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Halibut was damaged so severely in late 1944 after an effective depth charging that she never made war patrol again, damaged too severely to justify repair.
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Read the book on that. "Take her deep" was the name of it i believe, written by the Halibut's captain if i remember right. Summation was they were the first recorded victim's of Japanese use of MAD. Many in the CT and CR heard an odd noise, which was soon followed by a very accurate depth charging. Such that it was, that the pressure hull in the conning tower was dented inward, (how much so i don't remember but it was substantial), and the conning tower had to be abandoned for fear the bulkhead would collapse. There's a bit more to this story, but the end result was the Halibut was unsafe to submerge after this incident and had to be retired.