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Master and Commander
Posts: 1605
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What a situation to be in.
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1269
Location: Hopewell Junction NY | Subject: RE: Picture of the Skate..er STICKELBACK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Stickleback
They sent divers over to investigate / assess the damage and one reported seeing the wardroom curtain draped outside the pressure hull.
Edited by PaulR 2023-10-04 10:54 AM
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Plankowner
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Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Picture of the Skate..er STICKELBACK
When I was working down on the rusty Ruskie in Seattle a guy came in to see it. Turned out he was on Stickleback when this happened. He told me he had just gotten a new pair of shoes and when the flooding began he took them off so they wouldn't get wet. He stuffed them up into the overhead in Control. Those shoes are still there to this day. I think they got wet anyway.
The Stickleback made one war patrol in WW II lasting just two days on station in the Sea of Japan when the war ended. She remained in the area and on August 21, 1945 sighted two bamboo rafts holding 19 survivors of a freighter, the Teihoku Maru, 5794 tons, which had been sunk 10 days before by USS Jallao SS-368. They were taken on board, the rafts pulled on to the deck aft, for 18 hours, given food, water, medical treatment, and set afloat again a short distance from one of the Japanese islands. Stickleback was now performing humanitarian aid assisting fellow sailors in need since the war had ended. |
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Great Sage of the Sea
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| Subject: RE: Picture of the Skate..er STICKELBACK
The bow looks very long and skinny, or is it a shadow |
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Plankowner
Posts: 9165
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Picture of the Skate..er STICKELBACK
She is partly flooded at this point. Silverstein had the sense to not pull back but to keep her bow in the hole she made in the subs hull thus slowing the flooding. The sub is heavy with water and the waterline is up to the superstructure above the pressure hull bulge. She was going down by the bow. More photos here: http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08415.htm
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Picture of the Skate
