MuseumShip Blog

75 years ago today, on 10 April 1951 Gato-class submarine USS Cavalla SS-244 was commissioned for the second time, LCDR M.C. Duncan commanding. She was assigned to Submarine Squadron 8 and engaged in various fleet exercises in the Caribbean and off Nova Scotia.
MuseumShip at Galveston naval Museum, Galveston,. TX

65 years ago today, on April 10 1961. Cargo ship MS Cap San Diego was laid down for the Hamburg South America Steamship Company at the Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, Germany
MuseumShip Cap San Diego, Hamburg, Germany

On 10 April 1971 Soviet Foxtrot class Scorpion (B-427) was laid down at Sudomekh Shipyard Leningrad.