Category Archives: US Submarines/Submarine Tenders etc

US Navy transfers first Virginia Payload Module of USS Arizona submarine for final assembly

General Dynamics Electric Boat transferred the first completed 184-foot Virginia Payload Module section for the future USS Arizona from Quonset Point, Rhode Island, to Groton, Connecticut. The 10,200-ton Block V submarine hull incorporates an 83-foot-long midships extension that houses four large-diameter payload tubes. This structural integration increases the vessel’s vertical launch capacity to 40 Tomahawk-classContinue reading “US Navy transfers first Virginia Payload Module of USS Arizona submarine for final assembly”

USS Delaware (SSN 791) visits Grøtsund, Norway. Sept 1, 2026.

Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard wraps up dry dock phase of North Carolina Maintenance

25 August 2026 Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PHNSY & IMF) successfully undocked Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777), Aug. 12, 2026, clearing a critical benchmark in the undersea asset’s scheduled lifecycle maintenance period. North Carolina has been at the shipyard undergoing restoration and modernization, and this undocking evolution marksContinue reading “Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard wraps up dry dock phase of North Carolina Maintenance”

US Navy attack submarine Massachusetts completes shakedown trials

Will XavierPublished on: 18 Aug 2026, 3:45 pm The US Navy said that it has completed shakedown trials on the Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) USS Massachusetts and that the submarine is ready for fleet tasking. The navy remarked that, “as a result of the superb material condition and combat readiness,” is waived the post-shakedown availability of the SSN.Continue reading “US Navy attack submarine Massachusetts completes shakedown trials”

Plunger/A-1 (SS-2) was one of the earliest submarines of the United States Navy.

She was the lead boat of Plunger class and later renamed A-1 when she was designated an A-type submarine. She is not to be confused with the experimental submarine Plunger (1897) which was evaluated by the US Navy from 1898 to 1900, but not accepted or commissioned. Design The Plunger-class submarines were enlarged and improved versions of the preceding Holland, the first submarine in the USN. They had aContinue reading “Plunger/A-1 (SS-2) was one of the earliest submarines of the United States Navy.”