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Hmmm...wasn’t the Archerfish the one that sank the IJN Shinano?

I read an interesting story about the USS Archerfish being one of the first US Navy ships to go into the huge drydocks at Yokosuka, and the japanese shipworkers were all eyeing her with a palpable air of hostility...many of them had likely built the IJN Shinano in that very same drydock, and knew quite well it had been the Archerfish that sunk her.

The captain of the Archerfish decided to take the bull by the horns, and made it known that anyone who wanted a tour of the sub was welcome. That proved irresistible to the workers, and the ice was broken.

Those drydocks are huge.

101 posted on 02/02/2017 9:33:50 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")

Hmmm...wasn’t the Archerfish the one that sank the IJN Shinano?
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Yes, USS Archerfish (SS-311)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Archerfish_(SS-311)

Also a USS Archerfish (SSN-678) 1971-1998

103 posted on 02/02/2017 10:02:07 AM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)" "If you see a civilian in cammies -- bump into him")

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