Russian Sub Museum that sank raised
Rhode Island ? Military salvage teams used hydraulic pumps and pontoons Friday to raise a Russian submarine once featured in a Hollywood film that sank in the Providence River last year during a storm.
The 282-foot-long submarine, known as Juliett 484, had been used as the floating Russian Sub Museum until April 2007, when it was swamped after a powerful nor’easter.
The sub, alternatively designated as K-77, was launched in 1965 as part of the Soviet Northern Fleet.
The sub was used in the 1990s as a restaurant and vodka bar in Helsinki, Finland, and as a set for the 2002 Harrison Ford movie “K-19: The Widowmaker” before being acquired by the USS Saratoga Museum Foundation, a private, nonprofit group.






