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Originally Posted by Dread Knot

Probably the most famous example in the war, Atlantic or Pacific, was the October 30th 1944 battle between the USS Salmon and two circling Japanese Kaikoban escort vessels armed with 4.7 inch guns. Forced to surface after a depth charging, and fired on from opposite directions, Salmon managed to charge and overwhelm one of them with gunfire at close range and then make a break for it.

I guess I hadn't read about that one. Did the one kaikoban sink?



The ones I was thinking about didn't end well.

Argonaut sunk by IJN warships with no survivors.

Sculpin with J.Cromwell scuttled after being shelled.



I also remember one USN sub making a planned battle surface where they engaged some kind of gunboat a long range. They happened to hit one of the exposed depth charges, and the thing went up like a powder keg.



AFAIK, the KM had no such victories against DD's or comparable vessels.