The escort increased speed and headed for Bonefish, but the sub went deep and escaped the barrage of depth charges. When the Carr dove, the change in pitch allowed saltwater to flood across the ship, corroding the joint where battery cables penetrated the deck. This vessel's fifth patrol was in the same area as her fourth, and she sank two small freighters, a large tanker and five miscellaneous small craft, while she damaged a second tanker. between Hokkaido and Honshu. The maneuver succeeded in temporarily clearing smoke from the control room but not the remainder of the vessel. Following a post-deployment standdown and local operations, she entered the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard for a regular overhaul. The wreck lies upright with its bow missing and A turret pointing aft. Suez Maru, sunk by USS Bonefish on 29 November 1943: 548 British and Dutch POWs lost, no survivors. Sources: R, D, SFLM The submarine departed there on 16 September for her first war patrol. Remarks: Hulk reported sighted in 1978 On 11 December, she surfaced to engage small cargo vessel Toyohime Maru [7] with gunfire, scoring several hits before a mechanical problem put her gun out of action. . No reports from boat made after leaving Darwin around 17 Novemeber 1943. loss of 42 crew when it foundered off Key West, 24 24' 30N - 81 28' Remarks: In diveable water in PRC territory Remarks: The Wahoo has been found and verified by the US Navy. Towed back to Charleston by the aptly named USS Hoist, she was decommissioned five months later and scrapped. Even though the emergency lights were on, he couldnt see them. Project Team; Contribute; Support; . She was sunk in June 1945 after sinking a ship on its eighth cruise. Learn More , Library Hours: She cleared the area and arrived at Fremantle on 19 December. Following the normal post-deployment leave and upkeep period, she resumed operations along the west coast of North America. Equipped with a new mine-detecting device, the submarines were ordered to penetrate the Sea of Japan to sever the last of the Japanese overseas supply lines. Find USS Bonefish (SS-223) unit information, patches, operation history, veteran photos and more on TogetherWeServed.com. This required anyone entering the submarine to be in a Scott breathing apparatus rather than an Oxygen Breathing Apparatus which was not efficient enough. In February 1963, Bonefish moved to a new home port, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The ship, the USS Johnston, is at a depth of 21,180 feet (about 6,500. Three of 22 injured crewmen remain hospitalized. Passage 7 49.5N; 116 47.5E Palawan. near the Gulf of Siam 7 55N; 102 00E. The attack group was to depart the Sea of Japan via La Perouse Strait on the night of 24 June. The destroyers converged on Bonefish for counterattack, but she escaped into the depths. Readers interested in this incident would be well-served by reading the Navys report investigating the incident, as well as personal accounts shared by Bonefishs crew, including her executive officer. You may recall that BONEFISH, the last diesel submarine in the Atlantic, was in the vicinity of the Bahamas three years ago, when a fire in the battery area caused the captain to abandon ship and left us with the problem of recovering and bringing her back to Charleston. I had the privilege to be in charge of the rescue operation at sea, an experience that I wont soon forget. Matsuwa Island, in Kurlies. This coordinated attack group under Commander G. E. Pierce in TUNNY, which was one of three groups then penetrating the Japan Sea, was ordered to transit Tsushima Strait on 5 June 1945 and to conduct offensive patrol in the Sea of Japan off the west coast of Honshu. grounding on reef south of Rossel Island Louisande Archipelago. On 6 February 1944, during her third war patrol, the boat had a close call when, as she moved into position to launch torpedoes from her aft tubes, she suddenly lost depth control, submerging her periscope. Water <700' deep near island; ( 27 00 N; 128 40 E). It was a very harrowing experience we went through out there, he said upon arrival Tuesday in Charleston, S.C., his ships home port. On 14 May, Bonefish approached a convoy of three tankers and three escorting destroyers, steaming off Tawitawi in the Philippines and headed for Sibutu Passage. submarines is a hazardous business. In moments, jet black smoke poured across the ship, blinding the crew and making breathing poison. USS Grampus . Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}3718N 13755E / 37.300N 137.917E / 37.300; 137.917, Last edited on 15 February 2023, at 21:52, "Tonan Maru No. USS F-4 [ex-SKATE] (SS23) was lost on 21-Mar-1915 Remarks: Location not known, cause not known, date of loss not known. Remarks: R states South of Tokyo Bay. spread is 11-23 to 12-9-43, Ships and Tonnage Bonefish returned to Pearl Harbor from that routine deployment on 7 November and began 13 months of local operations. After a four-week standdown and a brief period of operations, Bonefish entered the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard on 26 July. The salvage crew entered the vessel shortly after midnight to test for toxic gases left by the fire in the diesel-electric subs forward battery compartment. USS Trout (SS-202) was lost on or after 29-Feb-1944 The submarine next trained her torpedo tubes on a convoy of 13 ships which she contacted on 9 February in Camranh Bay. A private dive team has found the last American warship sunk off the US east coast in WWII - solving a 75-year-old naval cold case. 5 50N) My understanding of the way they operate and train is reconfirmed by the fact that their efforts to save their two ships were unsuccessful while ours was successful. Return expeditions have not relocated hull. in knowing those 5,000 valves and switches. Declared lost The Navy said the first explosion hit the Bonefish on Sunday afternoon as it was running at periscope depth, engaged in training exercises with surface vessels 160 miles off Florida. USS Escolar (SS-294) was lost on or after A spark ignites the hydrogen - and remember the ship is full of electric motors - and you have an explosion followed by a fire and that fire produces the chlorine gas, Friedman said. On 6 July, she surfaced to destroy a wooden-hulled schooner by gunfire. On 18 October, the submarine rescued two naval aviators. A third, Yeoman Third Class Marshal Lindgren became disoriented and remained behind in the submarine. Sources: R, D, SFLM Photos HERE Sources: R, D, Ros, SFLM, WDR U.S. She entered the Flores Sea on 28 November and, the next day, intercepted two enemy ships. The wreck was the U.S. Navy's largest-ever single loss of life at sea: an event that left hundreds of sailors dead, hundreds more ambushed by sharks and the American public reeling at the. All the crew escaped through a hole cut in hull in the tiller MAY -- with the loss of 78 crew when it was sunk somewhere between Midway and Upon completing this mission, she headed for Australia and arrived at Fremantle on 30 May. I-52 sunk June 24, 1944 roughly 1,200 miles west of the Cape Verde islands I-55 (I-155) scuttled May 8, 1946 I-55 missing after July 13, 1944 I-58 scuttled April 1, 1945 off Goto Island I-60 sunk January 17, 1942 I-70 sunk December 10, 1944 north of Hawaii I-121-class submarine I-121 scuttled April 30, 1946 wreckage found July 2018 152 37E Named Pierces Pole Cats after TUNNY commanding officer Commander George E. Pierce, the wolfpacks assignment was to invade the Sea of Japan, along with two other packs of American subs (Hydemans Hepcats and Bobs Bobcats), and destroy what remained of Japans overseas supply lines. USS Tang (SS-306) was lost on 25-Oct-1944 with the On 24 April 1988 Bonefish was submerged, during an exercise with guided-missile frigate USS Carr, about 160 mi (260 km) off the Atlantic coast of Florida, when seawater began leaking onto cables and electric buses in a battery-supply cableway. Hokkaido. This touching experience cemented forever my bond to the finest submarine force in the world. Bonefish made a submerged approach and launched four torpedoes. Sources: R, D, Ros, SFLM, WDR On 17 May 1978, Bonefish put to sea for the western Pacific. Submarine Losses World War II, NAVPERS 15,784, 1949 ISSUE. The heat was so intense that it melted the soles of the shoes of the crewmembers in the space above. USS Amberjack (SS-219) was lost on 16-Feb-1943 with The vessel sank, but its five escorts mounted a vicious counterattack that soon covered the oceans surface with oil and debris. after serious damage by aircraft near Penang, ~ 10 Miles West of Lem Voalan Strait 61 During the summer of 1963, she made a two-month cruise to the western Pacific, returning to Pearl Harbor in August. the loss of 86 crew when it was sunk in Toyama Wan; Near Suzu Misaki; 37 She was launched on 22 November 1958, sponsored by Mrs. Lawrence L. Edge, widow of Commander Lawrence Edge, who was lost with his ship, the first Bonefish, in 1945. Remarks: Ship not found and demise is speculated as either being caused by an unknown difference. spread as 10-17-44 to 11-3-44 A petty officer rang the alarm Fire on third street!. That tour of duty ended with her return to Oahu in July. Remarks: R states after 2 December 43. It is truly these fine young people who man our Submarine Force and our Navy and the dedicated feeling we have toward one another that makes it all worth while. At the end of May, BONEFISH set out on her eighth war patrol alongside USS TUNNY (SS-282) and USS SKATE (SS-305). The wreck of the USS Bugara (OET/Nautilus Live). loss of 76 crew when it was sunk in Sulu Sea west of Mindinao, 9 47N; is aware of her location and the condition of the hull. it was sold for scrapping. Sources: R, D, Ros, SFLM The day of the wooden ship was over, wit. } loss of 56 crew when it was sunk on 5th patrol off Paramushiru, Kuriles NORFOLK, Va. (AP) _ Navy salvage workers who boarded the USS Bonefish as the abandoned submarine drifted in the Atlantic today found the bodies of the three men missing after explosions and fire rocked the ship, Navy officials said. Provision was made in the operation order governing this patrol group for submarines in case of necessity to proceed to Russian waters to claim a 24 hour haven, or to submit to internment in extreme need, or for them to make their exit from the Japan Sea prior to or after 24 June. On 6 December 1975, the submarine departed Oahu bound for the Orient. She operated out of that port until 16 September, when she embarked upon her first deployment to the western Pacific. She remained in port for three weeks to allow crewmen to settle into the new home port. The Navy would neither confirm nor deny that the submarine was charging its batteries at the time. The boat sustained minor damage and surfaced to make repairs, but two Japanese ships began to close in on her. . Despite thorough coverage of the waters assigned her, she made few contacts and each of these was a small antisubmarine vessel. A civilian submarine expert said the 30-year-old Bonefish, one of the Navys last remaining diesel-electric subs, was probably full of toxic chlorine gas created by fire in the shipss forward battery compartment. USSVI has over 13,000 members nationwide. The crew was able to surface the Bonefish and Wilson ordered the evacuation. List of shipwrecks: 2 June 1945 Ship Country Description Koijin Maru Japan The ship was lost at Rabaul, New Guinea. On 8 December 1980, Bonefish stood out of San Diego on her way to duty with the 7th Fleet. Three days later, the submarine attacked a convoy of eight ships, scoring three hits on a freighter before the escorts forced her to go deep to avoid a depth charge attack. Remarks: Depth 400 feet. Underway again on 13 April, Bonefish headed for the Celebes Sea and her fourth war patrol. WDR: War Damage Report. Compiled by Paul W. Wittmer and Charles R. Hinman. Kachidoki Maru, sunk by USS Pampanito on 12 September 1944: 431 British POWs lost out of 950 onboard. This area was further subdivided, with BONEFISH assigned to patrol the northern portion. loss of 102 crew when it was sunk just north of Morotai, between PI and Remarks: No known reports of wreckage being salvaged or sighted. [2][3][4] The frigate USS McCloy, serving as headquarters of the rescue operation, pulled alongside Bonefish to remove the bodies. Sources: R, D, Ros, SFLM, WDR On the 8th, she put to sea for San Diego, her new home port, and reached her destination on 18 November. The escort ships pursued Bonefish, but she was able to dive and elude her attackers. was scuttled in Manila Bay after damage at Cavite Two of the four one hit amidships and another struck the freighter under her mainmast sent the 4,646ton cargo ship Suez Maru down rapidly by the stern. On 24 April 1988, a fire on board USS Bonefish (SS-582) off the coast of Florida killed three crewmen. the loss of 40 crew when it was sunk north of Groluk Island near Truk. Bonefish concluded her first war patrol back at Fremantle,Western Australia on 21 October. She was launched 7 May 1943 (sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth S. Daubin, wife of Rear Admiral Freeland A. Daubin), and commissioned on 31 May 1943, Lieutenant Commander Thomas W. Hogan in command. The month-long prowl, which earned the boat her first Navy Unit Commendation, resulted in the damage of a freighter and two cargo ships and the sinking of two transport ships (9,900 and 10,000 tons, respectively) and a cargo vessel (4,200 tons). Bonefish then set course for Sibutu Passage on a reconnaissance mission. Operational history [ edit] Ros states an attack was made by IJN on 23 Nov and also a reported sighting by Bonefish of a US sub on 2 December. loss of 32 crew when it was sunk after collision with SS City of Rome Afterward USSHoist, a salvage-and-rescue ship, towed Bonefish to Charleston, South Carolina. Sources: R, D, Ros, SFLM, WDR Remarks: Loss date could be as late as 6 February, however Japanese records indicate the loss of 99 crew when it was sunk while in transit from Med, West of But two incapacitated crew members proved impossible to remove. A pararescueman named Larry Grossman also jumped down and remained in the water for hours assisting with the rescue despite enduring personal harm from spilled fuel and chemicals. 2: Tabular Record of Movement", Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_Bonefish_(SS-223)&oldid=1139586503, 11,000 nautical miles (20,000km) surfaced at 10kn (19km/h), This page was last edited on 15 February 2023, at 21:52. USS R-12 (SS-89) was lost on 12-Jun-1943 with the There can be little doubt that Bonefish was sunk in this action. Petty Officer Grossman swam thousands of yards in the choppy waters and received credit for having saved 19 lives. Hearing the fire in the battery well was out of control and that submarines #3 diesel engine had quit when activated, Wilson finally gave the order to abandon ship. Her wreck was only recently discovered. the loss of 70 crew when it was sunk near entrance to Kiska (Alaska) Harbor No declared lost date found. Photographs and personal information are needed as indicated in the column at right. According to helicopter crewman Jim Chapman, the hoist was even lowered inside one of Bonefishs hatches to pry out a heavyset sailor stuck inside. The salvage ship USS Hoist began towing the 219-foot-long Bonefish Wednesday afternoon to its home port of Charleston, S.C., where Navy experts will be able to take a closer look at the damage,. Lastly, I have never been quite as touched as I was by the general level of concern for their shipmates demonstrated by the men on the two frigates, the submarine rescue ship, and the carrier that were on scene. Everts sister, Cynthia Williams, said the Navy had sent someone to their house this morning to announce that Everts body had been found. Power cables in Bonefish 's forward battery. NH, 42 59' 48N - 20 20' 27W lost in the rescue operation. 12 144E She set course for Fremantle the next day, ending her patrol there on 13 August. sinking point. On Eternal Patrol - USS Bonefish (SS-223) The following men were lost while serving on USS Bonefish (SS-223). On 6 October, the boat approached a third convoy and scored hits on two heavily laden cargo vessels. "On Eternal Patrol - Marshal Todd Lindgren", "Investigation into the circumstances surrounding a fire onboard USS Bonefish (SS-582)", Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_Bonefish_(SS-582)&oldid=1145324892, This page was last edited on 18 March 2023, at 14:44. She visited Trinidad, Tobago, Curaao, Colombia, Venezuela, and the Netherlands Antilles before retransiting the canal. Sources: R, D, Ros, SFLM, WDR In two separate attacks, the submarine scored a hit on a large passenger/cargo ship Nichiryo Maru which later sank and another on a destroyer escort which apparently survived. Remarks: Hull raised, studied and scrapped. The typical accident happens when hydrogen builds up in the battery compartments while the sub is charging the batteries, said Norman Friedman, author of Submarine Design and Development.. Another sailor said, however, that the men were newly assigned to the ship and may have gotten lost in the smoke and gas that filled the hull. She concluded that cruise at Pearl Harbor in June 1970. The Navy said the first explosion hit the Bonefish on Sunday afternoon as it was running at periscope depth, engaged in training exercises with surface vessels 160 miles off Florida. Sources: R, D, SFLM She fired six torpedoes and scored four hits. Remarks: Sunk by IJN submarine. When her pursuers left the area, so did Bonefish. Following a week of training out of that port, she again got underway for more days of drills in Moreton Bay. BONEFISH covered a South China Sea area in her sixth patrol, and sank two large tankers and a freighter during September and October 1944. Remarks: Hulk raised and reburied off Serria 13 north of Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor. loss of 84 crew when it was sunk in South China Sea. While on lifeguard duty off Korea's southern coast on 16 April, Bonefish rescued two Japanese aviators who had been shot down by a Navy plane. The warship arrived back in Pearl Harbor on 15 May. Sources: R, D, Ros, SFLM, WDR On 24 April 1988 Bonefish was submerged, during an exercise with guided-missile frigate USSCarr, about 160mi (260km) off the Atlantic coast of Florida, when seawater began leaking onto cables and electric buses in a battery-supply cableway. took place on 25 December. Named Pierces Pole Cats after TUNNY commanding officer Commander George E. Pierce, the wolfpacks assignment was to invade the Sea of Japan, along with two other packs of American subs (Hydemans Hepcats and Bobs Bobcats), and destroy what remained of Japans overseas supply lines. Four days later, while patrolling off Mindoro, the submarine sighted a large, heavily laden tanker escorted by two destroyers. Bonefish managed to evade the escorts, and her crew heard explosions which they interpreted as at least two hits on the oiler and one on the cargo ship. The submarine was taking on water in the torpedo room and the stem room, and when we arrived on scene, was about six or seven degrees down by the bow with water up to the foot of the sail. 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM; 1 PM TO 3:45 PM In July of 1951, Congress authorized construction of the worlds first nuclear powered submarine. Home He received minor chemical burns on his body from the diesel fuel spilled in the ocean. 4-May-1945 with the loss of 88 crew when it was sunk in off Malay Coast in or Minesweeper W.12 picked up the Japanese survivors although recently released documents state that W.12 machine-gunned the surviving POWs (a minimum of 250) in the water,[7]. All of us were dead tired, but the need to get back on board BONEFISH for yet a final effort of damage control was mandatory. On 14 October the Bonefish sank a Japanese sailing vessel in the Makassar Strait. A postwar examination of Japanese records confirmed that Anio Maru sank later that day. Sources: R, D, Ros, SFLM, WDR The first survivor, in a panic, knocked off Grossman's mask and Grossman gave up his own life preserver to calm the sailor down. 17-Oct-1944 with the loss of 82 crew when it was sunk somewhere east of 33 with editorial notes by Robert H. Downie,originally from: U.S. Unable to open the hatch, Everts climbed back down and collapsed on the command centers floor, whereupon Wilson noticed and placed an EAB on his face. Waickiwicz extracted more than twenty crewmembers over three hours using a rescue hoist despite dangerous flying conditions, at one point refusing an order to withdraw. The world's deepest known shipwreck, a World War II US Navy destroyer, has been fully mapped and filmed by a US-based crew. That April Bonefish participated in an anti-submarine training exercise with the John F. Kennedys carrier taskforce 160 miles east of Floridaparticularly sparring with Kennedys anti-submarine helicopters and the escorting frigate USS Carr. On her second war patrol, conducted in the Celebes sea and near Borneo, BONEFISH sank two freighters and an escort vessel, and damaged a minelayer. Sources: R, D, Ros, SFLM, WDR loss of 84 crew when it was sunk 2 miles off west coast of Palawan. [8]) Following this action, she continued to seek targets for more than a month before returning to Fremantle on 15 March. USS Albacore (SS-218) was lost on 7-Nov-1944 with USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was lost on 27-May-1968 with I explained the situation and asked if there were any volunteers to go to BONEFISH, drive the boats and operate the auxiliary equipment topside, recognizing the very difficult situation that existed on the submarine. and only when I was ready to make them. She returned to San Diego in December and began an extended upkeep period.
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