Ron Harris (footballer) Ron Harris (footballer) Ronald Edward Harris (born 13 November 1944 in Hackney, London, England), known by the nickname "Chopper", is a former English footballer who played for Chelsea in the 1960s and 1970s. Harris is widely regarded as one of the toughest defenders of his era – along with players such as Tommy Smith and Norman Hunter – hence the nickname. His brother Allan Harris was also a professional footballer and they were teammates at Chelsea in the mid-1960s. Harris was a member of the Chelsea side which won the FA Youth Cup in 1961 and made his senior club
USS Chopper (SS-342) re-classified, given hull classification symbol AGSS-342, and served as a United States Naval Reserve (USNR) dockside trainer in New Orleans, Louisiana until 1971, when the USNR Submarine Reserve program was discontinued. She was re-classified, given hull classification symbol IXSS-342, and was used for salvage and rescue training. In 1976, "Chopper" was modified to serve as a tethered, submerged torpedo target for the submarine . On 21 July, while "Spadefish" was on her final approach, "Chopper" began to take on water, broke her tethers, and sank. In his book "The Hunt for Red October", author Tom Clancy mentions the misfortune of