On January 23, 1968, the USS Pueblo, a Navy intelligence
vessel, was engaged in a routine surveillance of the North
Korean coast when it was intercepted by North Korean
patrol boats.

According to U.S. reports, the Pueblo was in international
waters almost 16 miles from shore, but the North Koreans
turned their guns on the lightly armed vessel and demanded
its surrender.

The Americans attempted to escape, and the North Koreans
opened fire, wounding the commander and two others.

With capture inevitable, the Americans stalled for time,
destroying the classified information aboard while taking
further fire. Several more crew members were wounded.

These men were hailed as heroes and returned home to
the United States in time for Christmas.

Lloyd Mark "Pete" Bucher 
(September 1, 1927 – January 28, 2004)
    
   

   
The USS Pueblo is now on display at a North Korean war
museum.

 
CARLATA BRADLEY

A Russian nuclear submarine sank to the bottom of the Barents
Sea on August 12, 2000; all 118 crew members are later found
dead. The exact cause of the disaster remains unknown.

Kursk left port on August 10 to take part in war games with the
Russian military. Russian ships, planes and submarines met
up in the Barents Sea, which is above the Arctic Circle, to
practice military maneuvers.

PT-109 was a US Navy patrol torpedo boat commanded by
Lieutenant (junior grade) John F. Kennedy during World War
II in the Solomon Islands.

His actions in rescuing his crew after the sinking earned him
a Navy and  Marine Corps Medal and contributed to his later
political career.             
         
        
   
     
       
         
     
       
        
       

PT-109, a film dramatizing this story, starring Cliff
Robertson as Kennedy, opened in 1963.

A lifeboat full of survivors from the ill-fated Andrea Doria
which is sinking in the background.

At 11:10 p.m. on July 25, 1956, 45 miles south of Nantucket
Island, the Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria and the Swedish
ocean liner Stockholm collided in a heavy Atlantic fog. Fifty-
one passengers and crew were killed in the collision, which
ripped a great hole in the broad side of the Italian vessel.

The badly damaged Stockholm limped into New York
and offloaded its passengers, along with survivors
from the Andrea Doria. It proceeded to the Bethlehem
Steel Shipyard in New Jersey where it was fitted with
a brand new bow.

(FOX NEWS) – A team of researchers recently discovered a
historic bow that was blown off a World War II U.S. Navy
ship during a historic battle that took place nearly 83 years
ago.

The long-lost bow — which was torn off the USS New Orleans
in the Battle of Tassafaronga in November 1942 — was found
around 2,200 feet underwater in the Solomon Islands’ Iron
Bottom Sound, according to a news release from the Ocean
Exploration Trust.

The bow of USS New Orleans sits on the seafloor of Iron
Bottom Sound in the Solomon Islands.

The structure and stamps on the base of the anchor helped researchers confirm the identity of the bow.