Concentrated Ship Wrecks
Concentrated Ship Wrecks
Found this fascinating map of ships sunk in Iron Bottom Sound, made infamous during the Guadalcanal sea battles of '42 and '43.
Quite mind-boggling, and testament to the savage sea battles throughout the Guadalcanal campaign. Losses among US destroyers were exceptionally severe. I remember reading in 'South Pacific Destroyer' by Russell Crenshaw that life expectancy of surviving a deployment was very low.
The only other spot that would come close to the naval losses suffered around Guadalcanal would, I suppose, be in the Mediterranean. But I don't have any numbers for that Sea; and of course it is a far larger area.
By the by, the map is courtesy of: By User:W.wolny, Upload from German Wikipedia
Quite mind-boggling, and testament to the savage sea battles throughout the Guadalcanal campaign. Losses among US destroyers were exceptionally severe. I remember reading in 'South Pacific Destroyer' by Russell Crenshaw that life expectancy of surviving a deployment was very low.
The only other spot that would come close to the naval losses suffered around Guadalcanal would, I suppose, be in the Mediterranean. But I don't have any numbers for that Sea; and of course it is a far larger area.
By the by, the map is courtesy of: By User:W.wolny, Upload from German Wikipedia
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Had the map been extended just a bit more to the NW it would have included the cruiser Furataka and destroyers Natsugumo and Murakumo, all lost during the battle of Cape Esperance and subsequent retreat
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Truk(Chuuk) Lagoon & Truk Islands would be another
Bikini Atoll would be a third location in the Pacific that comes to mind.
Bikini Atoll would be a third location in the Pacific that comes to mind.
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Thanks for those maps! Nice.
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Good heavens. I hadn't realised that so many ships were sunk in and around Truk lagoon.
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TF 58 had a field dayPips wrote:Good heavens. I hadn't realised that so many ships were sunk in and around Truk lagoon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hailstone
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Re: Concentrated Ship Wrecks
A hell of a lot of ships were sunk in the English Channel during the war. Possibly there are some places of similar size, perhaps off Dunkirk or Normandy, where there are as many wrecks as there are in Iron Bottom Sound, but I'm just guessing.The only other spot that would come close to the naval losses suffered around Guadalcanal would, I suppose, be in the Mediterranean.
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The fjords around Narvik also contain multiple wrecks. In addition to the 10 German destroyers there are also 2 British and one Polish destroyer, a U-boat, two old Norwegian coast defense ironclads and a score of merchant ships.
The gods do not deduct from a man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
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