Category: Missions
07/24/10
02:42:54 pm by halibut, Categories: Missions, China, News, Chinese Submarines, American History, ASW United States maritime surveillance ship USNS Impeccable (T-AGOS 23)1 was harassed by a handful of smaller Chinese ships while openly conducting operations in the South China Sea, approximately 75 nautical miles south of Hainan Island, China (aerial map). more »
05/27/10
10/28/07
01:54:26 am by halibut, Categories: American Submarines, Missions, Books, This Day In History, Deep Submergence Vehicles, Russian Submarines , Tags: all hands down, books, compass island, edward offley, glomar explorer, halibut, jerome preisler, k-129, kenneth sewell, project jennifer, pueblo, scorpion, scorpion down, seawolf, ssn 575, ssn 587, ssn 589, submarines On this day, October 28, 1968, the USNS Mizar (T-AGOR-11) towed her magnetometer and cameras over a sunken wreckage two miles below. Two days later the United States Navy declared to the world that the sunken USS Scorpion (SSN 589) had been located.
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09/11/06
Halibut leaving Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, in route to the Sea of Okhotsk, circa 1974, to conduct operations. *
The Marin Headlands are on the left (north), San Francisco on the right (south), Angel Island, Alcatraz Island and Be… more »
09/09/06
Ben Bradlee, former executive editor for the Washington Post, refers to a Halibut (SSN 587) mission. Bradlee, in a 2005 interview with Public Broadcast System's (PBS) Jim Lehrer, highlights the tension that exsists between a duty to publish and national… more »
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