What is the most famous submarine that you can think of ?

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pmsteph	Yellow Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Jane S	the Thesis sank in Liverpool bay during trials killing all on board, raised, renamed the Thunderbolt, sent to sea sank Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

nosnibor_jay	The YELLOW SUBMARINE Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

taketwo	belgrano Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

glennyswiggin	YELLOW Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

j man	red october Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

dodgygeezer66	Thunderbird 4 does that count? Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

intelligent_observer	Kursk, sadly. Maybe also USS Thresher and the K2 - submarines can be dangerous places to work. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Pretorian	STINGRAY...part of WASP (World Aquatic Submarine Patrol). Captained by my uncle Troy Tempest, First Mate 'Phones' & my auntie Marina...who liked to swim a bit. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

me_from_my_place	k9 Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

?	USS Huntley Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

lana_sands	USS Wahoo(ss238), One the top scoring subs of WW2. WAHOO was one of the Submarine Force’s most valuable units during her six patrols, and her feats have become submarine legend. She sank 27 ships, totaling 119,100 tons, and damaged two more, making 24,900 tons, in the six patrols completed before her loss. Her patrolling career began in August 1942 in the Carolines. On this patrol WAHOO sank a freighter. Her second patrol was in the Solomons, and she sank a freighter. WAHOO conducted her third patrol in the Palau area. She sank two large freighters, a transport, a tanker, and an escort vessel. In addition, she entered Wewak harbor, on the north coast of New Guinea, seriously damaged a destroyer, which was later found beached there, and obtained reconnaissance data. For her fourth patrol, WAHOO went to the Yellow Sea west of Korea. Here she sank eight freighters, a tanker, a patrol craft and two sampans in March 1943. Going to the Kurile chain for her fifth patrol, WAHOO sank two freighters and a large tanker, also doing damage to another freighter and a large (15,600-ton) aircraft transport. The sixth war patrol of WAHOO was the disappointing one in the Japan Sea due to poor torpedo performance. Not one of the many attacks on merchantmen resulted in a torpedo hit; WAHOO’s only sinkings were of three sampans by gunfire. WAHOO was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for her third patrol. Commander Morton was considered one of the topnotch officers in the submarine force, and the loss of this ship was in irreparable blow to the Service. She was sunk OCT11, 1943 in the La Perouse Strait. 80 hands lost....... The Nautilus (SSN571), by the way is famous also for being the first ship to travel from the Pacfic to Atlantic via the North pole in 1958. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

johnstrangey	kursk and vanguard (i served on it ) Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

cyclops	Huntley Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

bert	U534,boarded her Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

mick	Kursk. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

marzmargs12	swordfish Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

barrettins	The Beatles "Yellow Submarine" is well known. Personally I like Submarine sandwiches. In fiction we have the Nautilis commanded by Captain Nemo. Off course "Red October" is famous and from the same movie USS Dallas (a real submarine) became note worthy. The first submarine used successfully in war was the CSS Hunley in the Civil War. USS Nauitilis was the first nuclear powered submarine and the first to go under the North Pole. And i do believe President Carter served on the Nautilis in his early days in the Navy. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

emmiemoo	red sonja Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Bealzebub	Drebbel, was the first successful sub built in 1620. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Greggers H	The Red October (only Soviet Sub captained by a Scotsman!) Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Jazz Q	USS Nautalis,, umm im not that good in spelling, and the Yellow submarine Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

brian L	As individual subs go the nautilus not only because of her accomplishments but because she is named after capt.nemo's fictional sub so it comes to mind easily. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

gsschulte	Nautilus it was the first nuclear Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

jesusdoggystyle	.Kursk Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Polo	Dreadnought. Builder: Vickers Armstrong Limited - Barrow-in-Furness. Yard Number: 1062 Pennant number: S101 Ordered: 1958 Laid down: 12.06.1958 by H.R.H. Duke of Edinburgh. Launched: 21.10.1960 by Her Majesty the Queen. Commissioned: 17.04.1963 by Commander B.F.P. Sambourne RN. Dimensions (in feet and inches): Length 265 feet 9 inches, Width 32 feet, Draught 27 feet. Displacement: Surface: 3,500 tons, Submerged: 4,000 tons. Propulsion: Single Westinghouse S5W nuclear Reactor. 2 Westinghouse steam turbines geared to a single shaft = 15,000 shp. Speed: Surface: 21 knots, submerged: 30 knots. Endurance: Unlimited. Armaments: 5 x 21 inch Torpedo Tubes. 30 mark VIII torpedoes, later Mk 23. Complement: 11 officers, 77 ratings. Historical Data For obvious reasons, Dreadnought spent a great deal of her first commission carrying out a multitude of trials on her new equipment, and exercising with various units of the Royal Navy and the United States Navy. There were however some notable firsts in the five years of her first commission in which she steamed around 144,000 sea miles. Visits to Norfolk VA, Bermuda, Southampton, Rotterdam and Kiel. August 1965 Home Fleet Review, Clyde. Visited by Her Majesty the Queen, HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, HRH Prince Charles, Princess Anne and six Admirals. July 1967. Sank the disabled and drifting chemical tanker Essberger Chemist carrying 6,000 gallons of acetone and alcohol, with four Mk VIII torpedoes. Important Dates September 19th to October 17th 1967 High speed passage from Faslane submarine base in Scotland to Lankawi via the Cape. Exercises with Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy units. November 18th to December 15th 1967 High speed passage Singapore - Faslane. A round trip of 31,185 miles. March 31st 1968 Families day in the Firth of Forth. First ever in a nuclear submarine. April 1st 1968 Rosyth Dockyard, Scotland. Paid off for the first refit and refuel of a nuclear submarine in the United Kingdom. September 10th 1970 Recommissioned - one year late. March 3rd 1971 First British submarine to surface at the North Pole. December 1st 1980 Dreadnought suffered cracks in her secondary cooling system requiring a complete shut down of her reactor. This led to the decision to take the submarine out of active service, due to the cost of repair. Dreadnought's design drawings and her then new sonar technology were among the secrets sold to the Russians by the "Portland Spy Ring" of the 1960's. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Phil J	HMS Conqueror - the ship that sank the Argentinian cruiser the General Belgrano during the Falklands War in 1982. When this vessel returned to her home port of Faslane she flew the Jolly Roger, traditionally flown by Royal Navy ships that have had a confirmed 'kill' in battle. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

jaketherake	kursk Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

planksheer	Let's see, the IJN I-58, the U-555, the USS TANG, USS SCORPION, THRESHER, the IDF DAKAR, the USS WAHOO, the U-107, the U-20, and its the CSS HUNLEY, not HUNTLY. USS SKIPJACK, ALBACORE, SEAWOLF, come to mind. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Ross B	HMS Conqueror, The Yellow One CSS Huntley Skipjack German Wolfpack's in General The Kursk Oh and the UK Sub Rescue Service who saved the Russian crew in 2005. Just one point of fact to Buzzin Benny. Hollywood History lesson 101 U571 was captured and borded by the British ( YES THE BRITISH ) hence we cracked Enigma at Bletchley Park. Hollywood just thought it would look better if Jon "bon fu'ckin" Jovi stared in it as a hero as opposed to his everyday mantle as a twat ! Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

D	The Royal Navy's HMS Conqueror, decommissioned in 1990. The only nuclear-powered submarine to have attacked a ship with its torpedoes: successfully sinking the General Belgrano (which, interestingly, had survived the Pearl Harbour attacks decades before), and returned to base with the Jolly Roger flying. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No