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The Dolphin Brotherhood Page 2 the DOLPHIN BROTHERHOOD US Submarine Veterans Inc. (USSVI ) Volume 4, Issue 4 Seattle Base July-August 2002 How “Cutie” Saved Our Christmas Eve by Captain George W. this one through for we ough depth-charging re- Folta, USN Retired were approaching Lombok sulting in some physical Strait. damage to the subs and a The night was clear and "They" would be waiting great deal of nerve shat- warm. The moon was for us on Lombok and in tering apprehension for high, and we could see the the Strait; shore batteries the men. Furthermore, outlines of the islands of on Lombok and anti- there was a strong current Lombok and Bali in the submarine patrol craft in running through the Strait. distance. We were head- the Strait. The Japanese Tonight it was running ing north to our knew that Lombok Strait from north to south. We scheduled operating was the gate- knew if we transited it sub- area off the east way through merged, headway would coast of what was the Dutch East be very slow making us a then called Indo- Indies where sitting duck target for the China. We were the Allied subma- anti-submarine patrol craft US submarine rines transited above. None of us cared BLUEGILL. We had from "down for close depth charges. just finished a refit in under" to the Submarines on the sur- Fremantle, the har- Japanese-held face are difficult to see at bor of Perth, West Austra- islands and homelands to night unless they cross the lia. the north. Headquarters moon's path, but the moon It was late Christmas had not reported any of was high overhead this Eve 1944 and many of us our submarines lost in night, so after mulling over were reminiscing on Lombok Strait, but we the pros and cons, the Christmases past and knew that the enemy had Captain and the Executive (See “Cutie...” on page 5) praying that we could see given some of them a thor- Commander’s Corner by Patrick Householder, Base Commander Base! Membership is of us participating have growing, attendance is up found the experience to be and our meeting speaker very satisfying as we're program has been very educating many people as well received. Many of our to submariners and members and some from submarines in general, Bremerton Base as well plus we're seeing a great have become volunteer many non USSVI subvets Sub Reps (Docents Mates) coming down to visit, on the Russian Foxtrot which gives us an oppor- It's been a good year submarine now open at tunity to tell them about to date for Seattle Pier 48 in Seattle. Those (Continued on page 12) The Dolphin Brotherhood Page 2 THE DOLPHIN BROTHERHOOD The Pooping Incident By Dave Goodson (and a cast of thousands) Situation: Sea Horse 669 coming out of had gone to bed in my upper bunk in the lower Naples in the early 70's, from LL OPS, and level ops forward of the torpedo room, and I Torpedo Room. Following is a recounting from heard a horrible roaring noise. UL OPS Control Room, and an eyewitness from aft: I remember thinking either someone had cracked a flap while blowing sanitaries or we I recall the Naples incident distinctly. I still were flooding. have nightmares about it. I got down from my bunk, in my skivvies, my We had just been discussing, with Lt. feet hit water. I went around the corner and Fredrickson, I think, the "reasons" we had lost looked up the ladder towards the crew's head. the Scorpion. At that time, it seems the All I could see was water cascading down general understanding was they shot the GDU from the bridge trunk drain in the overhead (we called it the TDU) at too great a depth outside the crew's head doorway. An unknown while transiting, it blew the unit when they crewmember was observed trying to push the opened the hull globe valve, shock wave put water away from the power distribution panels all crew unconscious, and the salt water went also outside the head doorway. I yelled at him into the battery compartment and blew the to get away from the live panel. bottom out. The claim was they found pieces of the phenolic grating above the cells with the About this point, the 1MC cracked to life, the color of the torpedo room floor compressed COW was sputtering "flooding......control into it. Seems all SSNs had different colored, room.....now......". I immediately recalled the and carefully logged, colors on each floor of discussion of the Scorpion, recalled the each deck in each compartment, at least that's sprung battery compartment hatch in the deck what they told us then, and Officers never lied of the Torpedo Room, and yelled, out loud, to us, right? "Oh My God, the batteries!" Information released over the years has I immediately, still in my skivvies, entered the shown a different scenario, but that is the torpedo room, and saw a wall of green water information we had in the old brain bucket at piled against the starboard side of the the time. Torpedo Room, as we were heeled well over to starboard. Anyway, we were coming out of Naples in State 4 seas, trying to escape a Typhoon, I quickly ordered a seaman, also in skivvies, to preparing to dive. The IC of the watch ( Joe grab my ankles, and I grabbed his, and we Buller, I think) was in the Bridge Access Trunk formed a ring around the hatch laying upon to pull the suitcase, OOD and 2 watches the deck. I then ordered the remaining crew in still in the sail. OOD looked aft, saw a HUGE the Torpedo Room to grab the bedding from wave about to poop us, said "Oh My God", the hot-bunks strapped to the torpedo racks, grabbed both watches around the neck, pulled and to duct tape us in to the floor. This they them in the sail and they held on. We were did. shoved down to 125 feet with bridge access hatches open, IC man in the trunk, and the The Horse, by an act of God and the skill of fairwater planes still secured for surface. Electric Boat, surfaced itself. About 15 The maneuvering watch had been secured, I minutes into this ordeal, the water level had VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4 Page 3 gone down, drain pumps were running to suck I thought we had just finished our change of the bilges out, and they un-taped us. I tried to command and had departed Naples, Italy when return to my bunk for clothes, but as I stepped we had the flooding in the control room. The into the berthing area, got low current 110v sea state was rather rough, and we had not into my feet. I jumped back into the Torpedo reached the dive point. We had the Admiral Room, looked around the corner, and saw from Naples on board. We were taking waves seawater running out of the lights at the over the sail and the CO had decided that it battery test station. would be safer if we brought down the OOD, and lookout. We were making preps to clear the Later inspection showed there was one drop bridges. The AEF had just started up the trunk of seawater running down the side of the and we took another major wave. I was in the hatch, stopped at the seal lip. control room when it all occurred. The AEF was found unconscious, I was told The wave had pinned the AEF against the his fingers were still locked to the Bridge floating wire mechanism, and It had knocked Access Ladder, and he was removed from the the lookout down the ladder, and the OOD was trunk. He was unconscious and beaten to a pinned as he was trying to clear the bridge. We pulp by all the seawater passing him. He was took on so much water that it caused the BCP, placed on a table in the crews mess where IC SWBD, and FC switchboards to short out. All Doc Bacon worked on him for 20-30 minutes. I of the ship alarms were sounding at the same saw them working on him. He was green and time. The COW just got out the word that we looked dead. had flooding in the control room. We lost all lighting in the control room, I think it took a long I went to the control room to report, still in my time to clear it all up. skivvies. If I recall, the DivCom, I thought an Admiral, was aboard, and saw me. We got I ran behind the FC system and secured the IC dressed and began cleanup after we dived to & FC switchboard as sparks were flying around get away from the storm. the top of the switchboards. I am not sure what the depth gauge indicated before we got back I recall Scalia, maybe, QM with a whole armful the surface. I think the COW blew the forward of brand new sponges, still compressed, group. The water went all the way to the walking into the control room, and throwing Torpedo room. We were lucky that we got back them out like Frisbees onto the water on the to the surface, and not lost the OOD and deck of the control room. The Admiral said to lookout. After that there was more specific him, "That won't do any good", but Scalia said direction from SUBLANT on what to do during "Oh, yeah? Just watch!" and wherever they rough weather on the surface.
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