And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
USS Stickleback (SS-415) collided with the destroyer USS Silverstein, 29 may 1958
I had a physics teacher who was a sub cmdr post WWII. Out on maneuvers one time he called for "up scope" just in time to run the periscope into the side of the ship in front of him. The bent periscope could not be retracted, and he had to sail back into Pearl Harbor with the wreckage to be laughed at by everyone who saw it. I don't know if he lost his command, he didn't say, only that it was the most humiliating thing he had to endure.
not as bad as the poor bastards on the USS San Francisco that hit an underwater mountain. one man dead. don't know if the cartographers paid as much a price because the mountain wasn't on the mapping systems. one would hope that any undersea mount that came above the deepest crush depth would be at least noted on the maps.
It looks like the other way around. We did have some "close calls" though.
ReplyDeleteLooks like 2 skippers ended heir careers that day.
ReplyDeleteA perfect 2-vessile example of the age old naval combat maneuver "Crossing the T" taken to the extreme.
ReplyDelete"Well, there goes my learner's permit ..."
ReplyDeleteAnd it wasn't two female captains
ReplyDelete1958 huh.
DeleteSo this kinda driving isn't something our navy just took up.
I had a physics teacher who was a sub cmdr post WWII. Out on maneuvers one time he called for "up scope" just in time to run the periscope into the side of the ship in front of him. The bent periscope could not be retracted, and he had to sail back into Pearl Harbor with the wreckage to be laughed at by everyone who saw it. I don't know if he lost his command, he didn't say, only that it was the most humiliating thing he had to endure.
ReplyDeletenot as bad as the poor bastards on the USS San Francisco that hit an underwater mountain. one man dead. don't know if the cartographers paid as much a price because the mountain wasn't on the mapping systems. one would hope that any undersea mount that came above the deepest crush depth would be at least noted on the maps.
DeleteOuch!
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