Posted on 03/31/2014 3:40:25 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
When the periscope of the USS Montpelier rose from the water during training off the coast of Florida on Oct. 13, 2012, the submarine crew saw a Navy cruiser approaching a mere 100 to 200 yards away.
The cruiser USS San Jacinto tried to reverse, but it was too late.
The Montpelier-San Jacinto collision was one of 906 submarine accidents from late 2004 through 2013, according to data obtained from the Naval Safety Center by The Day through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The submarine's commanding officer was relieved of duty, and the costly mistake also led to changes in the way the submarine force trains, plans for, and executes complex maneuvers.
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Both the senator and the congressman, however, surmised that the submarine force's decision, around the same time as the increase in incidents, to extend some deployments beyond six months could be a factor in the 2011 spike. That decision was made to compensate for fewer submarines in the fleet.
If submariners are at sea longer, without time to refresh, Courtney said, "it would just seem, intuitively, that would increase the potential, if for no other reason than fatigue, the potential for problems." But, Courtney said, he did not have a way to quantify that.
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Everything was hush hush. Don’t know what they called it.
I thought it happened off the Hawaii coast. My husband always said there were Russian schooners and subs all around the islands. I’ll have to ask my husband if he knew that.
Yeah it was. Portions of the movie Operation Petticoat with Cary Grant and Tony Curtis were filmed with the Queenfish.
This happened in the 70s so probably not operation petticoat.
I am pretty sure the Queenfish ended up in Long Beach at the Naval Shipyard. You could still see some pink paint showing under the chipped and worn mixed paints used to cover it up. It appeared that she was being used to offload waste fuel/oil into and was just docked out of the way by the warehouses by the early 80’s when I saw her.
Unfortunately, the AF turned into risk-adverse office weenies and anyone making a mistake is fired.
The wiki says she was sunk as a target in 1963. The second Queenfish (Sturgeon class) was scrapped in the 90’s in Bremerton.
The wiki says that the pink scenes were the USS Balao. The USS Archerfish for the scenes in standard gray and black, and the Queenfish was only in the opening and closing scenes.
“For the ultra big kahuna of grounding, check out Honda Point.”
Seven destroyers on the rocks during peacetime. The all time clusterfark of US naval navigation.
“Don’t forget the grounding of the Enterprise in San Francisco Bay in the 1980s.”
I remember that. I was fresh out of boot camp/A school, standing on the pier waiting for the Enterprise (my first ship) when she got stuck in plain sight of the pier. I spent 3.5 years on her and learned everything I needed to know about painting and floor care.
But more importantly, do people appreciate your abilities as a human night-light?
Archerfish has the credit for the largest warship kill by a submarine in history: the Japanese carrier Shinano, converted from the third Yamato hull.
Well, shortly after transferring off all of my warts went away.
Isn’t that the dang truth!
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