USS San Francisco (SSN-711): Damaged But Never Broken

<div style="text-align: justify;">USS San Francisco (SSN-711), a Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine, is the third ship or boat of the United States Navy to be named for San Francisco, California.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSKFocJCE4NXdTK2XZazUYJ3MLxcfY7B3HFYgxBnq6r5a8_mPi1WC3Rb7nTL4DOz41ysLgaBDsvuM_x0GB1IZ14qiHxRwD80sCRioDTSGsq7hBj1_tFBjcApx6liaonf4dK-eTNBdFR1Y/s1600/1311781142_1010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSKFocJCE4NXdTK2XZazUYJ3MLxcfY7B3HFYgxBnq6r5a8_mPi1WC3Rb7nTL4DOz41ysLgaBDsvuM_x0GB1IZ14qiHxRwD80sCRioDTSGsq7hBj1_tFBjcApx6liaonf4dK-eTNBdFR1Y/s640/1311781142_1010.jpg" width="640"></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On 8 January 2005 at 02:43 GMT, San Francisco collided with an undersea mountain about 675 kilometers (364 Nautical Miles, 420 statute miles) south-east of Guam while operating at maximum speed and more than 500 feet (150 m) deep. The collision was so serious that the vessel was almost lost. Detail shown a desperate struggle for positive buoyancy to surface after the forward ballast tanks were ruptured</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimtrbxkOJMo_29-J1n_y_EWWMGScpUVC7uz2TQ6pG-YlzgCsXOaOSt6ONQu2_Bu1q1R3aSHKfX0jYpzu0dsHHnlElM_KYpOLOywkbYL3-Z_-DjeE11SckjzlyfBx2-IyjXVvKOVU_xYYI/s1600/1311781148_1001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimtrbxkOJMo_29-J1n_y_EWWMGScpUVC7uz2TQ6pG-YlzgCsXOaOSt6ONQu2_Bu1q1R3aSHKfX0jYpzu0dsHHnlElM_KYpOLOywkbYL3-Z_-DjeE11SckjzlyfBx2-IyjXVvKOVU_xYYI/s640/1311781148_1001.jpg" width="640"></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/08/uss-san-francisco-ssn-711-damaged-but.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

USS San Francisco (SSN-711): Damaged But Never Broken

USS San Francisco (SSN-711), a Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine, is the third ship or boat of the United States Navy to be named for San ...

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