You can get into serious trouble on our new/modern submarines. For all of you guys still riding the boats....be careful out there.
COB, USS Philadelphia, SSN690 1987,1988
It was very nice of the French to build nice facilities for us to use at Cam Ranh Bay. Kind of eerie to read about these things taking place in 1939, knowing what would happen there in the ensuing 30+ years.
As for the Phenix, I don’t recall ever reading about this event before. From what I do know about submarines, a boat built in 1927 would not have been considered “modern” in 1939. There was a lot of development in submarine technology during that period, particularly in terms of increasing battery life, developing diesel engines better suited for submarine use, improving structural integrity for deeper diving, and better buoyancy. An American boat of 1927 vintage would have been considered at least obsolescent in 1939 with the advent of our Gato class fleet boats.
I’d put our Gatos against the German Mark VII or IX any day. It was the torpedoes that were faulty.
Don't think so.
1939 – Phenix
French submarine, vanished at sea on June 15, 1939, off Cam Ranh Bay in French Indochina with 71 men on board. Phenix submerged during an exercise with a French cruiser but did not return to the surface. After two days, the submarine was presumed lost. Oil slicks seen in the area of the sinking were attributed to the sunken submarine.
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I remember Cam Ranh Bay very well,first day in country
hearing mortars popping from across the bay and a shell
hitting a latrine about 50` from where I was
Never heard that story about that French sub trajedy.
Cam Rahn was where the Japanese launched the Pearl attack
from I believe