Navy Seawolf-Class Spy Submarine USS Jimmy Carter Left Port in January 2013. Less Than 2 Months Later She Surfaced Off Pearl Harbor Needing Repairs. What Happened Earned a Presidential Unit Citation

Navy Seawolf-Class Spy Submarine USS Jimmy Carter Left Port in January 2013. Less Than 2 Months Later She Surfaced Off Pearl Harbor Needing Repairs. What Happened Earned a Presidential Unit Citation

USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23), the third and last Seawolf-class boat, was ordered in June 1996 largely to keep the shipyard’s welders employed between the last Los Angeles-class submarine in 1996 and the first Virginia-class keel in 1999. Then the Navy ordered a change: a 100-foot “hourglass” section spliced in behind the sail, a four-foot pressurized tube running through a seawater-filled hangar, a moon pool for divers, and bow and stern thrusters …