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seafarer · 11-07-07, 01:34 PM

That would be the destroyer USS Ward, and the midget sub sank from flooding from a 4" shell hole in her conning tower. The sub was found by H.U.R.L. in 2002 using the DSV's Pisces IV and V.

You can look up sinkings by boat here. As Torplexed said, it looks like USS Swordfish gets credit for the first ship sinking by a US submarine (read her 1st war patrol report here). It's interesting though that the first official (ie. JANAC seal of approval) sinking was likely not, in fact, the first ship sunk by the Swordfish.

11-07-07, 01:34 PM	#7
seafarer Commodore Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 622 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	That would be the destroyer USS Ward, and the midget sub sank from flooding from a 4" shell hole in her conning tower. The sub was found by H.U.R.L. in 2002 using the DSV's Pisces IV and V. You can look up sinkings by boat here. As Torplexed said, it looks like USS Swordfish gets credit for the first ship sinking by a US submarine (read her 1st war patrol report here). It's interesting though that the first official (ie. JANAC seal of approval) sinking was likely not, in fact, the first ship sunk by the Swordfish. __________________ My Father's ship, HMCS Waskesiu (K330), sank U257 on 02/24/1944 running SHIII-1.4 with GWX2.1 and SHIV-1.5 with TMO/RSRDC/PE3.3 under MS Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP1 ACER AMD Athlon 64x2 4800+, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 400GB SATA HD Antec TruePower Trio 650watt PSU BFG GeForce 8800GT/OC 512MB VRAM, Samsung 216BW widescreen (1680x1050) LCD Last edited by seafarer; 11-07-07 at 02:37 PM.