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At random: Leonardo da Vinci, the Florentine Renaissance inventor and artist, developed plans for an underwater warship but kept them secret. He was afraid that it would make war even more frightful than it already was.

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fortyrod

Posted 2018-08-29 4:14 AM (#90057)

Great Sage of the Sea

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Subject: 8-29/30/31-history

8-29-1915 Navy salvage divers raise F-4, first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.

http://ussnautilus.org/blog/the-loss-of-uss-f-4-ss-23/

Atlantic 08/31/67: The USS Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) armed with 16 Polaris missiles collides with the target ship USS Betelgeuse (T-AK-260)when practicing a torpedo attack, 70 miles southeast of Charleston, South Carolina. No one is hurt, but the Bolivar suffers about $1 million damage to its periscope and communications antennae. The Betelgeuse suffers a hole in its hull. The Bolivar surfaces and the crew cuts away a 4-foot high, 15-foot-long section of the conning tower so the submarine could proceed to port.

The End.

Ric

Posted 2018-08-29 11:32 AM (#90063 - in reply to #90057)

Plankowner

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Subject: RE: 8-29/30/31-history

More on the F-4 and F-Boats in general here: http://pigboats.com/subs/f-boats.html
Some info on the men who sailed the F-4 Here: http://pigboats.com/features2.html (scroll down to the 6th image, "Joined Fates" and then to "James Morton Hoggett ET/3" second from bottom)
And... to: http://pigboats.com/features3.html and image #5; Harley L Colwell EMC and then down to #12 Alfred Louis Ede (he was the CO)
And lastly to the bottom of page 4: http://pigboats.com/features4.html for Earnest Clement Cauvin MM1

F-4 was really the "Bad Luck Boat" often called the "HooDoo boat" for all her bad luck.
It was a hard slog researching all this but rewarding also.

GaryKC

Posted 2018-08-29 12:29 PM (#90064 - in reply to #90057)

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Subject: RE: 8-29/30/31-history

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