Towed back to Charleston by the aptly named USS Hoist, she was decommissioned five months later and scrapped. Still, Tunny waited in vain off Hokkaid for three days. The warship arrived back in Pearl Harbor on 15 May. 1944. Patrolling in the vicinity of Cape Bolinao on 10 October, the boats attacked a convoy of cargo ships, and Bonefish scored three hits for undetermined damage. 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. USS Bonefish (SS-223) - Navy Unit Directory - Together We Served 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. She attacked a convoy in those waters on 7 May, firing four torpedoes at an escort vessel, but could not observe the results. I have never been more impressed with basic submarining than I was with those young fellows. BONEFISHs luck had finally run out. the 4th as the sinking attack date. 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM; 1 PM TO 3:45 PM The submarine fired five torpedoes. Sources: R, D, SFLM 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. with the loss of 76 crew when it was sunk off Celebes possibly off Kaoe Bay; Later that same day, the boat fired eight torpedoes at a small cargo ship, scoring several hits. 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.. difference. The ship, the USS Johnston, is at a depth of 21,180 feet (about 6,500. She then cleared the area and, the next day, engaged and destroyed another small ship with gunfire. Declared lost Then, after a thorough overhaul and the installation of much new equipment in San Francisco, BONEFISH made her seventh patrol in the East China Sea. 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,. be put to sea. crew were taken prisoner, 57 survived the war. Feb 42 N of Kendari 21 Feb 42 E of Kendari (Ros). loss of 78 crew when it was sunk in Western Atlantic, possibly near Cuba sinking point. USS Squalus (SS-192) was lost on 23-May-1939 with a I had to answer to no one else. made after leaving Darwin around 17 Novemeber 1943. While operating in the vicinity of Makassar Strait on 22 January, Bonefish encountered a large sailing vessel.
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