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Russians find wreckage of U.S. submarine (USS Wahoo)
Yahoo News ^ | August 17, 2006

Posted on 08/17/2006 2:06:15 PM PDT by knighthawk

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To: snippy_about_it

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


81 posted on 08/18/2006 3:30:17 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

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


82 posted on 08/18/2006 3:35:11 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: grapeape

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

83 posted on 08/18/2006 3:36:46 PM PDT by grjr21
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To: wildcatf4f3

Ping.


84 posted on 08/18/2006 3:44:37 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: SmithL; Doohickey

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


85 posted on 08/18/2006 7:17:30 PM PDT by WSGilcrest (Mikey likes it!)
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To: knighthawk
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.....
86 posted on 08/19/2006 1:00:09 PM PDT by rottndog (WOOF!!!)
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To: SmithL

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


87 posted on 08/19/2006 6:19:14 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: curmudgeonII
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
88 posted on 08/20/2006 11:53:38 AM PDT by G8 Diplomat
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To: Central Scrutiniser
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!
89 posted on 08/20/2006 11:56:53 AM PDT by G8 Diplomat
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To: RinaseaofDs
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).
90 posted on 08/20/2006 12:05:50 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat
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To: G8 Diplomat

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


91 posted on 08/21/2006 6:20:59 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: RinaseaofDs

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!


92 posted on 08/21/2006 7:14:42 AM PDT by G8 Diplomat
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To: G8 Diplomat
Speaking of submarine movie music - my favorite had to be the German crew singing "Tipperary" in Das Boot. What a classic scene.
93 posted on 08/21/2006 2:01:37 PM PDT by Gator101
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To: Gator101

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


94 posted on 08/21/2006 2:09:38 PM PDT by Gator101
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To: FreePaul
The Glomar has been converted for oil service.
95 posted on 08/24/2007 3:53:32 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Republican DOES NOT equal Conservative!)
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To: tryon1ja

She is still there.


96 posted on 08/24/2007 3:55:40 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Republican DOES NOT equal Conservative!)
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