On October 24, 1944, during World War II, the USS Tang sank off the coast of China. The submarine was destroyed by its own ...

The USS Silversides submarine sank 23 ships during World War II. It was also the site of a successful emergency appendectomy in enemy waters.

The incident made naval history because this was the only sub to have survivors ascend during an emergency without surface assistance by using the Momsen lung, a crude breathing device stored on ...

When Navy ships zigzagged, they made it more difficult for submarines to target them with torpedoes because the movement made their route unpredictable.