Current status: On display Exhibit: "Torpedo Technology" The MK 48 ADCAP torpedo is the U.S. Navy’s current submarine-launched torpedo. This heavyweight, acoustic-homing torpedo has sophisticated sonar and all-digital guidance-and-control systems; its digital guidance...
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Whitehead MK 1 Torpedo
Current status: On display Exhibit: "Torpedo Technology" The cold-running Whitehead was the world’s first self-propelled torpedo, and the model from which all future design concepts originated. It was employed by navies throughout the world including — eventually —...
Howell Torpedo
Current status: On display Exhibit: "Torpedo Technology" The Howell torpedo was the first self-propelled torpedo developed by the United States and used in service in the U.S. Navy. It was powered by a 10,000-rpm flywheel that doubled as a stabilizing gyroscope....
Sealab II End Bell
Current status: On display Location: Outdoors The Sealab undersea habitats were groundbreaking experiments conducted by the Navy between 1964 and 1969. Navy scientist Dr. George F. Bond developed and led the Sealab projects to test and demonstrate the concept of...
Navy One-Man One-Atmosphere Diving System (NOMOADS)
Current status: Not on display The Navy One-Man One-Atmosphere Diving System (NOMOADS) was an atmospheric diving suit modified and tested by the U.S. Navy in the 1980s and early 1990s. NOMOADS was a modification of the commercial atmospheric diving system JIM. The JIM...
USS Ethan Allen (SSBN 608) Model Kit
Current status: Not on display This model kit, containing parts to build a model of ballistic missile submarine USS Ethan Allen (SSBN 608), was released in the early 1960s around the time of Ethan Allen's August 1961 commissioning. Ethan Allen was the sixth ballistic...
Deep Drone
Remotely operated vehicle Deep Drone was a Navy-built ROV used for deep ocean salvage and emergency rescue missions in the 1970s and 1980s. It was the first in a series of three Deep Drone vehicles. Today the Navy operates the third-generation Deep Drone 8000.
CURV III
Current status: On exhibit Exhibit: "Search, Spy, Rescue, Recover: Navy Vehicles Under the Sea" CURV III is the fourth in a family of cable-controlled underwater recovery vehicles (CURV) developed and used by the U.S. Navy. The Naval Undersea Research and Development...
USS Petrel Football Helmet
Current status: Not on display View a digital 3D model of this artifact here On the morning of January 17, 1966, an American B-52 bomber flew over southeast Spain carrying four hydrogen bombs. The aircraft was one of several patrolling European skies with nuclear...
Donna Tobias: The Navy’s First Female Deep Sea Diver
HMCS (DV) Chris West was the Senior Instructor of the COMNAVSURFLANT Second Class Diving School in 1974 when his friend Del Strode asked him to speak with a young hull technician who wanted to go to dive school. Strode had been highly impressed by the young...