Submarine

. SUBMARINE Written and directed by: Richard Ayoade, based on a novel by Joe Dunthorne Starring: Craig Roberts, Noah Taylor, Sally Hawkins, Yasmin Paige, Paddy Considine At: Kendall Square Running time: 97 minutes Rated: R (language, some sexual content) By a fluke of the release schedule, two adolescent coming-of-age movies open in the Boston area today, but only “Submarine’’ is worth your time. (The other is the toothless fake-indie “The Art of Getting By.’’)

Firefighters battled for 12 hours to quell a fire inside a nuclear-powered US Navy submarine in the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, officials said. Seven people, including five firefighters, sustained minor injuries. "The fire spread to spaces within the submarine that were difficult to access. The heat and smoke contained in these confined spaces made it challenging for firefighters to combat the blaze," said Rear Admiral Rick Breckenridge, commander of the submarine group that includes the USS Miami, in a statement on Thursday.

PROVIDENCE -- An old Soviet submarine used as a floating museum sank and was completely submerged in the Providence River after being battered by a powerful northeaster earlier this week. All that could be seen of the Russian Sub Museum yesterday was about 2 feet of its periscope, and workers said it could be months before it is open again. "We got hit with a freak storm with astronomical high tides," the ship's engineer, Damon Ise, said. A tidal surge paired with direct and powerful easterly winds from the storm Sunday and Monday pushed the sub up onto a shoal adjacent to where it is...

A provision pushed by U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin (LAN'-juh-vinn) that would maintain current submarine production levels could soon be voted on by the full House of Representatives in Washington. The office of the Rhode Island Democrat says the measure, contained in the National Defense Authorization Act, could get a vote Thursday or Friday Langevin and Joe Courtney of Connecticut are trying to prevent a proposed cut in funding for Virginia-class submarine production. The Obama administration's budget funds one submarine, rather than two, in 2014.

The Navy is counting down to the christening of the submarine Mississippi at a shipyard in Groton. Officials including Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus are expected to attend the ceremony on Dec. 3 at General Dynamics Electric Boat. Construction on the Virginia-class attack submarine began in February 2007. It's expected to be commissioned at a ceremony next June in Gulfport, Mississippi. The sub is the fifth Navy vessel to carry the name Mississippi. Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia take turns delivering the Virginia-class subs, which cost about...

The US Navy has held a keel-laying ceremony for the Virginia-class submarine North Dakota at Electric Boat's shipyard at Quonset Point. Electric Boat is a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corp. in Falls Church, Va. The company employs more than 10,000 workers at Quonset and Groton, Conn., where the Navy has a submarine base and school. US Representatives James Langevin of Rhode Island and Joe Courtney of Connecticut have been pushing to prevent a proposed cut in funding for Virginia-class submarine production.

A committee planning the Southeastern Connecticut Submarine Force Birthday Ball is taking inspiration from television talent shows. It is putting on a contest at the MGM Grand Hotel at Foxwoods Resort to find the best singer to perform the national anthem. The winner will sing at the group's 112th birthday ball in Groton on April 14. Submarine school instructor Barry Williamson says organizers are hoping the contest will stir interest in the event. The contest is open to all active-duty military and retirees as well as the general public.

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - The Navy has confirmed the wreckage of a sunken vessel found last year off the Aleutians Islands is that of the USS Grunion, which disappeared during World War II. Underwater video footage and pictures captured by an expedition hired by sons of the commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Mannert L. Abele, allowed the Navy to confirm the discovery, Rear Admiral Douglas McAneny said Thursday. "We hope this announcement will help to give closure to the families of the 70 crewmen of Grunion," McAneny said.

President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday that his navy detected a submarine in Venezuelan waters and that it quickly sped off. The submarine was detected on Tuesday near the Venezuelan island of La Orchila in the Caribbean north of Caracas, where Venezuelan troops are participating in training drills near the island, Chavez told state television by telephone. "It was pursued. It escaped because it's much faster than ours," Chavez said, referring to Venezuela's diesel-powered submarines.

NEW YORK - Rear Admiral Maurice H. Rindskopf, the youngest commander of a US fleet submarine during World War II who directed the sinking of 15 Japanese vessels, one of the highest totals in the war, died July 27 at his home in Annapolis, Md. He was 93. The cause was prostate cancer, said his granddaughter, Amy Rindskopf. Mr. Rindskopf was 26 when, as a lieutenant commander, he took over the USS Drum after its captain fell ill and had to undergo surgery. Fleet submarines such as the Drum were the Navy's top-of-the-line long-distance subs, built just before the war and during it....

The US Navy has held a keel-laying ceremony for the Virginia-class submarine North Dakota at Electric Boat's shipyard at Quonset Point. Electric Boat is a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corp. in Falls Church, Va. The company employs more than 10,000 workers at Quonset and Groton, Conn., where the Navy has a submarine base and school. US Representatives James Langevin of Rhode Island and Joe Courtney of Connecticut have been pushing to prevent a proposed cut in funding for Virginia-class submarine production.

Estonia will open the Baltic states' largest maritime museum in a hangar once used by Charles Lindbergh. The main attractions at the (EURO)15 million ($20 million) Seaplane Harbor will be a British-built submarine dating from the 1930s and a life-size replica of the 184 seaplane, a British two-seater designed by Short Brothers. The unique concrete hangar housing the museum was built in 1916-17 when Estonia was part of czarist Russia. Its most famous guest was Lindbergh, the U.S. aviator, who flew there from Moscow in 1933 as part of his tour around Europe.

AMERICA'S EXPLORING spirit seems to have subsided. The glory days of Apollo are long gone. The ambitious quest to determine whether Mars once contained life - or does so today - has fizzled in budget cuts. A nation that once dreamt of frontiers now prefers the couch and a good episode of "Dancing With The Stars. " A potential antidote came recently from the filmmaker James Cameron. After years of development, Cameron climbed aboard a bright green, technically innovative submarine and dropped to the bottom of the world.

HARTFORD - Submarine manufacturer Electric Boat in Connecticut has won Navy contracts worth $25 million for maintenance on the USS Annapolis in Groton, Conn., and to support repairs on nuclear submarines and carriers at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Washington state. Connecticut senators Joe Lieberman and Richard Blumenthal and Representative Joe Courtney said Tuesday the Annapolis maintenance and upgrade project will be conducted this fall at the Groton site of Electric Boat, a division of General Dynamics Corp.

A submarine that will take "Titanic" director James Cameron to the Earth's deepest point has made a successful unmanned test dive. Cameron tells National Geographic News that his specially designed submarine called Deepsea Challenger completed the nearly 7-mile test dive Wednesday. The team returned to calmer waters and was headed back to the site Saturday. If all goes well, he'll spend about six hours exploring and filming the bottom of the Mariana Trench, about 200 miles southwest of the Pacific island of Guam.

The animated Beatles movie "Yellow Submarine" has been carefully restored frame-by-frame for DVD release this year. Specialists worked for four months to individually clean each frame of the 1968 surreal tale by hand, the Beatles' holding company Apple Corps Ltd. said Tuesday. The specialists chose not to use automated software because of the delicate nature of the hand-drawn artwork, the company added. The colorful movie, a fantasy that features cartoon versions of the Beatles and images from some of their psychedelic songs, is currently out of print.

Retired sailors who served aboard the USS Albacore have joined in a weekend event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the submarine's opening to the public in Portsmouth, N.H. The Albacore was launched in 1953 as a test vessel. The diesel-electric submarine featured a teardrop design that allowed it to maneuver quickly underwater; many of its features were later incorporated in other submarines including the Nautilus, the U.S. Navy's first nuclear-powered sub. Butch Jordan, who served on the Albacore from 1966 to 1968, survived being caught in a hurricane in 1967.

NEW DELHI - India yesterday launched the first nuclear-powered submarine built on its soil, asserting itself as a world power by joining five other countries that can design and construct such vessels. The 367-foot-long submarine, named “Arihant’’ or “Destroyer of Enemies,’’ was sent for sea trials at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. It will be capable of launching nuclear weapons, said Rahul Bedi, an analyst with Jane’s Defence Weekly. That would complete India’s strategic triad for nuclear weapons - giving it the ability to deliver them from the...

A Connecticut-based nuclear submarine is going to spend the next 20 months at Maine's Portsmouth Naval Shipyard while the vessel undergoes maintenance and upgrades. The fast attack submarine USS Miami arrived in the Maine-New Hampshire area on Thursday after operating five months in Europe. The Miami is based on Groton, Conn. Foster's Daily Democrat says the Miami has been traveling between ports in Europe and across the Mediterranean conducting maritime security operations.

An attack submarine based in Groton is getting a new commander. Navy Cmdr. George Arnold is turning over command of the USS Dallas at a ceremony Thursday on Submarine Base New London. Arnold has been commanding officer of the Los Angeles-class submarine since August 2009. He will be replaced by Cmdr. Jack Houdeshell. The Dallas was commissioned in 1981 and recently returned from a six-month deployment.