The 400-ton craft, commissioned in 1911, was the biggest in the pre-revolutionary fleet and is though to be the first submarine in the world that was capable of firing a volley of several torpedoes. It was dispatched on a mission in 1915 with 35 sailors aboard but never returned to port...
The crew indicated it was attempting to empty ballast tanks in an effort to surface. The crew of an accompanying rescue ship heard something about the “test depth.” Then the sailors listened as the sub disintegrated under the crushing pressure of the sea. The Navy inquiry found weaknesses in...
Missing Sindhuratna Sailors Dead: Bodies Found in Compartment of Submarine Where Fire Broke OutPathak, Manish K
Traces of titanium found on salvaged trawl cables of the trawler “are not significative of the involvement of a submarine” as “apart from two Russian submarines built in the sixties the protective coating of submarines is exempt of any kind of titanium”, their report said. The experts point...
It had issues with accuracy and detonation. Many sailors endured the frustrating experience of listening to a torpedo hit the hull of an enemy ship only to fail to explode. But eventually the Mark 18 torpedo came around and fixed some of those issues. ...
missing the carrier. But after clearing theHancock, the hapless plane careened into the fantail of theHalsey Powelljust aft of the number five gun. A gasoline fire broke out in the living and the steerage control compartments. With the steerage damaged, the destroyer lo...
Datta, Saikat
The 400-ton craft, commissioned in 1911, was the biggest in the pre-revolutionary fleet and is though to be the first submarine in the world that was capable of firing a volley of several torpedoes. It was dispatched on a mission in 1915 with 35 sailors aboard but never returned to port...