Three nuclear submarines are known to have been lost. The first was the American Tresher, an attack submarine that sank in the Atlantic in 1963 with its entire crew. The cause is believed to have been a joint failure in a water pipe that caused electrical shorts. The second was also an American atomic submarine, the second Scorpion (the first had become the George Washington). The Scorpion lost body and belongings some 400 miles southeast of the Azores in 1968, but no official explanation has ever been given about it.
Unlike the Sunken Scorpion with its 99 sailors, the entire crew of the Russian 'November' class attack submarine, lost some 150 miles southwest of the British Isles, are believed to have been rescued. This submarine had obviously suffered serious damage, probably following a collision with a Russian warship, and had been seen under tow shortly before it sank. In 1972, a Russian nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine of the "Hotel II" type ran into trouble in the North Atlantic, but within 24 hours 19 Russian warships and merchant ships had arrived to its rescue. which is remarkable — and it is believed to have been able to reenter Russia on the surface.
It has been a little over twenty years since the first submarine first sailed under the he effect of nuclear propulsion and the development of this weapon is something fantastic. Perhaps in the future we will see a large part of the world's maritime traffic carried out by giant submarines and, in this case, most navies will have to become submarine fleets.
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