Summary and 4 Points You Need to Know: The USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23), one of three Seawolf-class submarines, is a highly specialized spy submarine capable of conducting seabed warfare and ...

By all accounts former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday at age 100, was thrilled when he, as a former naval officer and submariner, found out in the late 1990s that the U.S. Navy would ...

BANGOR — Former President Jimmy Carter visited Kitsap County on Friday to participate in a change-of-command ceremony for his namesake submarine at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor. The 39th president ...

Editor's note: The late President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, is the only U.S. President to have graduated from the Naval Academy and qualified on submarines, and in 2005 a Seawolf ...

Not long after Jimmy Carter’s 1977 inauguration, ... He has a submarine named in his honor, but a submarine is not a capital ship with the aura of, say, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.

As part of a National Day of Mourning in honor of President Jimmy Carter, the Naval Submarine Base in New London conducted a 21-gun salute on Thursday. “We are very proud to use our facility to ...

Meet the USS Jimmy Carter. A report published by The Drive indicates that a modified Virginia-class submarine variant capable of carrying out seabed warfare might be in the midst.

Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president known as a champion of international human rights both during and after his White House tenure and who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his lifetime of ...

In the early 1950s, Carter interviewed for the Navy’s new nuclear submarine service, where its legendary founder, Adm. Hyman Rickover grilled him on everything from Shakespeare and opera to ...

Carter attended submarine school in New London and served at the submarine base for 4 years. In 2004, the former president returned to New London with his wife to christen the USS Jimmy Carter.

It is the U.S. Jimmy Carter (SSN-23), a nuclear-powered attack submarine that was commissioned in February 2005. It is just one of three Seawolf-class subs in service, but also the only one ...