As the newly-commissioned USS Squalus submarine was sunk 240 feet below the waters near the New Hampshire and Maine coast after a test run, 33 US Navy sailors and enlisted men only had hours before ...

The submarine USS Squalus was sunk by accident during a 1939 training dive off the coast of Portsmouth, N.H. Two years later, after being salvaged and refitted, the Squalus was renamed the USS ...

A dramatization of the only successful submarine rescue in U.S. history is NBC's choice to draw Sunday TV movie fans. Submerged is based on The Terrible Hours, Peter Maas' best seller about the rescue ...

Few people can know the terror that the Russian sailors aboard the Kursk felt when the nuclear submarine sank in the Bering Sea last August. Most of the people in the ...

1917 - The first U.S. convoy left Hampton Roads, Va. to cross the North Atlantic after entering World War I. During the 18 months of war while American vessels escort convoys through the war zone, 183 ...

Based on the best-selling book by Peter Maas, Submerged tells the story of the first submarine rescue in history: that of the crew of the USS Squalus, on 23 May 1939, and of the man who effected the ...