USS Augusta (SSN-710)
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USS Augusta, a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Augusta, Maine. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General
US Navy 050908 N 0653J 003 Sailors aboard the Los Angeles class attack submarine USS Augusta work together to moor their submarine to the pier
Soviet submarine K-219
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K-219 was a Project 667A Navaga-class ballistic missile submarine of the Soviet Navy. It carried 16 R-27U liquid-fuel missiles powered by UDMH with nitrogen tetroxide. K-219 was involved in what has b
USS Augusta (SSN-710)
…on 13 December 1986. The Soviet Navy claims that on 3 October 1986, Augusta collided with the 667AU Nalim (Yankee-I) class ballistic missile submarine K-219, commanded by Igor Britanov, off the coast of Bermuda. The U.S. Navy states that K-219 was disabled by an internal explosion. CBS news reported that…
US Navy photo of K-219 on the surface after suffering a fire in a missile tube