USS Parche was a Cold War era attack submarine modified to conduct spy missions underwater. Parche featured a number of unique modifications, including ski legs that allowed it to rest on the seabed.

Here’s What You Need to Know: This sub won a staggering amount of honors, including ten Presidential Unit Citations, nine Navy Unit Citations, and thirteen Expeditionary Awards. In that role, the USS ...

Picture a nuclear submarine listening in on Cold War communications by tapping into deep, underwater cables near Soviet territory in 1979. Later the sub would go back and send divers down to retrieve ...

Only seven U.S. submariners were awarded the Medal of Honor for their exploits during World War II; Red Ramage was the first to get his in person from Franklin D. Roosevelt, as the previous winners ...

SHE’S 27 YEARS OLD, the grande dame of espionage. Highly decorated and purposely mysterious, the USS Parche, a 6,400-ton attack submarine filled with 112 Puget Sound sailors and officers, is sure to ...

Shared experiences aboard the Navy's most decorated vessel drew 60 former crew members to a reunion last week, but they still can't share their stories. Exploits aboard the spy submarine USS Parche ...