USS Samuel B Roberts Has Been Found

The “destroyer escort that fought like a battleship” has been found off the island of Samar in the Philippines. Resting in 6,895 meters of water, she is now the deepest shipwreck ever discovered.

Say something nice about her, /k/.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This has been a great year for finding shipwrecks, first the Endurance and now this. Is someone funding more expeditions all of the sudden?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Most likely tech and software have gotten so much better

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I don't know for certain but Paul Allen (of Microsoft, not American Psycho) was the one who was financing wreck discovery for a while. He died, but his operation may have continued as planned after he died, since his sister was pretty intent on making sure that his death didn't disrupt the projects he had as a legacy.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >At 09:35, the order was given to abandon ship. She sank 30 minutes later, with 90 of her sailors.
        those were probably mostly dead, not movably injured or stuck somewhere under twisted metal

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Didn't one of his expeditions find the Indianapolis too?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          yes, he did.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Let’s see Paul Allens shipwreck discovery

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Shipwreck_discoveries_by_Paul_Allen

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            oh my god it even has its own wikipedia page

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Impressive very nice

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Autonomous underwater drones, analysis software and the ability to store and share scan data has greatly expanded in the recent decade. There's tons of lost secrets from the past down there and if software can pinpoint the non-natural objects for better analysis by people, then a lot of those secrets will be revealed...

      https://cacm.acm.org/news/237508-nderwater-drones-nearly-triple-ocean-floor-data/fulltext

      >The Ocean Infinity seabed-exploration company has deployed underwater drones to find sunken ships, while two nonprofits hope to map the whole ocean floor by 2030; the Norwegian company Kongsberg Maritime produced the underwater drones for both projects.

      >Kongsberg's Bjorn Jalving said the company's flagship Hugin drone’s onboard sensors cover five times the area of drones from 10 years ago, with detail expanded 10-fold. The drones also can transfer, process, and exchange data with remote command centers.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Here's more:

        https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-07/underwater-drones-nearly-triple-data-from-the-ocean-floor

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Hugin 6000 drones
          >Hugin
          >drones
          BELKAN WITCHCRAFT STRIKES AGAIN

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Kongsberg
        The Navy has a lot of these drones too. Useful little guys.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        A fallen angel was woken up by doing this shit, it was not happy.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Its "all of a sudden" you illiterate homosexual.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >calling someone out for grammar while failing to use the right form of "it's"
        Fight me irl

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >last known survivor, adred lenoir, died on march 20 of this year
    Damn, imagine if he held for just three more months to hear they found the wreck.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this is unnecessarily sad anon :/

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Well he lived to 98, seems to have had a good life. Not to mention, how many other 19 year olds could say they fought a naval battle in the Pacific, had their brand new ship sunk, and live?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'm glad these expeditions are picking back up again. Finding wrecks is always fascinating.

      RIP. At least the entirety of the ship's company is together.
      I got emotional of the video when the HMS Hood was found and they brought Ted Briggs, her last survivor, aboard the research vessel to view live video.

      Imagine having 4 battleships, half a dozen heavy cruisers, and a dozen destroyers and being so cowardly to be run off by a couple destroyers.

      The battle is very interesting. The Americans and Japanese both made some big mistakes, but in the end it was the Japanese who failed to capitalize on their surprise.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >when everyone has the element of surprise

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Shortly after dawn on 25 October, Samuel B. Roberts was protecting Taffy 3's escort carriers whose aircraft were supporting the Army assault. The warships were steaming off the eastern coast of Samar when the Japanese Center Force, a 23-ship task force under the command of Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita, appeared on the horizon and opened fire. At 07:35, Roberts turned and headed toward the heavy cruiser Chōkai. The commanding officer, Copeland, announced "We're making a torpedo run. The outcome is doubtful, but we will do our duty."
      >The outcome is doubtful, but we will do our duty."
      Frick me, that is badass. There is no better test of a man than his devotion to duty in the face of certain death.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The ship would not let anyone finding him unless all the crew was ready.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        So like the end of Titanic where Rose dies and comes back to the ship?

        Sammy wanted all hands on deck for when she was found?

        That's spooky and touching at the same time.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Is that literally the only thing that you think about every single ay of every hour?

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    ngl I was half in tears listening to this

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'd be so tempted to call this a comedy of error for the Japanese if so many people hadn't died. Geeze.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Black comedy of errors.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >Most of the US navy is at the bottom of the ocean
    america overestimates its opponents using metrics they couldn't dream of achieving while its opponents vastly underestimate it. this trend will continue and the west will profit

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Unlike the Moskva though they were scuttled or used in training as targets

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Look man, this thread is about the historic discovery of a participant in one of the truly heroic actions in modern combat history. You’re dishonoring the dead and the survivors alike. If you don’t have anything positive to say, go jack yourself to sleep in one of the hundred vatnik cope threads shitting up this board. No (you) for you.

    More pics incoming.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Text of the announcement:
      > Following Victor’s Twitter announcement, I can now reveal that we found the wreck of USS Samuel B. Roberts at 6895m. Victor and sonar operator Jeremie Morizet found her upright and nestled up against a ridge, all there but broken in two. It will take me some time to conduct a full analysis of the imagery but at first glance I can tell that she sank intact with the exception of her stern, which was blasted away during the battle down to her rudder posts. She nosed into the bottom but encountered hard rock instead of soft sand. Her bow crumpled and her stern slammed down across a ridge. The ridge broke her keel and the stern separated where she had suffered a battleship salvo on the surface that tore away her port side. More details will come out later after I have completed a thorough analysis. My report, like the one I wrote for the USS Johnston wreck last year, will be submitted to the Naval History and Heritage Command.

      The wreck of “The Destroyer Escort that fought like a Battleship” was found, coincidentally enough, on Destroyer Escort Day.

      The Sammy B now replaces Johnston (6469m) as the world’s deepest shipwreck.

      Photos taken by Jeremie Morizet from the observer seat in the DSV Limiting Factor. This is the Limiting Factor’s final wreck finding expedition, she transfers to a new owner next month.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Is that one of her torpedo batteries?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >one of
          the only, she had just one set of torpedo tubes

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Well shit.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              DEs are LITTLE boats. It's a wonder the weight of the brass balls of the crews didn't sink them at port.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >The Sammy B now replaces Johnston (6469m) as the world’s deepest shipwreck.
        Good to hear that the ship is far too deep to be broken up by illegal scrappers. Same with the two Midway carriers they discovered.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >This is the Limiting Factor’s final wreck finding expedition
        Hell of a way to finish up strong.
        Bravo Zulu!

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >ship named after a Medal of Honor winner from a earlier battle goes on and wins two medal of honors resulting in several ships being named after it

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That is how ships reproduce.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Some people don't have any metal of honors and he has like 3? Just seems selfish

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >ship named after a Medal of Honor winner
      Seaman Roberts received the Navy Cross. So did Doris Miller.
      Getting a MoH in the Navy Dept as an enlisted man only really began in WWII. No enlisted Marine had ever received a MoH until WWII.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Hey, please have a nice day. It would remove the troony thought out of your mind

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Imagine having 4 battleships, half a dozen heavy cruisers, and a dozen destroyers and being so cowardly to be run off by a couple destroyers.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >A large Japanese fleet has been contacted. They are fifteen miles away and headed in our direction. They are believed to have four battleships, eight cruisers, and a number of destroyers. >This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.
      Most heroic pre battle speech ever.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >We will do what damage we can.
        Shit like that amazes me. Sheer unrelenting fricking spite and courage in the face of unwinnable odds.

        God speed you crazy fricking bastards.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Better to go out fighting than run and get sunk anyway

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Sheer unrelenting fricking spite and courage
          Uvalde PD could learn a lesson or two.
          Run _to_ the sound of the guns.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          These frickers had to resort to 40mm at a point. they where literally within 40mm range and peppering the ship because the only rounds they had left for 3 or 5 inch guns were star shells that they also where firing.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The opening shot by the Americans in that battle was an Anti-Sub patrol plane dropping a pair of depth charges on a Japanese Battleship in the hopes that one of the charges would explode under the ship or land on some Japanese sailor's head.

          There were planes out of ammo where the pilots were firing their sidearms out of the plane in the hope that at least one Jap AA gunner would catch a bullet.

          The Escort Carriers were using their single piddly little 5 inch Cannon to try and engage in a gunnery duel with heavy cruisers.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >The Escort Carriers were using their single piddly little 5 inch Cannon to try and engage in a gunnery duel with heavy cruisers.
            This is the one that always gets me. The planes without ammo buzzing enemy warships makes is cool, the suicide charge of the destroyers brings tears to the eye, but this just defies description. I can't think of the words to accurately describe the feelings it gives me, to picture those slow-as-shit, thinly armored carriers trying to shoot back with 5 inch guns on exposed individual mounts.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Straight to Valhalla, bros.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It's actually a miracle that about half of the crews of Samuel B Roberts and Johnston fricking survived.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          it's also a testament to how high of a priority the United States placed life saving and crew recovery. In lots of sinkings, a large number, even a majority of the crew, made it off the vessel, but drowned anyway.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >it's also a testament to how high of a priority the United States placed life saving and crew recovery
            With the notable exception of the USS Indianapolis

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              that was the exception for a specific reason, though; they were under radio silence due to having just delivered the atom bombs to Tinian. The resulting backlash, however, illustrates the emphasis that was placed on crew recovery.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          it's also a testament to how high of a priority the United States placed life saving and crew recovery. In lots of sinkings, a large number, even a majority of the crew, made it off the vessel, but drowned anyway.

          More would have lived had the rescue crews had gotten their right coordinates, there was a frick up which meant all of them had to stay out for the night which led to a lot of the wounded and weakened ones dying

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I remember reading, not sure if it was in Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors or not, that the crew of one of the US ships that went down was in the water and realized that a Japanese column was steaming straight for them. They worried that the Japanese cruisers and destroyers were going to run them over, but as the column came by, Japanese sailors were equal parts cheering the Americans and shouting whatever English insults they knew while tossing anything buoyant they could spare overboard. This mostly consisted of food crates full of onions and vegetables that were inedible after soaking in the salt water, but still an odd bit of civility from the Japanese

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            It was, when the Johnson went down one of the Japanese Destroyers were so impressed about how she went down the way they would that they pulled up along side and manned the rails in honor, half cheering them and half insulting them, while throwing Tin cans and other odds and ends that would have been useless, including food that was captured American stuff. No one knows which crew it was or the fate or even the reason why they did it, why Johnson out of all ships they stood and saluted for but ultimately.

            Game understands Game.

            Johnson went out carrying out the edicts of everything that Imperial Japanese Culture thought the the epitome of honor and glory in fighting to the death. And so from one Tin can to another, the men of the Johnson were their equals.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >>A large Japanese fleet has been contacted. They are fifteen miles away and headed in our direction. They are believed to have four battleships, eight cruisers, and a number of destroyers. >This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.
        everyone wants to be gangster, till it's time to do gangster shit

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Not really a pre battle speech but the last radio contact of the ariete division during the second battle of el alamein.
        “Enemy tanks broke through south of ariete, with that ariete is surrounded, ariete will continue fighting”
        After that every single tank down to the last one, if you can call them that, pick related is pretty much what they had that day, fought to the bitter end.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It was more that Kurita was in no state to command after several days of sleep deprivation and having his own flagship shot out from under him the day before, having to swim to another ship to resume command. That in addition to the IJN having poor recognition guides led him to believe that the force of flat tops and escorts was Halsey’s fleet, which startled him even more than the surprise of running into American ships in that area. Not wanting to waste an opportunity to get the carriers while they were in range of the big guns, he ordered a general attack with each ship left to their own initiative, rather than taking the time to form up a battle line. This led to a communications breakdown as Kurita was increasingly unable to discern what was going on as the ships spread out more and more, and the hyper aggressive attack pressed by Taffy 3 further convinced Kurita that he had encountered a much larger and more capable formation. Already not one for suicidal banzai finales, he decided withdraw

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >the hyper aggressive attack pressed by Taffy 3 further convinced Kurita that he had encountered a much larger and more capable formation.
        I don't get why suicidally brave commanders always get mocked in popular media when in reality it is quite an effective military stratagem.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Probably because some nutcase out of officers school is deciding to send 200 conscripts to the bottom of the ocean for no good reason but to appease his own hubris. In some situations where there is no way out then you could understand, but some people just want to go out screaming and drag as many poor bastards as they can with them.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It's *very* situational. Look at bayonet charges: if done in exactly the right time and place, they wreck the opponent and were the decisive moment of battle for centuries. Done at the wrong time or place, they end up like so many of the IJA's banzai charges in the early going in the Pacific.

          Finding officers who can read the battlefield and discern the difference is like finding needles in a haystack, and training is no guarantee.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >It was more that Kurita was in no state to command after several days of sleep deprivation and having his own flagship shot out from under him the day before, having to swim to another ship to resume command
        This, along with the factor that the loss of Atago (his previous flagship) meant the loss of the premier radar testbed of the IJN by that point with PPI radar displays and the Japanese implementation of a CIC. And to probably most importantly, Kurita was low on fuel by the time he realized it wasn't 3rd Fleet and had no intent of suiciding himself into empty transports and smaller escort vessels. So he pulled back to save what was left of the IJN to fight another day.

        I don't think he really believed Ozawa's decoy would work (it wouldn't have against Spruance), so that plus sleep deprivation and battle fatigue led him to initially misidentify the force he ended up engaging.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        any game about surface fleet combat should incorporate officer and crew fatigue (including concussions and injuries) somehow, it has played a decisive role in most naval engagements

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Battlefleet Gothic Armada II has morale and crew health.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >It was more that Kurita was in no state to command after several days of sleep deprivation and having his own flagship shot out from under him the day before, having to swim to another ship to resume command
        This, along with the factor that the loss of Atago (his previous flagship) meant the loss of the premier radar testbed of the IJN by that point with PPI radar displays and the Japanese implementation of a CIC. And to probably most importantly, Kurita was low on fuel by the time he realized it wasn't 3rd Fleet and had no intent of suiciding himself into empty transports and smaller escort vessels. So he pulled back to save what was left of the IJN to fight another day.

        I don't think he really believed Ozawa's decoy would work (it wouldn't have against Spruance), so that plus sleep deprivation and battle fatigue led him to initially misidentify the force he ended up engaging.

        Kurita has recently become one of my favorite commanders to read about. The man was skilled and did not want to throw away lives for no reason, seemingly rare in Japanese commanders.
        The mistakes made at Leyte were understandable for all the reasons already described. Fatigue after being pulled from the water, losing Musashi, chaos when first encountering Taffy 3 and mistaking it as a main force, no word from Nishimura's Southern Force, belief that "Surely the main American force is coming any minute." With hindsight, he could have pushed his Center Force through Taffy 3 and to the landings, but should not judge performance with hindsight. Kurita survived the war and many other Japanese naval personnel did too because of his decision.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >A large Japanese fleet has been contacted. They are fifteen miles away and headed in our direction. They are believed to have four battleships, eight cruisers, and a number of destroyers. >This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.
      Most heroic pre battle speech ever.

      WWII era US naval targeting computers OP AF

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Ayykshually while destroyers had proper FC, DEs like Sammy B had nothing like that. They had basic rangefinders and thats mostly it, no advanced tech like fletchers.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          luckily Sammy B was fighting at point blank range and had no need for such things.
          But it's worth noting that the XO of the USS Fletcher basically invented modern CIC by parking himself in the Radar Room instead of the bridge.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >having 4 battleships
      Tbf 2 of those were actually pre-WW1 battlecruisers that had been completely obsolete since early 20s. Frick, even their modernizations were pretty bad.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Imagining having all of that then getting absolutely danced on by a handful of destroyers, destroyer escorts and planes loaded with illumination flares and machineguns.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    rip

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's great to see another member of Taffy 3 found, but honestly all I can think about is that I'm just glad that she's deep enough that scavengers aren't going to get their hands on her.

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    And deep enough that the oxygen content in the water won't obliterate the hill anytime soon

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Hey guys, thanks for remembering

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >USS Samuel B Roberts
    At 09:35, the order was given to abandon ship. She sank 30 minutes later, with 90 of her sailors.
    F May the Lord have Mercy on their Souls

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    That's amazing. Thr Last Stand of the Tim Can Sailors is a great book, I always wanted a high budget movie of this battle. We'll never get it though...

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Speaking of, Rip Hornfischer
      His books may not have been the absolute best, but they were good, accurate and easy to read

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Cool.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I hope they found or will find its brother.
    Samuel B Roberts had the glory of out Samurai-ing the Samurai, but pic related brought the thunder and the fury of dakka.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Johnston was found in 2019 and was the deepest known wreck. Until Samuel B. Roberts was found.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      > As the Japanese destroyer Yukikaze cruised slowly nearby, Robert Billie and several other crewmen saw her captain salute the sinking Johnston.
      I’m not crying you’re crying!

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Yukikaze
        Nanoda

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Thread theme

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Cute.

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Out of Taffy 3's brave charge, only USS Hoel remains to be found.
    I don't think any of the IJN wrecks have been found yet.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Gambier Bay hasn’t been located yet, while Chokai was found by the Petrel crew in 2019.

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This is the kind of shit that makes me want to commit a mass shooting man

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The Japs got their revenge, man.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah I know. The Japanese should have hired a good artist instead of the taiwanese hack that's been messing up most of the American ships

        Those are from Chinese devs, go ask /vg/

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I don't get the animu image for some reason, maybe you should delete your browser history

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Neither did I

        This is the kind of shit that makes me want to commit a mass shooting man

        >waaah this character I explicitly looked up showed up on the results !!
        Good. She is good. Admit to what you are.
        You love her.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I don't get the animu image for some reason, maybe you should delete your browser history

          You think it would bother me if I were a weeb you dumb fricks?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            if you weren't a weeb it wouldn't have shown up in the images
            it didn't for me on my clean browser
            yours clearly had some reason to
            just admit to what you are- or that you are faking a screencap for attention
            a loss either way. leave this thread

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Post address let's solve this issue

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Pathetic.

                This guy was on the team that found Sammy B btw

                Cool guy.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        shit, i'm a huge fricking weeb and even i don't get the kancolle version to pop up

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah I know. The Japanese should have hired a good artist instead of the taiwanese hack that's been messing up most of the American ships

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        This guy was on the team that found Sammy B btw

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Surigao strait was less of a battle and more of a massacre

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Five out of six burger battleships present were pearl harbor veterans, that
            were severely damaged or actually sunk. I believe the proper term is "well deserved payback".

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Who’s the little psycho in front?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Shigure

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        This guy was on the team that found Sammy B btw

        guy's as old as my grandpa and this into kancolle, pretty damn based

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I wish I could find that image proving Kancolle has its roots pre-WW2 with nip ship-girl illustrations.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            kancolle is the logical conclusion of the fusion between shinto Kami and the fact that ships have legal personhood in maritime law (and unlike corporations, ships can go to jail, get arrested, and get executed.)
            (I don't care that this pic is Azur Lane)

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Gotchu senpai.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I wish I could find that image proving Kancolle has its roots pre-WW2 with nip ship-girl illustrations.

              Hell Americans did too I remember someone once linked the Iowa's official news letter that had her as a girl in a dress.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            One of the Kancolle girls even references an WW2 era shipgirl pic of her in the game. If i remember correctly, she also wears a colored hairpin or ribbon the girl in the old picture wears.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        What's with the blank space? Is he ticking off wrecks found?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          That and I think the gamby nendo was in the submersible itself for luck.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >even the little Gamby Figure that rode down in the submersible did not bring us the luck we needed

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Bay is memetastic for her ability to get lost, I think it actually gave worse luck to have her aboard

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              She even wandered into the wrong game once or twice

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            super based

            This is the kind of shit that makes me want to commit a mass shooting man

            I hope you die of monkeypox homosexual

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Totally organic. Google feeds image results based on recent previous searches. I got 2 pics of the historical one and 2 of the more recent frigate with the same query and I used to play Kancolle, meaning I would be even more likely to get anime girls. Besides she a good girl and you're a gay.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      fricking moeBlack folk man

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Anime website

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    DD's and DE's: Chihuahuas that fought like Pit Bulls.

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Cut from a different cloth man, between it, the Johnston, and Piorun its my theory the smaller the ship the more insane the crew is. In other words the Chihuahua effect also applies to warships

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Where is Task Force Thirty Four? The world wonders.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      repeat WHERE

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      frick, had I been there all my wage would have gone towards film and camera equipment

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        (a pretty sensible investment all things considered)

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      repeat WHERE

      WHERE IS LEE?

      SEND LEE!

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      From a thread speculating on what would happen if Halsey was born Japanese

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Noice. Personal opinion, Japanese Halsey was basically Tamon Yamaguchi. Hyper aggressive to a fault. Only difference is Yamaguchi never had the opportunity for a solo command of a carrier group.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        lel
        >Halsey-san, where the frickeru are ru? Turkey trots to water

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Found in 6850m of water
    >Deepest wreck ever identified
    Shit that's deep as frick

    Also surprising how intact it still is, nearly upright as well with the turrets still on the hull, fricking incredible

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      685 bars of pressure, that's plenty but a submersible can be engineered to take that, it's (perhaps unsurprisingly) about how much metal you put around the optimized shape.

      Pic related, some of these pipes can take 6000 bar before deforming in a way that the metal does not return to its original shape (yield strenght).

      https://www.materials.sandvik/en/products/tube-pipe-fittings-and-flanges/tubular-products/high-pressure-tubes/

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    literally who??

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      dingy little destroyer escort who successfully fought off a much larger Japanese force, including Yamato, to protect marine landings in the battle of the Philippines
      Certified David and Goliath moment

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        ok pretty based, may she and her crew rest in peace

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Roberts had moved so close that the enemy guns could not depress enough to hit her and when in torpedo range, Roberts launched three Mark 15 torpedoes, with one blowing off Chōkai's stern. Roberts fought with the Japanese ships for a further hour, firing more than six hundred 5 in (127 mm) shells, and while maneuvering at very close range, hitting Chōkai's superstructure with her 40 mm and 20 mm anti-aircraft guns.[6][7] At 08:51, the Japanese landed two hits, the second of which damaged the aft 5 in (127 mm) gun. This damaged gun suffered a breech explosion shortly thereafter which killed and wounded several crew members. With her remaining 5 in (127 mm) gun, Roberts set the bridge of the heavy cruiser Chikuma on fire and destroyed the Number Three gun turret. Roberts was then hit by three 14 in (356 mm) shells from the battleship Kongō, which tore a hole 40 ft (12 m) long and 10 ft (3 m) wide in the port side of her aft engine room.

      >At 09:35, the order was given to abandon ship. She sank 30 minutes later, with 90 of her sailors.

      >After the battle, Samuel B. Roberts received the appellation "the destroyer escort that was metal as frick."

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Samuel_B._Roberts_%28DE-413%29

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Roberts had moved so close that the enemy guns could not depress enough to hit her
        MANLETS RISE UP!

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Just imagining the massive hunk of steel descending for an extended amount of time through the pitch black waters to never see the light again kinda gives me goosebumps

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'm imagining putting your ear below water being able to hear gauges popping from pressure and all manner of twisted metal flapping for many minutes as the ship descends into the unfathomable abyss

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It would have been a very violent trip to the bottom, I pray no one was still alive to experience it.

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    > This is Mount 52, the 5”/38 gun mount on the after deck of USS Samuel B. Roberts. A brave man died here, GM3c Paul Henry Carr. Those who know who Carr was and what he did will appreciate what they see here. If you don’t, research the name and learn about a true hero.

    >I posted this photo for the family of Petty Officer Carr, but also to help ensure that his name will never be forgotten.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Gunner's Mate Third Class Paul H. Carr was in charge of the aft 5 in (127 mm) gun mount, which had fired nearly all of its 325 stored rounds in 35 minutes before a breech explosion. Carr was found dying at his station from a severe intestinal wound, begging for help to load the last round he was holding into the breech. For his actions, he was posthumously awarded a Silver Star, and the guided-missile frigate Carr was later named after him.

      The guy was still loading the 5" gun with his intestines pouring out. 100% badass worthy of Valhalla.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Sammy IS CUTE CUTTTEEEE!!!!!

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        why does she not wear panties though

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          She got too excited after changing out of her swim suit.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        She got too excited after changing out of her swim suit.

        >Her mascot thing is the whale she rammed during her shakedown cruise

        >Her cap ribbon is her single battle star

        WTF I love KanColle now.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The cap ribbon has her radio call sign signal flags as well
          Johnston has then too on her ribbons

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Kancolle is remarkably thoughtful about shipgirl design. Azur Lane punts that, but still retains the historical references in dialogue lines (like AL Taiho's fixation on fire motifs).

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This image puts "breech explosion" in perspective. Holy frick.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Gunner's Mate Third Class Paul H. Carr was in charge of the aft 5 in (127 mm) gun mount, which had fired nearly all of its 325 stored rounds in 35 minutes before a breech explosion. Carr was found dying at his station from a severe intestinal wound, begging for help to load the last round he was holding into the breech. For his actions, he was posthumously awarded a Silver Star, and the guided-missile frigate Carr was later named after him.

      The guy was still loading the 5" gun with his intestines pouring out. 100% badass worthy of Valhalla.

      Reminds me of this guy:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cornwell
      I have a German book about the battle of Jutland from the late 30s, and even there, with the nazis pretty much in control of what was published, the book still gives you two pages full of utter respect for the man, finishing with the statement that he died as a gallant warrior for his country.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Chester had received a total of 18 hits, but partial hull armour meant that the interior of the ship suffered little serious damage and the ship itself was never in peril of sinking. Nevertheless, the situation on deck was dire. Many of the gun crews had lost lower limbs due to splinters passing under the gun shields. British ships reported passing the Chester to cheers from limbless wounded gun crew laid out on her deck and smoking cigarettes, only to hear that the same crewmen had died a few hours later from blood loss and shock.

        this part always gets me.

        I do wonder if Cornwell was the reason the Royal Navy kept boy sailors/ship's boys around during and after WW2

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Based Knight of Dakka, the man who died trying to load another round in after he blew his gun trying to blow through all the ammo.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >GM3c Paul Henry Carr
      >Paul Carr and his crew fired over 300 rounds during the battle off Samar, scoring at close range and severely damaging a Japanese heavy cruiser, knocking out an &inch turret, demolishing its bridge and starting fires aft.

      >His crew had inspired every man on the ship, a ship that was now invery grave danger of sinking. The massive blows by the Japanese had taken their toll. The Sammy B. was without power, compressed air, hydraulics or communications. The ship was a floating cripple and taking on water fast through one of the gaping holes left by a 14-inch shell from the Japanese battleship Kongo.

      >Knowing the hazards involved, Carr’s close-knit crew loaded, rammed and fired six charges by hand, without the safety device of the gas-ejection system. In attempting to fire a seventh round, the powder charge “cooked off” before the breech was closed, wrecking the gun and killing or wounding all but three men in the gunhouse.

      >After the order to abandon ship had been given, one petty officer entered the gun mount to find Paul Carr, literally torn open from neck to thigh, holding a 54-pound projectile, trying, unassisted, to load and ram the only shell available. Carr begged the petty officer to help him get off the last round, but the man, seeing the gun had been destroyed and its breech rendered an unrecognizable mass of twisted steel, took the projectile from the gunner’s hands.

      >Helping one of the other wounded men to the main deck, the petty officer returned to find Carr again attempting, although horribly wounded, to place the projectile on the loading tray of the inoperable gun. A few minutes later Paul Henry Carr was dead. George Bray and Samuel Blue were among the lucky ones. They had survived.

      Wow.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Holy good Christ may he reign with Saint Peter.

        Though he lay dying, he refused to drop his sword. He wanted to make those zipperheads pay.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Tell me, what were their names? Did you have a friend on the good Sammy B?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >GM3c Paul Henry Carr
      >Paul Carr and his crew fired over 300 rounds during the battle off Samar, scoring at close range and severely damaging a Japanese heavy cruiser, knocking out an &inch turret, demolishing its bridge and starting fires aft.

      >His crew had inspired every man on the ship, a ship that was now invery grave danger of sinking. The massive blows by the Japanese had taken their toll. The Sammy B. was without power, compressed air, hydraulics or communications. The ship was a floating cripple and taking on water fast through one of the gaping holes left by a 14-inch shell from the Japanese battleship Kongo.

      >Knowing the hazards involved, Carr’s close-knit crew loaded, rammed and fired six charges by hand, without the safety device of the gas-ejection system. In attempting to fire a seventh round, the powder charge “cooked off” before the breech was closed, wrecking the gun and killing or wounding all but three men in the gunhouse.

      >After the order to abandon ship had been given, one petty officer entered the gun mount to find Paul Carr, literally torn open from neck to thigh, holding a 54-pound projectile, trying, unassisted, to load and ram the only shell available. Carr begged the petty officer to help him get off the last round, but the man, seeing the gun had been destroyed and its breech rendered an unrecognizable mass of twisted steel, took the projectile from the gunner’s hands.

      >Helping one of the other wounded men to the main deck, the petty officer returned to find Carr again attempting, although horribly wounded, to place the projectile on the loading tray of the inoperable gun. A few minutes later Paul Henry Carr was dead. George Bray and Samuel Blue were among the lucky ones. They had survived.

      Wow.

      I knew of that gun crew's actions but never knew his name.

      Imagine having 4 battleships, half a dozen heavy cruisers, and a dozen destroyers and being so cowardly to be run off by a couple destroyers.

      >A large Japanese fleet has been contacted. They are fifteen miles away and headed in our direction. They are believed to have four battleships, eight cruisers, and a number of destroyers. >This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.
      Most heroic pre battle speech ever.

      I'm glad these expeditions are picking back up again. Finding wrecks is always fascinating.

      RIP. At least the entirety of the ship's company is together.
      I got emotional of the video when the HMS Hood was found and they brought Ted Briggs, her last survivor, aboard the research vessel to view live video.

      [...]
      The battle is very interesting. The Americans and Japanese both made some big mistakes, but in the end it was the Japanese who failed to capitalize on their surprise.

      Not sure when these were made but its the most detailed yet concise account of the battle I know of.

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >18 inch shells from a battleship raining down on you
    >be flattop

    I wonder what they were thinking at that point.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Get me closer, I want to hit them with everything, including my fists

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      “We’re almost in 40mm range”

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Probably brainstorming ways to turn aviation fuel into a projectile to shoot and praying one of their planes is the one to sink the bastard attacking.

      Kancolle is remarkably thoughtful about shipgirl design. Azur Lane punts that, but still retains the historical references in dialogue lines (like AL Taiho's fixation on fire motifs).

      >Azur Lane punts that
      It's a bit more accurate to say that historical references aren't a focus. There's still some added in from time to time, but time is shifting focus even harder onto breasts.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >It's a bit more accurate to say that historical references aren't a focus. There's still some added in from time to time, but time is shifting focus even harder onto breasts.
        plot-wise they're also leaning heavily into a three-way timeshifting battle that barely makes sense since they figured out that their main market was japan, who were the baddies in the early version of the game.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >they figured out that their main market was japan
          Frick, that makes the fact it always gets massively wrecked by KC when it comes comiket circles even more hilarious.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Eh, to be fair people always think comiket numbers matters a lot more than they really do. I guess franchises wars do that. At the end of the day, it's just the money they get that matters and I would say gachashit always have the edge there. Also some fanartists just stick to the most popular franchises when they want to get quick bucks or at least that's what I remember reading it some years ago from a guy I was following. He complained that he wanted to make his own original doujin but it would sell like shit if it wasn't Fate, KC, Touhou.

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    0/10 bait, see me after class anon

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >We unfortunately did not dive on Taiho and Shokaku, as we originally planned.
      That's a shame. Only 2 Japanese fleet carriers wrecks have been discovered, the other 7 still remain on the bottom. Honestly, it would have been cool for some IJN vessels to have been saved at the end of the war for museum ships instead of being scrapped or sent to the bottom.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It's a shame they scrapped Houshou, they could have preserved the first aircraft carrier as a museum ship. She wasn't even damaged.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >gets
          First purpose built one anyway. I think it was the British that first converted one of their ships to a carrier

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Yep. HMS Argus, actually entered service before the end of WWI, if you can believe it. They also almost beat the Japs to the first purpose-built aircraft carrier, but Hermes' launch and commission was delayed by design revisions, and so she was a couple years behind Houshou.

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Do you think any of the crew would still be alive? Maybe if the food storage remained airtight, they could have died of old age.

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Here lies Samuel B. Roberts: world's baddest DE.

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Sweet, perfect timing on the release of this doujins translation

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      If this is group/rape I WILL kill you

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        it is and more lol

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Give the holy numbers

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >asking for resized images
            https://exhentai.org/g/2255753/1376aceaa6/

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >https://exhentai.org/g/2255753/1376aceaa6/
              >female: ahegao, big areolae, big breasts, birth, blowjob, collar, drugs, garter belt, gloves, human cattle, impregnation, inflation, lactation, nakadashi, paizuri, pregnant, rape, snuff, stockings, twintails, very long hair
              looks like that one's going in the favorites.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I wonder how deep gambier bay is going to be

                Jesus christ how horrifying

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You fricking people I swear to god

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous
              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                oh dear

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Yukari

      If this is group/rape I WILL kill you

      it is and more lol

      Give the holy numbers

      that doujin is cursed far beyond the typical fricked up doujin

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The commanding officer, Copeland, announced "We're making a torpedo run. The outcome is doubtful, but we will do our duty."

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >"We're making a torpedo run. The outcome is doubtful, but we will do our duty."
      Krishna smiles upon such men

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >"We're making a torpedo run. The outcome is doubtful, but we will do our duty."
      Krishna smiles upon such men

      A reminder that compared to the 12 or so Torpedoes that the Destroyers had Roberts only had 3 Torpedoes, three shots and then they were left with some 5 inch guns and 40mms.

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Good it's so deep down the Chinese can't scavenge the pre nuclear steel.

  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    > The crew of Pressure Drop has found out about my obsession with KanColle. I found this posted near our schedule board tonight (I didn’t post it).

    Kek

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Why aren't those splashes coloured?

  39. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    All the gays that died aboard, fighting for the creation of israel, are surely in Hell.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The only person going to hell is you since you believe in it so much.

      So what did they dive on then?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >So what did they dive on then?
        The wreck this thread is about?

  40. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Bumping with video of the wreck, including Carr’s Mount 52:

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >ammo still in the 40mm feed lips
      >oerlikon drum still mounted
      she went down swingin’

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Holy shit you're right.

  41. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Zeco does it for free

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        nice

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Ladies and gentlemen: the power of shipgirl autism.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Adorable

  42. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    F

  43. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    BASED naval warfare history autists itt, God bless you /k/omrades for making a blessed thread. I had heard something about the last stand of the tin can sailors but I didn't know the details.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That entire campaign is likely the last great naval battle the world will ever see, unless we somehow go back to the stone age and start all over again.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      OP here, glad people love the Sammy B and are as excited about this discovery as I am. I grew up fascinated by the discoveries of WWII wrecks by Robert Ballard and others, and I’ve been thrilled to see so many legendary ships documented between 2017 and now. I love that the workhorses of the conflict, “tin cans” like Roberts and Johnston, are now receiving the attention they deserve and that people like the Limiting Factor crew have put the time, money and effort into finding and documenting their final resting places.

      Thanks for a great thread guys. Carry on!

  44. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Nice, good to see another one of the Samar crew get found at last. Shame she had to steal the Johnston's depth record, but such is life.

    Who knows, maybe they'll find Kumano's bow next.

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