Name three famous dates in Submarine History!

[Onkel Neal]

https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=1161&pictureid=10762


Oct 14 1939 U-47 sinks HMS Royal Oak
Feb 17 1864 CSS Hunley sinks USS Housatonic
Jan 17 1955 Nautilus Underway on Nuclear Power

What have you got?! :Kaleun_Wink:

[ET2SN]

March of 1989- The USS Barbel sails into Subic Bay for a two week upkeep availability. :yeah:

I don't remember much of it but all of my friends said I had a good time. :D


November of 1989- The COB of the USS Barbel assigns (then) ET3SN as a tour guide and liason for the HMAS Ottoway during their port visit to Pearl Harbor and Honolulu. Two years later, the COB of the USS Bremerton assigns ET2SN as the tour guide and liason to the.. HMAS Ottoway during another visit to Pearl Harbor. My liver still hasn't recovered but everyone said I had fun. :doh:



June of 1992- The USS Bremerton sails into CFB Esquimalt (Victoria, BC) for a four day port visit.

For legal reasons, I don't remember most of it. :03:

[Randomizer]

I'll bite.

22 September 1914. U-9 sinks armoured cruisers Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy off the Broad Fourteens. After this ships would no longer attempt to rescue survivors if a submarine attack was suspected.

1 January 1915. U-24 sinks battleship HMS Formidable off the Devon coast becoming the first British battleship sunk by a U-Boat. Events following the sinking contributed to the 1940 novel Lassie Come Home.

27 May 1915. U-21 commanded by KL Hersing torpedoes his second battleship, HMS Majestic off Gallipoli becoming the first U-Boat commander to sink two battleships. Two days earlier U-21 had sank the battleship HMS Swiftsure

Correction thanks to Neal, U-21's first battleship victim was Swiftsure's sister Triumph. My error.

[JU_88]

14 April 1945, U-1206 was stricken from a toilet malfunction flooding the fore compartment. (she was later bombed from the air)


9 Febuary 1945, HMS Ventura Sinks U-864 in the first ever submarine combat with two submarged vessles .


1 June 1939 HMS Thetis disaster, The vessel sunk while attempting her first dive in the bay of Birkenhead during her sea trials, 99 lives were lost, cause was put down to malfunctioning torpedo tube.

[fumo30]

-12 September 1942 sinking of RMS Laconia, The sadly ended rescue operation.


-3 October 1939 Commander Lott of U-35 after sinking of Greek merchant Diamantis, carried her crew ashore in Ireland.


-16 October 1940 Italian Commander Salvatore Todaro of Alfredo Cappelllini took the crew of sunk Belgian merchant Kabalo to safety to the shores of Azores.

[Jimbuna]

1915, May 7 – German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania killing 1,198 and leaving 761 survivors. The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany, contributed to the U.S. entry into World War I.

1941, November 13 – U-81 strikes HMS Ark Royal with a single torpedo. She sinks the following day due to crippling damage.

1982, May 2 – British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks Argentine cruiser General Belgrano off the Falkland Islands. It was the first sinking of any vessel by a nuclear-powered submarine in wartime and also the first time that a nuclear-powered submarine fired weapons in an act of war.

[August]

September 6, 1776 Experimental submarine Turtle piloted by Continental Army Sergeant Erza Lee attacks the HMS Eagle, Flagship of Lord Howe in New York harbor marking the first recorded combat use of a submarine to attack a ship.
My other two choices have been mentioned already.

[Onkel Neal]

Excellent! :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

Three more:

12 Aug 2000; Kursk lost
10 April 1963; Thresher lost
22 May 1968; Scorpion lost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQJ6IMREvz8

[Onkel Neal]

I'll bite.



27 May 1915. U-21 commanded by KL Hersing torpedoes his second battleship, HMS Majestic off Gallipoli becoming the first U-Boat commander to sink two battleships. Two days earlier U-21 had sank the battleship HMS Swiftsure.

Says in wiki it was HMS Triumph

After a week in the friendly port Hersing sailed to his new operational area off Gallipoli, which he reached on 25 May. The same day he spotted the British battleship HMS Triumph. Hersing brought his U-boat to within 300 yards (270 m) of his target and fired a single torpedo, which hit the battleship and caused it to capsize and sink,


Wow, he was also the first captain to sink an enemy warship by torpedo

On September 5 Hersing spotted the light cruiser Pathfinder off the Scottish coast, sailing at a reduced speed of 5 knots due to a short supply of coal. Hersing decided to attack the ship and hit her with a single torpedo just below the bridge, close to the ship's powder magazine, which was destroyed by a great explosion. The ship sank in a short time and 261 sailors were killed. It was the first sinking of a modern warship by a submarine armed with torpedoes.

[August]

Wow, he was also the first captain to sink an enemy warship by torpedo


That must be a powered torpedo as the spar mounted weapon used by the Hunley was also called a torpedo.

[mapuc]

(an off topic input)
Talking about misreading a message

I thought it said ....famous dates in subsims history.

Markus

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[Onkel Neal]

That must be a powered torpedo as the spar mounted weapon used by the Hunley was also called a torpedo.

Right, you know what it means, they called mines "torpedoes" early on, so now we call self-propelled torpedoes simply "torpedoes".

[Mr Quatro]

Lets do this backwards from Jim's being my first choice backwards in history although the sinking of the USS Thresher
was very important to future ship building programs called "Fail Safe"

I will go with these three important developments in submarine warfare :yep:

Number 1

1982, May 2 – British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks Argentine cruiser General Belgrano off the Falkland Islands.
It was the first sinking of any vessel by a nuclear-powered submarine in wartime and also the first time that a nuclear-powered submarine fired weapons in an act of war.


Number 2

The Frigate Bird test, which took place on May 6th, 1962
The test, code-named “Frigate Bird,” involved the launch of a Polaris missile from a submarine carrying a live nuclear warhead.
The missile traveled a thousand miles before streaking down on an uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, exploding with the force of 37 Hiroshima bombs.

Frigate Bird was the only US test of an operational ballistic missile with a live warhead. This test involved firing a Polaris A1 missile from a ballistic missile submarine.
The missile was launched by the USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608) at 13:18 (local) from a position 1500 nm east-northeast of Christmas Island.


Number 3

The first Polaris boat, USS George Washington, fired a Polaris missile on 20 July 1960, and commenced its initial operational patrol on 16 November 1960

[Randomizer]

Says in wiki it was HMS Triumph
Knew that it was one of the Chilean pair and that's the problem when one posts by memory...

15 Feb 1960. USS Triton (SSRN-586, Captain Edward Beach USN commanding) sails for the first submerged circumnavigation of the world.

3 August 1914. Fearing attack by the light cruiser SMS Leipzig, British Columbia Premier Richard McBride purchases two submarines being built in Seattle for Chile. The boats are named HMCS CC-1 and CC-2 and are taken into the Canadian Naval Service on 6 August. The Dominion government reimburses BC for the costs and the boats are Canada's first submarines.

14 February 1905. During the war with Japan, Russian submarines Delfin and Som sortie from Vladivostok becoming the first modern submarines to make combat patrols. The boats had been shipped to the Pacific by rail, assembled and tested during 1904.

-C

We have the Belgrano sinking twice, there should be a penalty for repeated incidents!

[Rockstar]

1. In February 1989 the McKee performed the first at-sea weapons transfer to a submarine since World War II, to the USS Ohio (SSBN-726).

2. USS Balao starred as the "pink submarine" in the 1959 comedy film Operation Petticoat, co-starring with Cary Grant and Tony Curtis

3. Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel; inventor and builder of the first navigable submarine was born was born 1572 in Alkmaar, Netherlands.
"... and in his later time kept an Ale-house below the [London] bridge. He had an invention of going under water which he used so advantageously, that many persons were perswaded that he was some strange Monstar, and that means drew many to see him and drink of his ale.' :har:

[Aktungbby]

DEC 7 1941: USS TAUTOG, ONE OF FOUR SUBMARINES IN PEARL HARBOR, GOES INTO IMMEDIATE ACTION WITH HER ANTI AIRCRAFT GUNS AND DOWNS A TORPEDO BOMBER WITH HELP FROM USS NARWAL. SHE WILL GO ON TO BE 'THE TERRBLE T'; CREDITED WITH 26 SHIPS SUNK....:yeah: DEC 7 1941: USS NARWHAL DOWNS A SECOND JAPANESE TORPEDO BOMBER AND ALSO GOES ON TO SINK JAPANESE SHIPPING IN THE PACIFIC WAR. :yeah: USS DOLPHIN DOWNS ANOTHER THAT CRASHES NEAR USS CACHELOT!:yeah: DEC 7 1941: USS WARD, CREWED BY MINNESOTA RESERVES, OPENS THE PACIFIC WAR IN WWII! SINKING A JAPANESE MIDGET SUBMARINE WITH HER SECOND 4" GUN SHOT-FIRST ENEMY SUBMARINE SUNK IN THE PACIFIC WAR!:yeah: RIGHT OFF THE BAT, ADM. YAMAMOTO'S PREMISE OF A ''BUSHIDO-KATANA'' FIRST-STRIKE ALONG THE LINES OF MAHAN'S DECISIVE STRIKE THEORY IS IN ERROR; IT'S NOT GOING TO BE A BATTLESHIP WAR; IT'LL BE A CARRIER/SUBMARINE WAR OF ANNIHILATION THAT WOULD MAKE POOR GROSS ADM. DOENITZ JEALOUS. U.S. SUBMARINES WILL SINK ABOUT 1300 SHIPS; 200 WARSHIPS: INCL 8 CARRIERS; A BATTLESHIP; AND 11 CRUISERS...CONSIDER THAT ALL THE VESSELS BUT THREE OUT-OF-DATE BATTLESHIPS WERE RESTORED TO COMBAT BY THE US NAVY AFTER PEARL HARBOR, THE MATH SIMPLY DOES NOT SUPPORT YAMAMOTO'S INADEQUATELY CONCIEVED COPYCAT TARANTO-STYLE PLANNING. THE SUBMARINES AND THE HUGE FUEL RESERVES WERE THE ENEMY NOT THE BATTLESHIPS..... THE TRUE TARGET: SUBMARINE BASE AND FUEL FARM 10/13/1941 LEFT UNTOUCHED AND INTACT>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Aerial_view_of_the_Pearl_Harbor_submarine_base_and _adjacent_fuel_tank_farms_on_13_October_1941_%2880-G-182880%29.jpg/740px-Aerial_view_of_the_Pearl_Harbor_submarine_base_and _adjacent_fuel_tank_farms_on_13_October_1941_%2880-G-182880%29.jpg (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Aerial_view_of_the_Pearl_Harbor_submarine_base_and _adjacent_fuel_tank_farms_on_13_October_1941_%2880-G-182880%29.jpg) It is likely the Imperial Japanese Navy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy)'s staff carefully studied the Taranto raid during planning for the attack on Pearl Harbor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor) because of the issues with a shallow harbour. Japanese Lieutenant Commander Takeshi Naito, the assistant naval attaché to Berlin, flew to Taranto to investigate the attack firsthand. Naito subsequently had a lengthy conversation with Commander Mitsuo Fuchida (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsuo_Fuchida) about his observations in October 1941. Fuchida led the Japanese attack on 7 December 1941. More significant, perhaps, was a Japanese military mission to Italy in May 1941. A group of IJN officers visited Taranto and had lengthy discussions with their Italian Navy opposite numbers. However, the Japanese had been working on shallow-water solutions since early 1939, with various shallow ports as the notional targets, including Manila (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila), Singapore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore), Vladivostok (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladivostok), and Pearl Harbor. In the early 1930s, as their Type 91 aerial torpedo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_91_torpedo) entered service, the Japanese used a breakaway wooden nose to soften its impact with the water, as early as 1936, had perfected breakaway wooden fins for added aerial stability.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was a considerably larger operation than Taranto. All six Imperial Japanese (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan)fleet carriers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_carrier), each one equipped with an air wing having over twice the number of planes of any British carrier, took part. It resulted in far more devastation: seven American battleships were sunk or disabled, and several other warships were destroyed or damaged. The U.S. Navy thereafter designed its fleet operations in the Pacific Ocean (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean) around its carriers instead of its battleships (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_type_battleship) as capital ships (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_ship). Battleships were found to be less useful in the expanses of the Pacific than in the confines of the Mediterranean; the older ships were too slow to escort the carriers, and were chiefly used as fire support for amphibious operations.

[mapuc]

I have so far one historical submarine story and it's from Denmark.

The submarine - the seal(Ubåd Sælen) was the first Danish sub ever to take part in a war.

The Danish Government decide to contribute to the second Iraqi war.
With this sub, a surface ship, medical personal and some other things.

Some years after the war, there was rumours she had been used in a secret mission, where she had been sent up through the Tigris river.

Today it has been revealed what her task was-She had to monitor the Iranian fleet especially their submarines.

Markus

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

17 August 1942
USS Argonaut lands elements of the 2nd Raider Battalion on Makin Island.



9 July 1945
USS Cod rescues sailors from the Dutch submarine which ran aground on Ladd Reef in the South China Sea. This remains the only international sub to sub rescue in history.



3 July 1945 02:47
In a first for US Subs the USS Barb attacks Shikuka on Karafuto using 5in rockets to bombard the town.

[merc4ulfate]

Lets do this backwards from Jim's being my first choice backwards in history although the sinking of the USS Thresher
was very important to future ship building programs called "Fail Safe"

I will go with these three important developments in submarine warfare :yep:

Number 1

1982, May 2 – British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks Argentine cruiser General Belgrano off the Falkland Islands.
It was the first sinking of any vessel by a nuclear-powered submarine in wartime and also the first time that a nuclear-powered submarine fired weapons in an act of war.


"first time that a nuclear-powered submarine fired weapons in an act of war"

This is not true and that is all I can say about it.

[merc4ulfate]

1978 published report prove Cookie Cutter Sharks target Nuclear Submarines for dinner.

January 8 2005 Uss San Francisco attacks by ramming a defenseless under sea mountain ending in the death of one enlisted man aboard the submarine.

2019 Nuclear-powered submarine of type AS-12 spy submarine catches fire under water killing 14 crew members with toxic smoke.

[Jimbuna]

On the subject of HMS Conqueror, look up Operation Barmaid.

[Vivid1963]

13 September 1914, Lt Cdr max Horton (later CinC Western Approaches command, Liverpool 1941-45 - The Battle of the Atlantic) Torpedoes and sinks the German warship SMS Hela, the first warship sunk by a British Submarine.

13 December 1914, Lt Norman Holbrook in HM Submarine B11 having passed into the Dardanelles torpedoes and sinks the Turkish warship Mesudiye - he later receives the Victoria Cross (VC), becoming the first RN Submariner to do so.

18 September 1941 HMS Upholder (Lt. Cdr Malcolm David Wanklyn) sinks the Italian Troopships Neptunia and Oceania in a single attack on an Italian Convoy each of approx 19,500 tons - Wanklyn had in another patrol sunk the Liner Conte Rosso (18,000 tons approx) for which he received the VC.
Wanklyn was killed 14 April 1942, he was credited with 93,031 tons sunk, 33,644 tons damaged and had been awarded the VC and the Distinguished Service order (DSO) with Two Bars - 3 DSO`s in total. He was the most Successful RN submarine commander of all time in terms of tonnage

[Pri3n47]

1.ORP Orzeł escapes from Tallinn on the night of 17 and 18 September 1939.

2. 8 April 1940 - ORP Orzeł sunk Rio de Janeiro troop transport ship, which revealed that invasion of Norway is already in progress.

3. 2 May 1942 - ORP Jastrząb was sunk by friendly fire.

[Schnee]

Agree with 22 September 1914 with U-9 sinking Aboukir, Hogue, Cressy which kinda signalled to the world the effectiveness
of the submarine as a maritime weapon, also agree with Prien's sinking of HMS Royal Oak on 14 October 1939.

The only one I will add is 9 November 1915, when U-35 commanded by Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (the most successful commander
in history) sank the SS Californian avenging the Titantic!

[pedalboat]

Isaac Peral and his Peral submarine launched on 8th September 1888
Narciso Monturiol and his Ictíneo I submarine in Barcelona on 28th June 1859
Antonio Sanjurjo in Vigo tests his submarine on 12th August 1898

[Fifi]

- 2005/03/18 first launch of SH3

- 2007/03/22 first launch of SH4

- 2010/03/04 first launch of SH5

:D

[Jimbuna]

List of submarine actions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_submarine_actions

[Onkel Neal]

- 2005/03/18 first launch of SH3

- 2007/03/22 first launch of SH4

- 2010/03/04 first launch of SH5

:D

Nice! May I ask where you got the info for the dates?