November 2020 Volume 21, Issue 11

Lest We Forget — Inside This Issue: Meeting minutes 2 “The USSVI Submariner’s Creed” Lost Boats 2

To perpetuate the memory of our shipmates who Undersea Warfare Hist 2 gave their lives in the pursuit of their duties while San Francisco now MTS 3 serving their country. That their dedication, deeds, The quiet NARWHAL 4 and supreme sacrifice be a constant source of New SSN - USS BARB 6 motivation toward greater accomplishments. Pledge loyalty and patriotism to the United States of Contact information 9 America and its Constitution. Application form 10

News Brief 1. Next Meeting: Restrictions on group gatherings related to Coronavirus have caused a temporary suspension of our monthly meetings. One outdoor meeting is scheduled as noted below.

November 21 – This will be a virtual meeting using Zoom.

December 19 – WATCH E-MAIL FOR AN ANNOUNCEMENT. 2. Duty Cook Roster: a. GET READY TO VOLUNTEER WHEN OUR MEETINGS RESUME. 3. November Birthdays: Gary Walters, 7th; Len Wass 10th; Bill Stannard 15th; Pete Almeroth 18th; David Fitzgerald 23rd; and Manny Garmendez 27th. Happy Birthday Shipmates! 4. Do you shop on Amazon? Remember to use Amazon Smile for the benefit of our Charitable Foundation. 5. Due to being unable to meet in-person, Crash Dive will not sponsor a Toys for Tots collection box this year. Shipmates are encouraged to participate in their own communities.

Crash Dive Meeting Minutes Cobia drydocking, remaining funds from October 17, 2020 memorial could be freed up to assist drydock

Table discussions on memorial funds & Call to Order elections until quorum can be met Addition to lost boat list. Recommend (difficult with COVID & holidays coming checking with USSVI national. up). Attendance: Meeting Adjourned  Clay Hill & Mrs. Hill

 Maurice Young  Frank Voznak Lost Boats  Larry Warnke  Scott Jaklin USS ALBACORE (SS 218) 11/7/44  Herman Mueller USS GROWLER (SS 215) 11/8/44  Brett Zacher USS SCAMP (SS 277) 11/16/44  Manuel Garmendez USS CORVINA (SS 226) 11/16/43 Herman Mueller donates model USS SCULPIN (SS 191) 11/19/43 to base; will be custodian Larry says KSC is almost back up to full operation. Undersea Warfare History  Memorial signage addition, national has approved division of  November 1, 1944 | USS Ray (SS funds 271) sank the cargo Horai Maru  Discussion of appropriating no. 7, landed men and supplies on our portion to Cobia the West Coast of Mindoro, picking o Ideas for how to disperse up 2 downed Navy fliers, 2 Army Chicago Base‟s funds, POW‟s escaped from Corrgidor and (directly/through an escaped Filipino political prisoner. national/joint donation to  November 2, 1943 | USS Trigger Cobia) (SS 237) fired three torpedoes at a 7,148 ton transport ship Delagoa o Next step: contact with Maru. All torpedoes hit the ship, and Michelle Delagoa Maru disintegrated. o Frank stays on as project  November 3, 1944 | USS Gurnard manager (SS 254) attacks a Japanese and sinks the Japanese freighter  Base Elections Taimei Maru west of the Labaun, o No other nominations or Borneo. positions  November 4, 1971| USS Nathanael  Dues Greene (SSBN 636) launches a o Contact National about Poseidon C-3 Missile in the first dues deadline, still surface launch of the weapon. December?  November 5, 1943 | USS Tullibee o Need to finalize roster, get (SS 284) was running submerged invoices sent out near Okinoyerabu Shima when she sighted a large, three-story building Page 2 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL

on the island. She surfaced and fired (SS 222) sinks the Japanese 55 shells into the barracks before Sanae and damages the retiring at full speed. oiler Ondo 90 miles south of Basilan  November 6, 1954 | USS Thornback Island. (SS 418) was the first to  November 19, 1944 | USS snorkel in the Mississippi River at Pampanito (SS 383) sank the 1,200 New Orleans, Louisiania from the ton Shinko Maru No. 1 Industrial Canal to the foot of Canal and damaged another ship. street.  November 20, 1943 | USS Harder  November 9, 1944 | USS Queenfish (SS 257) radioed her companions (SS 393) attacks a Japanese convoy and closed for attack after sighting and sinks the Chojusan three Japanese . Harder fired Maru about 50 miles west of Kyushu. eight torpedoes, sinking the Udo  November 10, 1943 | USS Scamp Maru and Hokho Maru. (SS 277) disabled the 6,481-ton  November 30, 1993 | President Tokyo Maru after evading its escorts, William J. Clinton signs legislation and pumped three more torpedoes that lifts the ban on women serving into the target. It later learned that aboard combat ships. Tokyo Maru sank before daybreak.  November 11 1943| USS Capelin Norfolk Naval Shipyard (SS 289) sank a 3,127-ton Japanese cargo ship off Ambon Island. (NNSY) successfully  November 12, 1943 | USS Harder undocked USS San (SS 257) encountered a target and after promptly dispatching it, Francisco (SSN 711) surfaced and sighted a trawler-escort Michael Brayshaw, NAVSEA.Navy.mil, October 6 damaged by the explosion of one of its own depth charges. Submerging Converting San Francisco into a moored again until sunset, the submarine training ship required NNSY to separate sank the damaged ship with gunfire. the boat into three pieces, the removal of  November 13, 1976 | The lead ship and recycling the center section, and then of the newly created - adding three new sections. The new class submarine, USS Los Angeles sections arrived from Electric Boat via (SSN 688), is commissioned. barge, which NNSY then craned into the  November 16, 1963 | President dock and attached to the San Francisco. John F. Kennedy, aboard USS “We’ve been in dock for 34 months, so it’s Observation Island (EAG 154), been a lot of effort to get to this day, but witnesses the launch of Polaris A-2 it’s exciting to be undocking with more missile by USS Andrew Jackson than 90 percent production work (SSBN 619). complete,” said Project Superintendent  November 17, 1944 | USS Sunfish (SS 281) sighted a convoy of eight Charles Brock. “We applied a lot of lessons ships led by escort carrier Jinyo. The learned from the La Jolla in areas such as carrier quickly passed out of range, Engineering Safeguard Features piping but Sunfish fired on and sank installation, component outfitting and Edogawa Maru and . tank restoration.”  November 18, 1943 | USS Bluefish “Over the next year, San Francisco will undergo preparations for the final test Page 3 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL program, grooming of the forward projects has allowed those MILCONs to electrical systems and spaces for turnover execute in parallel with execution of the to the ship,” said Brock. San Francisco is project. This helps pave the way for the expected to be complete its conversion to shipyard to more effectively integrate a full-fledged moored training ship in late with future MILCONs in parallel with summer of 2021. executing our work,” said Brock. San Francisco and La Jolla replace “Congratulations and thank you to former submarines originally everyone who supported getting Norfolk commissioned in 1964 and that have been Naval Shipyard and the San Francisco in use as training platforms for the past team to this important day!” said Shipyard three decades. Commander Rear Admiral Howard Markle. NNSY has been bustling on its “As a vital platform for the Navy's training waterfront, with USS Pasadena (SSN 752) program, this conversion will provide a arriving for a Selected Restricted steady pipeline of fully trained and well- Drydocking Availability (DSRA) Sept. 28 prepared fleet operators. This long-term and USS Wyoming (SSBN 742) finishing its investment will pay great dividends for the Engineered Refueling Overhaul. Navy over the next several decades in Additionally, USS George H.W. Bush (CVN ensuring proficiency and excellence across 77) moved pierside at the end of August the fleet, whenever and wherever our after eighteen months in dock. With a Sailors are called upon.” surge of ship movements and waterfront space at a premium, coordination and This Staggeringly Quiet Sub ingenuity between shipyard project teams has been crucial. Changed The Navy “We have had good Forever. Now, It's All Scrap. communications with Pasadena and our Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, October 6 Temporary Services (Code 990), clearing the dock to allow the team to start their Workers at a shipyard in Puget dry dock build, and reducing what is Sound, Washington recently finished typically a four to six-week build period up scrapping one of the quietest U.S. down to two weeks post undock,” said Navy submarines of all time, despite Brock. attempts to salvage it. The USS Narwhal was a test boat for new Military construction (MILCON) quieting technologies that later projects near San Francisco’s dry dock allowed U.S. subs to become some of required even more coordination. As part the sneakiest in the world. of the Navy’s Shipyard Infrastructure

Optimization Program, a 20-year, $21 The Cold War was a relentless billion program dedicated to refurbishing competition for military supremacy, the nation’s four public shipyards by both in numbers and technology. The modernizing equipment, improving U.S. and Soviet arms race extended all workflow and upgrading dry docks and the way to the bottom of the world’s facilities, the piers adjacent to the drydock oceans, with both sides striving to are being replaced and utility upgrades for build powerful, deep-diving, quiet a neighboring dry dock are also underway. submarines. One of the U.S. Navy’s “Our interface with the restoration boldest forays into building Page 4 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL undetectable submarines was the USS result, the Narwhal was much quieter Narwhal and the technological than her peers—so quiet, in fact, that innovations fitted into her. the Navy adopted the circulation system for upcoming Ohio-class The Navy commissioned the Narwhal ballistic missile subs. in July 1969. It was based on the Sturgeon-class nuclear attack The Narwhal served from 1969 until submarines, and its purpose was to 1999, when the Navy decommissioned test new technologies for future subs. her from active duty service. The sub The Navy gave Narwhal was given an deployed 17 times, and according to elongated hull to accommodate the the Federation of American Scientists, large new S5G nuclear reactor power she received numerous medals, plant, which produced 17,000 shaft including the Navy Unit horsepower (SHP), approximately Commendation, three Meritorious 2,000 more SHP than the previous Unit Commendations, and five Battle S5W. Efficiency "E" awards.

The Narwhal was also the first This content is imported from {embed- submarine to test the powerful new name}. You may be able to find the BQQ-5 underwater active sonar, a same content in another format, or complicated new direct drive system you may be able to find more that eliminated the noise made by information, at their web site. reduction gears underway, according to the Kitsap Sun. While the Narwhal’s activities are still classified, experts generally think they The Narwhal’s most important involved collecting intelligence on the innovation was the use of “natural Soviet Union and Soviet naval forces— circulation” to cool the S5G reactor. particularly submarines. The ship's This process involved using water possible missions could have included convection to move pressurized water tailing new Soviet subs and surface at slow speeds, rather than the warships to learn their unique existing method of using powered underwater acoustic signatures, and pumps to push water past the sneaking up close to the Soviet reactors. The Navy tested the system coastline to snoop on military in the mid-1960s in a land prototype communications. in Arco, Idaho, where the service conducted research on nuclear After the Navy decommissioned the propulsion systems. Narwhal, preservationists lobbied to turn it into a floating museum. While For years, reactor cooling pump noise the foundation overseeing the process was among the loudest mechanical did receive permission to proceed, the equipment on a sub, but the Navy scope of the project was ultimately considered it a trade-off for using beyond its grasp. The submarine was nuclear propulsion. The natural towed into dry dock 3 at Puget Sound circulation process eliminated the Naval Shipyard, where she was need for water cooling pumps. As a dismantled. Page 5 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL

The submarine’s still will be sold for submarine, USS Barb, and DDG-137, scrap, while the S5G reactor was an Arleigh Burke-class Flight III encased in a steel tomb. The reactor, destroyer, USS John F. Lehman. like other reactors from Lehman served as the Navy secretary decommissioned nuclear submarines, under former President Ronald Reagan. will be transported by barge up the Columbia River to the Hanford Site “One of these storied vessels was USS for storage. According to the Oregon Barb, SS-220, which sank 17 enemy Department of Energy, submarine vessels, including an , and even landed troops to blow up a train on reactors are typically 33 high by 40 the Imperial Japanese Homeland. She feet long and weigh between 1,130 and was honored with both a Presidential 1,680 tons. Unit Citation and a Congressional Medal of Honor for her Commanding Officer The days of producing one-off Eugene B. Fluckey,” Braithwaite said of submarines to test new engineering the World War II boat in prepared concepts are likely over. The cost is remarks. simply too great, and new digital engineering and modeling techniques “And so today, in grateful memory of the make it possible to predict how Silent Service Sailors of World War II, equipment will work without building and what the record of this great ship an entire weapon system around it. meant to the service, I am announcing that the next attack submarine, SSN- The U.S. Navy may never build a ship 804, will be named USS Barb,” he like Narwhal again, but then again, it continued. may not have to. Braithwaite has told USNI News on multiple occasions that he‟s an avid SECNAV Names Attack student of naval history and looks to Boat After WWII USS Barb, draw lessons from the past to help guide DDG for Former SECNAV the Navy today. Last week he announced that the first guided-missile Lehman would be named USS Mallory Shelbourne, USNI News, October 13 Constellation (FFG-62), after four previous ships, including one of the Secretary of the Navy Kenneth Navy‟s original six . He told USNI Braithwaite named the next Virginia- News at the same event that he drew class attack boat after the famed World lessons from World War II‟s use of light War II-era submarine USS Barb (SS- carriers in shaping his views on the 220) and a new destroyer after former future naval fleet and its use of light Navy Secretary John Lehman in a carriers to supplement nuclear-powered Tuesday ceremony. aircraft carriers.

Braithwaite announced the two new ship The SECNAV has also repeatedly called names during an event unveiling plans Lehman a mentor and personal friend to construct a new Navy museum in and told USNI News that the upcoming Washington, D.C. The service will call growth in the naval fleet, if a Pentagon SSN-804, a Virginia-class attack plan to grow to 500 ships is executed, Page 6 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL would be the most exciting time for the The U.S. Navy Is Extremely Navy since Lehman led the force in the 1980s. Interested in Occupying This Secret Bond Villain Lair Braithwaite spoke at an event in the Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, October 15 Washington Navy Yard announcing the service‟s plans to construct a new U.S. The U.S. Navy could start keeping its Navy Museum. submarines at a former Norwegian naval base. The base, located at Olavsvern in The Navy is still working to determine northern Norway, is built under a hill resting where it will build the museum, but the alongside the Norwegian Sea, with a large service hopes to find a spot near the entrance capable of admitting ships and Washington Navy Yard, outside of the submarines. The underground facility could base so members of the public can prove a useful staging area for American easily visit, according to a Naval History submarines spying on Russia’s Northern and Heritage Command news release. Fleet, hiding them from prying eyes. The Navy is pressuring the The service will work with a non-profit to Norwegian government to allow it to access raise money for the effort, the release the Olavsvern, according to the Norwegian said. news network NRK. Occupying the base would make it possible “for the [American] “The total estimated funds required for attack submarine to quickly go to sea if an the construction of the state-of-the-art emergency situation should arise,” NRK facility is $204 million for phase one of says. The network reports U.S. Navy the project, with opportunities for spiral submarines already use nearby Malangen for development of additional phases crew swaps and taking on supplies. totaling $450 million,” according to the The Norwegian military first release. developed Olavsvern in 1963, then spent 30 years and $500 million completing it. The The Navy plans to finish the structure by base features enough room for ammunition 2025, for the Navy‟s 250th birthday, depots, fuel depots, workshops, barracks, a Braithwaite said. deep water berth, dry dock, and even an emergency power system. The current National Museum of the The base includes 13,500 square U.S. Navy (NMUSN) is inside the meters of buildings and 25,000 square Washington Navy Yard base and has meters of other space. Underground roads become difficult to access over the lead into the space from farther inland. years due to increased security During the Cold War, the Royal Norwegian protocols. The museum previously Navy and submarines from allied navies featured a display ship, former-USS used the base. It was a convenient stopping Barry (DD-933), but the Navy removed point for submarines headed north into the the decommissioned ship from the pier Barents Sea, a sanctuary for the Soviet in 2016 and did not replace it with Union’s missile submarines, and adjacent to another decommissioned ship. many Soviet Northern Fleet ports, air bases, and other facilities.

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Japan unveils 3,000-ton The Taigei will be the first in the new Taigei-class category following the new submarine Oyashio and Soryu. Staff, Today, October 14

Japan's newest submarine was The U.S. Navy Is Trying to unveiled Wednesday at a shipyard in Resupply Nuclear Kobe, as part of efforts to boost the country's maritime security amid Submarines with Drones Caleb Larson, National Interest Online, October 22 's growing assertiveness in the region. The U.S. Navy just tested a new delivery The 3,000-ton sub, named the system for supplying submarines while Taigei, was built by Mitsubishi Heavy underway at sea—by drone. In a video Industries Ltd and is scheduled to go released by the Navy, a large quadcopter- into service in March 2022, becoming type drone seen hovering above the deck of the 22nd vessel in the Maritime Self- a ballistic missile submarine. A small Defense Force's submarine fleet. payload, not much larger than a small Under its 2010 National Defense backpack, dangled from a line attached to Program Guidelines, Tokyo set a goal of the drone. Despite the gentle rolling of the increasing the number of its submarine’s hull, the drone successfully submarines from 16 to 22 in light of made the drop. The video description read: increasing activities by Beijing in waters near Japan, especially around a “An unmanned aerial vehicle delivers a group of Japan-administered islands payload to the Ohio-class ballistic-missile claimed by China in the . submarine USS Henry M. Jackson (SSBN The Taigei, meaning big whale in 730) around the Hawaiian Islands. Japanese, measures 84 meters in Underway replenishment sustains the fleet length and 9.1 meters in width and cost anywhere/anytime. This event was designed around 76 billion yen ($720 million) to to test and evaluate the tactics, techniques, build, according to the MSDF. and procedures of U.S. Strategic The 70-crew member submarine Command's expeditionary logistics and enhance the overall readiness of our has a stealth-like design and is strategic forces.” equipped with lithium-ion batteries so that it can remain underwater longer The USS Henry M. Jackson has a crew of than previous models, it also said. about 155 Officers and Sailors, so the small Some 150 people, including drone-delivered package probably wasn’t Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi and MSDF carrying food supplies—it was after all an Chief of Staff Hiroshi Yamamura, evaluation. It also didn’t travel far to get to attended a ceremony held at the major the submarine. Photos from the event Japanese defense equipment maker's showed that the quadcopter took off from a Kobe Shipyard in Hyogo Prefecture. small surface ship perhaps a few hundred Japan currently operates nine 2,750-ton meters away from the USS Henry M. Oyashio-class submarines and 11 2,950- Jackson. ton Soryu-class warships, and is planning to introduce a 12th Soryu- Still, the evaluation did demonstrate the class sub next year. potential ways in which submarines, and

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really any other surface ship can be Food and Ammunition resupplied without even having to go into port. This is particularly true of small- Alternative resupply methods are not just a volume supplies like medical or emergency topic of interest for the U.S. Navy either. supplies. The Navy’s sister service, the Marine Corps is also exploring alternative resupply Chatter techniques. One proposed method takes a page from narco trafficers and the semi- The other important aspect of small, drone- submersibles they sometimes use to move carried deliveries at sea? Communications. illicit drugs across the ocean to the United In an environment where radio silence must States or Europe. By building a number of be maintained, or where communication cheap, automatically piloted semi- disruptions are being experienced due to submersibles, the Marine Corps could in enemy jamming or other interference, theory also keep groups of Marines on far- drones could serve as the new message- flung Pacific islands fed, watered, and bearing carrier pigeons. resupplied.

Previously, the Navy also experimented Postscript with using helicopters to deliver messages between ships by dropping a message in a To be sure, the small quadcopter with its bean bag-like package onto ship decks. presumably limited range and its even During World War II the tactic had been smaller payload doesn’t exactly herald an used with some success in the Pacific to immediate revolution in U.S. Naval resupply alert carrier groups about Japanese fleet’s techniques—it was after a small-scale whereabouts while maintaining radio experiment. But, it does show how military silence. logistics is changing.

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APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP Regular  Life  Associate  OUR CREED: “To perpetuate the memory of our shipmates who gave their lives in the pursuit of their duties while serving their country. That their dedication, deeds and supreme sacrifice be a constant source of motivation toward greater accomplishments. Pledge loyalty and patriotism to the United States of America & its Constitution.”

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