devices on their hulls. All such attempts failed.

How did the US try to avoid submarine warfare?

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They believed.... It�s a European problem not ours> it was Not affecting U.S. We were wiped out from WWI> everyone remembers the last times ( wwI)..... it was a nightmere Preoccupied with the great depression

What led adolf Hitler to order German submarines to attack amrican ships?

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America's support of the allies led Hitler to attack American ships.

How long have submarines been around for?

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The idea of a submarine has been around for many centuries; even Leonardo da Vinci had drawings of them. Historians credit the invention of the submarine to William Bourne, a British mathematician and ex-Royal Navy gunner who published a design in 1578. The first navigable submarine for which reliable construction data exists was built from Bourne's design in 1620 by Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, a Dutch inventor in the employ of King James I of England.

What happen when German submarines began attacking American ships in 1941?

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When German submarines, or U-Boats, started attacking American ships, the Americans retaliated with full force bringing them into ww1.

What was the name of the Confederate submarine that was first to sink an enemy ship?

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It was the H. L. Hunley, a submarine developed by the Confederate navy during the U.S. Civil War. The mission had mixed results, however, because the Hunley sank soon afterwards, and all hands went down with it. The H.L. Hunley was under Confederate Army command because the Confederate Navy wanted nothing to do with it, as they considered submarines too dangerous, and it was dishonorable to attack at sea without showing the flag. Of the crew aboard when the sub made its fateful attack, only one was a sailor, and the rest were army men. It was not until World War 1 that a submarine would better the Hunley's achievement, as the German sub U9 sank three British cruisers and survived to tell the story. Robert Fulton's Nautilus was actually the first submarine to sink a ship, but it was a peacetime demonstration. Earlier than that, David Bushnell's Turtle made the first submarine attack in the American Revolutionary War, but it was unsuccessful, so Hunley was indeed the first submarine to sink an enemy ship.

Why did German submarine attack ships?

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Germany returned to its policy of unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917 because they hoped that by doing so they would be able to deprive Great Britain of food and war materials. Great Britain was heavily dependent on imports in order to maintain its war effort. By attacking Britain's shipping, Germany hoped that it could starve Britain into submission or weaken its war effort enough that the German army could defeat it on the Western Front.