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The wreck of the USS Harder (SS 257), a renowned World War II submarine, has been discovered⁴⁵. The discovery was made with the help of the "Lost 52 Project," which aims to locate the 52 submarines lost during World War II¹.
A few years ago, I heard the the wreck of the T2 tanker Marine Sulphur Queen (which supposedly disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle) had been located off Florida. In 2005, a team of divers inspected the ship and found that it appeared to be a tanker lying on her port side. There were three other ships (all sunk during WW2) that the wreck might ...
The wreck is considered a war grave and protected by US law, according to an NHHC spokesperson. According to the Navy, the Albacore was commissioned on June 1, 1942. During its relatively short service it earned nine battle stars and four Presidential Unit Citations, awarded for extraordinary heroism, quickly becoming one of the most successful ...
Join Date: Dec 2001. Location: Seattle, WA. Posts: 5,823. Downloads: 43. Uploads: 0. A lot of the Oklahoma dead were memorialized by having new construction named after them. The most famous being the destroyer escort sub-killer USS England named after Oklahoma ensign John C. England.
The submarine was found sitting “upright on her keel relatively intact except for the depth-charge damage aft of the conning tower.” “Submarines by their very design can be a challenge to identify, but the excellent state of preservation of the site and the quality of the data collected by Lost 52 allowed for NHHC to confirm the identity ...
Wreck of WWII Submarine USS Albacore Discovered off Japan February 21, 2023 World Naval News The Navy has confirmed the discovery of the missing World War II submarine USS Albacore (SS-218) off Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island by a team of Japanese researchers.
Story of the USS Grunion SS-216... Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific
The vessel reached the USS Johnston, which lies 6.5km (4 miles) beneath the waves in the Philippine Sea in the Pacific Ocean. Explorers spent several hours surveying and filming the wreck over a series of dives. The 115m-long US Navy destroyer sank during the Battle off Samar in 1944 after a fierce battle with a large fleet of Japanese warships.
On September 1, 1985 — almost 39 years ago — the wreckage was found during a joint exploration by an American oceanographer, Robert Ballard, who was also a Navy officer, and a French oceanographer, Jean-Louis Michel, as The New York Times reported at the time.
Major repairs to the submarine’s bow, sonar, and other underside structure components will be challenging as the Seawolf class is long out of production. On top of that, just three boats were ever built, with one being a heavily modified sub-type in its own right, the highly secretive USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23). In the past, similar damage has ...