History of Submarines - Polar Operations

Polar Operations

  • 1903 - Simon Lake's submarine Protector surfaced through ice off Newport, Rhode Island.
  • 1930 - USS O-12 operated under ice near Spitsbergen.
  • 1937 - Soviet submarine Krasnogvardeyets operated under ice in the Denmark Strait.
  • 1941–45 - German U-boats operated under ice from the Barents Sea to the Laptev Sea.
  • 1946 - USS Atule used upward-beamed fathometer in Operation Nanook in the Davis Strait.
  • 1946–47 - USS Sennet used under-ice SONAR in Operation High Jump in the Antarctic.
  • 1947 - USS Boarfish used upward-beamed echo sounder under pack ice in the Chukchi Sea.
  • 1948 - USS Carp developed techniques for making vertical ascents and descents through polynyas in the Chukchi Sea.
  • 1952 - USS Redfish used an expanded upward-beamed sounder array in the Beaufort Sea.
  • 1957 - USS Nautilus reached 87 degrees north near Spitsbergen.
  • 3 August 1958 - Nautilus used an inertial navigation system to reach the north pole.
  • 17 March 1959 - USS Skate surfaced through the ice at the north pole.
  • 1960 - USS Sargo transited 900 miles under ice over the shallow (125 to 180 feet deep) Bering-Chukchi shelf.
  • 1960 - USS Seadragon transited the Northwest Passage under ice.
  • 1962 - Soviet November-class submarine Leninskiy Komsomol reached the north pole.
  • 1971 - HMS Dreadnought reached the north pole.
  • 6 May 1986 - USS Ray, USS Hawkbill, and USS Archerfish, as part of LANTSUBICEX '86, surfaced together at the North Pole. First multi-submarine surfacing in history.
  • 19 May 1987 - HMS Superb joined USS Billfish and USS Sea Devil at the North Pole. The first time British and Americans met at the North Pole.
  • March 2007 - USS Alexandria participated in the Joint U.S. Navy/Royal Navy Ice Exercise 2007 (ICEX-2007) in the Arctic Ocean with the Trafalgar-class submarine HMS Tireless.

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