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Current status: Not on displayNR-1's control room equipment is now an interactive 3D model! Click here or on the image above to explore the model. This artifact was digitized and derived into a digital 3D model by The Arc/k Project.   In May 2018, the U.S. Naval...

Current status: Not on display American submarines played a crucial role in the Pacific theatre during World War II. Most U.S. submarines served in the Pacific, patrolling and hunting enemy ships. Between December 1941, when the United States entered World War II, and...

Can you think of a symbol that has immediate meaning for you? Maybe it’s the American flag, the logo of your favorite sports team, or your college mascot. For the men and women of the Submarine Force, it’s the submarine warfare insignia, known informally as submarine...

Current status: On exhibitExhibit: "Search, Spy, Rescue, Recover: Navy Vehicles Under the Sea"   This ocean floor sediment in the U.S. Naval Undersea Museum's collection (left) comes from the final resting place of the fast attack submarine USS Scorpion (SSN...

Current status: On exhibitExhibit: "Saving Submariners" The submarine rescue chamber (SRC) was developed in the early 1930s to rescue submariners from downed submarines. One was famously used in May 1939 to save 33 men trapped in sunken USS Squalus (SS 192). The Navy...

Current status: Not on display The MK 7 Mod 6 swimmer delivery vehicle (SDV) was used by Navy Special Operations Forces (SOF) and Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs) during the late 1960s and early 1970s, including during the Vietnam War. SDVs are small, free-flooding...

Current status: On exhibitLocation: Outdoors Trieste II (DSV 1) was a Navy deep submarine vehicle that performed undersea research and tasks, including examining the remains of USS Scorpion (SSN 589) in 1969 and carrying out a now-declassified secret recovery...

Current status: On exhibitLocation: Outdoors Deep submergence rescue vehicle (DSRV) Mystic provided rapid-response submarine rescue capability to the U.S. Navy from 1970 to 2008. In the event of a submarine accident, Mystic or her sister submersible Avalon could be...

Current status: Not on display Submarine battle flags emerged during World War II as a way of marking the number of enemy ships a submarine sank. The designs and symbols used in these unofficial records varied, as each battle flag was individually sewn by the crew of...

Current status: On exhibitExhibit: "Torpedo Technology" USS Tecumseh (SSBN 628) was a James Madison-class ballistic missile submarine. She was built by the Electric Boat Company in 1962, launched June 22, 1963, and commissioned on May 29, 1964. As an SSBN, Tecumseh...