Russians find wreckage of U.S. submarine (USS Wahoo)

Yahoo News ^ | August 17, 2006

[knighthawk]

MOSCOW - Russian divers have spotted the wreckage of a legendary U.S. submarine that was lost in the Pacific in 1943, a Russian news agency reported Thursday.

The ITAR-Tass news agency said that a diving team from the Far Eastern State Technological University in Vladivostok found the USS Wahoo in the La Perouse Strait and took pictures of it during a recent expedition. It didn't give further details.

Under the command of Dudley "Mush" Morton, the Wahoo became one of the most famous U.S. submarines of World War II. With 19 Japanese ships sunk, Morton was ranked as one of the war's top three sub skippers.

The Wahoo was sunk by the Japanese navy as it returned from its seventh patrol on Oct. 11, 1943. All 79 crewmen died.

[colorado tanker]

Looks like they found it. As usual, the Foxhole was all over it!

[snippy_about_it]

I'll say it again, Foxhole folks are the smartest bunch around. :-)

[grjr21]

USS WAHOO

Length: 311 feet
Speed: Surfaced: 20.25 knots; submerged: 8.75 knots
Armament: One 3-inch cannon, two .30-caliber machine guns, two .50-caliber machine guns, 10 21-inch torpedo tubes
Crew: 79
Class: Gato

Source: U.S. Navy

[snippy_about_it]

Ping.

[WSGilcrest]

http://www.warfish.com/scrapnew.html

[rottndog]

Back when I was on a boat, they had found the Wahoo's bell and it had been donated to the sub memorial at Pearl Harbor. My boat had just finished overhaul at MINSY, and we were given the honor of escorting the bell back to PH. It was in pretty bad shape, but by the time we tied up in Pearl it probably had had several hundred hours of sweat and polish poured over it, and it was in pristine condition.

Least we could do out of respect for such a legendary boat and her crew.

RIP Wahoo.

Still on patrol.....

[AndyJackson]

Thanks for the ping. This is very very interesting information.

[G8 Diplomat]

Named after Jean Francois La Perouse who was the first European to discover it [and a lot of other neat things].
His full name was Jean Francois Gallaup Compte de La Perouse...wow that's a mouthful

[G8 Diplomat]

La Perouse got around, there is a series of NW Hawaiian islands named after him, and a beach on Maui
Actually a bay on Maui. I've been there!

[G8 Diplomat]

Song always makes me cry. It was sung beautifully in Hunt for Red October
Was that the one the Russians were singing when the torpedo was coming at them in Red Route 1 and Ramius was waiting to turn the boat until just the last minute? (Of course, it was sung in Russian though, not English).

[RinaseaofDs]

Actually, I was in error. It was Crimson Tide, and it was as they were submerging the ship for the first time.

[G8 Diplomat]

Ah OK. I wondered about that because if it wasn't that song I thought it was, the only other songs in The Hunt for Red October are the Hymn to Red October (opening credits) and the anthem of the Soviet Union, and those certainly couldn't have been right!

[Gator101]

Speaking of submarine movie music - my favorite had to be the German crew singing "Tipperary" in Das Boot. What a classic scene.

[Gator101]

Correction. They sung "It's a Long way to Tipperary" which is a different song. Ya' learn something new everyday...

[mad_as_he$$]

The Glomar has been converted for oil service.

[mad_as_he$$]

She is still there.