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At random: The USS Blenny SS 324, on her last patrol of WW II sank 63 vessels. One by torpedo and 62 by deck gunfire, demolition charges set by boarding parties or by burning. On several occasions shotguns were fired through the boats bottoms. These were all vessels under the 500 ton JANAC limit for tonnage sunk and not counted in the "official" totals or ships sunk. This is also a record for the most vessels ever sunk by a submarine on one patrol.

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fortyrod

Posted 2018-05-15 11:40 AM (#89312)

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Subject: 5-15- history

Pacific 05/15/69: The USS Guitarro (SSN-665) undergoing final fitting-out at the San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California, sinks in 35 feet of water next to the pier. No fissionable material is on board.The report of the U.S. Congress House Armed Services Subcommittee convened to investigate the accident charges culpable negligence on the part of shipyard workers responsible for the submarine: two civilian work crews pumped water into fore and aft sections of the boat; neither crew knowing what the other was doing.

fortyrod

Posted 2018-05-16 3:30 AM (#89324 - in reply to #89312)

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Subject: RE: 5-15- history

http://ussnautilus.org/blog/the-sinking-of-uss-guitarro-ssn-665/

mike652

Posted 2018-05-16 4:53 AM (#89325 - in reply to #89312)

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Subject: RE: 5-15- history

In '70 I was going through MK 113 FCS school. We had two civilians from Mare in the class. One was working in the torpedo room when it sank. He said he was able to gather up his tools and made it off the boat.

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