Edited sentence: Actually, the Memphis and the Toledo were in the area conducting surveillance operations on the Northern Fleet.Memphis was, in fact, more than  away from the Kursk at the time of the incident.Neither the Memphis nor the Toledo sustained damages and neither submarine entered port for repairs.The Truth:.The explosion was so strong that some sailors asleep on Toledo were thrown from their racks and navigational instruments were thrown from the plots.The fact that either of them may have been in the vicinity of the Kursk incident required them to enter port for a debriefing.Toledo was supposedly trailing the Kursk at a distance of about 10 to  at the time of the explosion.USS Memphis had finished its time on-station and was exiting the area, having been relieved by the Toledo