A port quarter view of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS ALEXANDRIA (SSN-757) underway during post-commissioning trials off Andros Island, Bahamas. The Alexandria was commissioned on June 29, 1991.

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A port quarter view of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS ALEXANDRIA (SSN-757) underway during post-commissioning trials off Andros Island, Bahamas. The Alexandria was commissioned on June 29, 1991.

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Country: Atlantic Ocean(AOC)

Scene Camera Operator: F. E. Zimmerman

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Submarines!

Beginning in ancient times, humans sought to operate under the water. The legendary origins of the submarine stretch back to 332 BC with a tale about Alexander the Great being lowered into the sea in a glass barrel to study fish. The submarine concept was thereafter consigned to the backwaters of history for some 1,800 years. This collection presents various submarines: from small and simple to nuclear-powered underwater behemoths.