The Great State of Rhode Island Once Again Victorious!!

Storm Damaged Russian Submarine Sinks at Providence Pier

PROVIDENCE – “The Russian Sunken Sub Museum” is how engineer Damon Ise answered the phone this morning.
Yes, sometime in the evening, the listing submarine laid over on its side and sank, Ise said.
All that’s visible is the submarine’s periscope, sticking up out of the water at an angle, a radio antenna and one of the sub’s orange life buoys, Ise said.
“One of those [buoys] is bouncing and dancing on the surface, and then there’s just a trail of bubbles coming from the front,” he said. “It’s very sad.”
No fuel is leaking from the vessel, Ise said, and crews are working already on a salvage plan with a professional from New York.
Exactly what shape that salvage plan would take is, well, murky at this point, museum officials said today.
The vessel, berthed at Collier Point Park, had been battered by the storm that hit the region early this week. It had been restored as a floating museum after being bought in 2002.
By midday, TV crews and other members of the press joined several Coast Guard officers and staff of the submarine museum at the small, windswept park overlooking Providence Harbor.
Lines ran along the dock, down to the sub, holding it in place on the bottom. The antenna, and a small, pipelike-protusion stuck up from the relatively calm surface of the water...
Nearby, a sign for Cardi's Furniture -- featuring the three Cardi brothers in sailor suits – urged visitors to follow safety tips, some of which were painfully obvious today:
"Be sure to use caution when in the sub" and "Appropriate footwear required; decks may be slippery."

Here is the link to the Official website of the sub. It was an active enemy combatant, originally called the K-77 - and was thought to have stalked the USS Saratoga, maintaining it as one of its prime targets during the cold war. It is of note that the decommissioned Saratoga is currently also located in Rhode Island a very few miles from the sub that stalked it.

http://www.juliett484.org/juliett/index.html

In later years, the K-77 was used in the filming of the movie "K-19: The Widowmaker", staring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson.

Finally, this Russian masterpiece of technology, this evil warrior of death, this tool of the evil empire (no, not the Yankees .. the OTHER evil empire) found it's way to Rhode Island, where it was used as a museum until early yesterday, when it was sent to the bottom ... to the BRINEY DEEP.

Thus, it becomes the second submarine that has been sunk in RI waters... the other being the German U-Boat called U-853 which was sunk off the coast of Point Judith. It was, in fact, the LAST U-BOAT THAT WAS SUNK IN WORLD WAR II. This was because the captain of said U-Boat never got the message that the Germans had stopped fighting.

As a result, it was announced yesterday the the Rhode Island State flag will be once again amended to update our "kills".

This, therefore, brings the tally to the totals listed below. All I can say is ...if you need something belatedly sent to the bottom of the ocean, we're JUST the people for the job....