S1 class submarine built at Union Iron Works (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.)
Decommissioned 14 December 1944.
Stricken 20 January 1945.
Sunk as a target off San Diego, California 20 February 1945.
1982 LINFLEXIBLE. Added as an afterthought to the five-strong Le Redoutable
class of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines developed independently in the 1960s, LInflexible is sufficiently different from her sisters to be considered as the leader of a new sub-class.
AN INDEPENDENT...
1981 SAPHIR The smallest of their type in the world, the Rubis-class boats were Frances first nuclear-powered attack submarines, appearing almost two decades after Britains prototype Valiant class.
THE SOUS-MAPJNS NUCLEATRES DATTAQUE (SNAS)
Rubis (formerly Provence), the class leader, was...
1955 USS SARATOGA. A conventionally-powered air craft carrier of the Forrestal class, USS Saratoga (CVA 60) embodied all the lessons learned during the Pacific war. Like her three sister-ships, she was to have a career which spanned almost four decades.
THE FORRESTAL CLASS
The class leader...
1979 USS PHOENIX. The Los Angeles class of nuclear- I powered attack submarines became the US Navys standard type - and that by which others were judged - in the 1 970s, when the threat from Soviet ballistic missile submarines was at its height.
UP TO SPEED
In the earlier classes of...
U.S.S. GROWLER was a pioneer when she departed on her first Nuclear Deterrent Patrol in 1960. Armed with 'Regulus' nuclear cruise missiles, she helped usher in a new era of strategic defense. She was one of the predecessors which led to the deployment of a large fleet of sophisticated submarines...
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