"The Unlucky Soviet Nuclear Submarine K-19, ..." Topic

…Nicknamed "Hiroshima.

"The misfortunes of the Soviet nuclear submarine K-19 could fit into some mariner's folk tales of bad luck at sea. Even during its construction, a series of freak accidents plagued the dockyard workers who were assigned to make the K-19 seaworthy.

In the late 1950s, the Soviet Union was rushing to catch up with American nuclear submarine development, and the K-19 was intended to be the first of its class. The submarine was equipped with nuclear ballistic missiles capable of delivering severe blows to the US coastline.

The project was of great importance as, in 1961 when the submarine made its first voyage, the Cold War was on the brink of becoming thermonuclear. The construction was progressed hastily, which led to ten deaths before the submarine was completed in the shipyard of Severodnivsk in the far north of the USSR…"
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Amicalement
Armand

The movie is good, but they changed the true story so much that you might as well consider it fictional.

Those guys might have saluted a different flag, but:

Lord God, our power evermore
Whose arm doth reach the ocean floor
Dive with our men beneath the sea
Traverse the depths protectively
O hear us when we pray, and keep
them safe from peril in the deep.

If I'm ever in the Baltic, I plan on laying a wreath at the Kursk site.

LitS,
Amen to that. It doesn't matter what flag you fly; the sea is an equal opportunity killer.
BWW

Another 'Amen' to Lion's verse.

The Kursk went down in the Barents sea, not the Baltic. Still, the sentiment I share with you Lion. This was disaster that all submariners fear- godspeed to the souls who sailed her.

+1 Lion. At times when I'm crewing on a friend's sailboat, I often am reminded of the Breton fishermen's prayer.

Oh God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.

Godspeed to all who travel in the deep waters….