26U-505 Secret U.S. Capture
The German submarine U-505 was secretly captured by the U.S. Navy on June 4, 1944, by Task Group 22.3. The crew attempted to scuttle it, but a U.S. 8-man boarding party rushed inside, keeping it afloat for a 3,150-kilometer tow back to Bermuda. Until after the war, they kept the ship's capture a secret.
27. In 1968, the US nuclear submarine USS Scorpion sank in deep water, and it is still resting at a known location at the bottom of the sea. We've never recovered the nuclear reactor or nuclear weapons. In fact, in 1968, four submarines sank mysteriously. In January, an Israeli sub vanished, and four days later, a French sub vanished without a trace. In March, a Soviet submarine exploded and sank, and in May, the USS Scorpion also exploded and sank-both causes remain officially unknown.
28. During World War II, a Nazi sailor flushed his toilet incorrectly, causing his submarine to flood with seawater. The sub was forced to surface in view of the British forces, who then attacked, resulting in the vessel's destruction, four Nazi deaths, and 46 Nazis being captured.
29. No U.S. Navy submarine is ever considered "lost" if it does not return. It is considered to be "still on patrol."
30. In 1995, a Russian nuclear submarine base had its electricity cut by an electricity company due to unpaid bills. One of the submarine's cooling systems ceased to function, and its reactor came close to meltdown.
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31Archerfish Sinks Shinano Carrier
During World War II, the U.S. submarine Archerfish sank the Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano, but the U.S. Navy did not believe it had actually sunk a carrier until the acting commander drew a picture of the carrier.
32. In 1969, the USS Chopper submarine suffered an electrical failure while diving, causing it to point nearly vertically downward and almost reach crushing depth. During the crew's efforts to regain control, the submarine eventually shot up, nose-up, nearly completely out of the water.
33. When the ARA San Juan submarine disappeared in 2017, initial search crews detected a banging noise at the search site, similar to tools hitting metal. The audio analysis revealed that the sound did not originate from the submarine but was most likely from a biological source.
34. A British nuclear submarine checks whether BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting to see whether the government is still functioning.
35. The UK Royal Navy's Astute-class nuclear-powered submarines can purify their own air and water and run on nuclear fuel, limiting their endurance to only 90 days due to breakfast storage capacity for 18,000 sausages and 4,200 Weetabix.
