The Lost Submarines of Pearl Harbor (Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series) by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2016-11-15T21:00:00+00:00

KoK launching Pisces V. (HURL)

HURL’s first foray into maritime heritage came in 1984 with the discovery of an intact US Navy Dauntless SBD dive bomber. It sparked in the team, especially chief submersible pilot Terry Kerby, the realization that while not a formal part of their mission, making practice and shakedown dives to maritime heritage targets would add a unique element to the program and also resolve questions, as HURL put it, that left “the viewer wondering what exactly its life’s story was, and just how and why it ended up in its cold, dark resting place at the bottom of the sea” (HURL 2015).12 In the next three decades, the list of discoveries made as a result of the research and dives undertaken by Terry Kerby, Steve Price, and Max Cremer of HURL in the two Pisces subs has been an incredible inventory of not only miscellaneous artifacts, ammunition dumps, and lost aircraft, trucks, barges, and fuel tanks but also the US Navy submarines S-4 and S-19 and the postwar scuttled Japanese submarines I-14, I-201, I-400, and I-401 (the largest submarines in the world when they were built as aircraft-carrying craft capable of deploying three airplanes each). HURL has also discovered the prewar gunboat USS Bennington, a famous late nineteenth-century navy gunboat involved in the Spanish American War, and the cable ship Dickenson, later used in World War II as the USS Kailua and then scuttled, as well as amphibious landing craft destroyed in the explosions at West Loch Pearl Harbor in 1944. Significantly, they also discovered two kō-hyōteki, which, as we will see, finally resolves the question of where all five of the midgets launched on December 7, 1941, ended up.

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