Most successful torpedo attack ever?
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You really have to wonder what it was about the Mogami & crew
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Possiblly the most important stratigically or destructive might be the attack of a USN S boat that sank a Japanese transport carrying oil extraction & refinery engineers & technicians to the Netherlands East Indies in the spring of 1942. That set back the recovery of oil production in the NEI by several months, complcating & restricting fuel supplies to the Japanese navy & cargo fleet.
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IMHO, sinking of Unryu loaded with Ohkas by USS Redfish was no less important for the Allies.Carl Schwamberger wrote:That set back the recovery of oil production in the NEI by several months, complcating & restricting fuel supplies to the Japanese navy & cargo fleet.
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hi, Carl,
greetings, the pb
was that S-39 sinking the fleet tanker "Erimo" on March, 4 or S-44 sinking the "Shoei Maru" on May, 12, 1942 ?Carl Schwamberger wrote:Possiblly the most important stratigically or destructive might be the attack of a USN S boat that sank a Japanese transport carrying oil extraction & refinery engineers & technicians to the Netherlands East Indies in the spring of 1942. That set back the recovery of oil production in the NEI by several months, complcating & restricting fuel supplies to the Japanese navy & cargo fleet.
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Dozens of Type 91 aerial torpedoes hit the USN batleships. U.S.S. West Virginia alone got hit with 5.
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No, you just have to know what a particular ship's combat record was.Takao wrote:If the USS Yorktown was the "greatest", then your viewpoint is rather limited...
HMS Ark Royal, IJN Taiho, and IJN Shokaku, could all be considered "greater" than the USS Yorktown.
Then you have the "lucky" Japanese destroyer Shigure, who fought in most of the major naval battles during World War II and was the only Japanese ship to survive the Battle of Vella Gulf, and the only Japanese survivor of Nishimura's force at Surigao Strait. Her luck would finally run out when she encountered the USS Blackfin during late-January, 1945.
As you can see "Greatest" is a rather subjective term.
Subjective my butt. Try objective
All your mentions pale in comparison.
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Classy ...ChristopherPerrien wrote:
No, you just have to know what a particular ship's combat record was.
Subjective my butt. Try objective
And you overlook some problems :
1) individual combat record are not necessarily 'objective'.
2) two different combat records may not necessarily be compared
And regarding the narrowest combat record (let's say USN Battle Stars), Yorktown is not at the top of the row.
Olivier
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Hello!
Best regards, Aleks
In such a case, the leader (on the Japanese side) quite well may be Hashimoto's I-58 with sunk Indianapolis (10 Battle Stars).mescal wrote:And regarding the narrowest combat record (let's say USN Battle Stars), Yorktown is not at the top of the row.
Best regards, Aleks
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Perhaps, Christopher has confused CV-5 with CV-10...
Objectively, the USS Yorktown flew some nuisance raids against Japanese outposts, and fought at Coral Sea, before being sunk at Midway. Not really that much of a combat record.
Objectively, the HMS Ark Royal, IJN Shokaku, and IJN Shigure all had longer combat records. So, yes ChristopherPerrien, your answer is subjective.
@AAV,
Don't forget the Shinano was also carrying Ohkas. IIRC, 50 of them when she was sunk.
Objectively, the USS Yorktown flew some nuisance raids against Japanese outposts, and fought at Coral Sea, before being sunk at Midway. Not really that much of a combat record.
Objectively, the HMS Ark Royal, IJN Shokaku, and IJN Shigure all had longer combat records. So, yes ChristopherPerrien, your answer is subjective.
@AAV,
Don't forget the Shinano was also carrying Ohkas. IIRC, 50 of them when she was sunk.
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Just realized this was wrong also. If it was correct how would she have been sunk?ChristopherPerrien wrote: ... the Shinao was merely an aircraft supply ship, was not even fitted out, never fought a battle, ....
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Probably it was meant to be "a major engagement", not "a battle". But, again, it is subjective, because to the sailors on Shinano and Archerfish, it was a "major engagement". From http://www.ussarcherfish.com/captjoe/captjoe.htm
Fifty-six years had not diminished his memory and strong emotion about that very significant event.
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Yes, and both her and Unryu were carrying Shinyo suicide boats.Takao wrote:Don't forget the Shinano was also carrying Ohkas. IIRC, 50 of them when she was sunk.
Best regards, Aleks
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Wow - what sub and what ship was that? Brilliant job by an ancient S-boat! Oil was Japan's Achilles Heel.Carl Schwamberger wrote:Possiblly the most important stratigically or destructive might be the attack of a USN S boat that sank a Japanese transport carrying oil extraction & refinery engineers & technicians to the Netherlands East Indies in the spring of 1942. That set back the recovery of oil production in the NEI by several months, complcating & restricting fuel supplies to the Japanese navy & cargo fleet.
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That was the U.S. submarine Grenadier, which sank the Taiyo Maru on 8 May 1942Tim Smith wrote:Wow - what sub and what ship was that? Brilliant job by an ancient S-boat! Oil was Japan's Achilles Heel.
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Re: Most successful torpedo attack ever?
hi,
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Polar bear wrote:was that S-39 sinking the fleet tanker "Erimo" on March, 4 or S-44 sinking the "Shoei Maru" on May, 12, 1942 ?Carl Schwamberger wrote:Possibly the most important stratigically or destructive might be the attack of a USN S boat that sank a Japanese transport carrying oil extraction & refinery engineers & technicians to the Netherlands East Indies in the spring of 1942. That set back the recovery of oil production in the NEI by several months, complcating & restricting fuel supplies to the Japanese navy & cargo fleet.
USS Grenadier was far from being "ancient", she belonged to the 6 boats comprising GAR-class and had been commissoned May 1, 1941, just one year before its great success.Ironmachine wrote:That was the U.S. submarine Grenadier, which sank the Taiyo Maru on 8 May 1942Tim Smith wrote:Wow - what sub and what ship was that? Brilliant job by an ancient S-boat! Oil was Japan's Achilles Heel.
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greetings, the pb
Peace hath her victories no less renowned than War
(John Milton, the poet, in a letter to the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652)
(John Milton, the poet, in a letter to the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652)