Possible WWII submarine wreck found in PNG

news.com.au ^ | 27th October 2011

[naturalman1975]

THE Royal Australian Navy is investigating an uncharted wreck in Papua New Guinea, believed to be a submarine, discovered in a joint operation with the New Zealand Navy.

[naturalman1975]

A number of US submarines went missing in this general area during the war - the USS Argonaut (SM-1) or the USS Amberjack (SS-219) would probably be the most likely candidates if this wreck is an American submarine.

[fso301]

The sub appears to be at the bottom of the harbor in Rabaul which probability means it is Japanese.

[Molon Labbie]

Good read is Scorpion Down by Ed Offley. He offers that the Scorpion was sunk by the Sovs in retaliation for our alledged sinking of the K-129 and both governments agreed to keep the incident quiet.

He touches only a little on the Navy’s finding that it may have been a hot torpedo.

I have also read that a suspect was the garbage disposal unit was unsecure and boat took on water.

To the OP, sorry for the thread hijack.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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USS Scorpion ... one theory is a torpeo malfunction ...


This is a good link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_(SSN-589)




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[theDentist]

Thanks, now I gotta get that book too. :)

[9422WMR]

Wrong sub, bub:
SS-278 WWII
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_(28SS-278)

[nothingnew]

pingpong

FMCDH(BITS)

[wally_bert]

Hopefully there isn’t a pinging noise coming from it like in the Twilight Zone episode The Thirty-Fathom Grave.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXMn158Ep8k

[ken5050]

IIRC, didn’t then recently discover the USS Wahoo?

[TheOldLady]

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[blam]

Thanks.

God Bless These Lost Souls.
(From An Old Diesel Sub Sailor)

[nothingnew]

Thanks.

God Bless These Lost Souls. (From An Old Diesel Sub Sailor)

You are quite welcome and thank you for your service.

FMCDH(BITS)

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[naturalman1975]

More likely, yes, but it is possible, it’s a US boat and I thought that was the possibility more likely to interest people here.