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The USS Oklahoma City prepares to moor at the US Naval base in Guam. It was the only one of three American nuclear submarines not effected by the March 11 Tsunami. (US Navy/Corwin Colbert photo)

Tsunami knocked US nuclear submarines from their moorings

By Sat, Mar 12, 2011 10:48PM UTC View Comments The USS Oklahoma City prepares to moor at the US Naval base in Guam. It was the only one of three American nuclear submarines not effected by the March 11 Tsunami. (US Navy/Corwin Colbert photo)

Two American nuclear submarines in Guam’s Apra Harbor  were knocked from their moorings by the strength of the tsunami from the March 11 earthquake in Japan: At approximately 8 p.m. the nuclear submarines USS Houston and USS Corpus Christi* mooring lines broke free from the pier at Alpha Wharf because of the tsunami. It took tugboats...

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