Wrecks of Crossroads - The Smaller and Oft-Forgotten Ships
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- When one thinks about the wrecks of Operation Crossroads, the first thought is often the big ships. Saratoga, Nagato, Arkansas. The destroyers or submarines or transports are often forgotten in the shuffle. Sure, ships like Anderson or Lamson are popular diving attractions...but nowhere near the same extent as the big girls.
This video will look at those smaller ships and tell their stories, as well.
My voice may or may not be messed up, though, as I am still recovering from the wisdom tooth being yanked out.
Towards the end of the war, my Dad was a new radar electronics technician. During Crossroads, they evaluated the target ships before the blasts , and then were
sent back to the ships afterwards, to see what still worked and what did not. He still had his ID and some other things from the assignment.
Although the New York is in the next video, if you want to see what she looks like, her sister the Texas is a museum ship. Currently she is undergoing a long needed repair in Galveston, Tx. Exactly where her new home will be is currently unknown.
They should put Texas in corpus with the Lexington, may generate a lot more revenue being in a popular Texas town for vacation
I suggest everyone look up USS Skates experience at Crossroads. She was the closest ship to the hypocenter of shot able, which detonated 500 feet above her stern. She sat aft of Nevada, the actual bullseye. After 2 days men boarded the Skate and found all systems required for getting underway to be intact. Her diesels started. Props turned. She was moved into position for shot baker under her own power. She would then go on to survive shot baker as well. Overall, it doesn't get any tougher than a submarine. Fact. Additionally, the reason Pilotfishes stern looks so bad is because that isn't pressure hull, that's the turtle back superstructure above the stern torpedo tubes. Here at the Cod that steel is only about 1/4" thick. Sheet metal. Her pressure hull would be 1" thick there and I bet it is unblemished.
Good luck with the wisdom teeth. I had, for a graduation 🎓 present in June, 1982, my first wisdom teeth removed. I got the second set taken out a week before Christmas 🎄 of 1982. Eat plenty of ice cream, jasmine or basmati rice, and mashed potatoes! 😅
A great video on the smaller wrecks in Bikini. In particular, that shot of the sunken Anderson's bridge seemingly alight struck me as eerie.
Thanks for covering a fascinating and way to underdiscussed chapter of history. And good luck with the wisdom tooth. I had to have two taken out at one time several years ago. And that was a few days before Thanksgiving of that year!
Although not an American ship, I dont think I've heard about him so far, but the German cruiser Prinz Eugen was there also I believe.
I stand corrected, I somehow happened upon your videos out of order, my mistake. But I'll leave the comment up for traction and the algorithm.
I understand the reason behind using the ships for the test, especially to see how they would handle it. But it just a shame they couldn't be saved some of them before they got used.
The biggest shame is Saratoga. She should have been preserved as a museum.
Thanks for this 👍
I hope you are still looking to cover the American CVs. They are all in incredible condition!
I imagine because the dry dock is pretty wide if it's slaying on its side it's probably a lot closer to the surface than most of the ships
Thanks
Great Video! :)
Is there tiny pieces of the LSM-60 left since I heard from a documentary that pieces fell on the deck of a transport in the test.
MY DAD WAS THERE ON THE USS GARCIA, SHE WAS A LSD, HE NEVER SPOKE MUCH ABOUT IT, THE SHIP WAS A SUPPORT SHIP
Can you do some battle of the Atlantic ship wrecks?
But the Carlisle wreck is the garden spot of Able/Baker! How could people be so churlish as to neglect it!
How did they submerge the subs w/o crew onboard?
Very interesting.
To your knowledge, have any of the Bikini wrecks suffered explosions of ordinance still aboard? My understanding is that most or all of the warships were fully armed and fueled with weapons "staged" as if to be loaded aboard aircraft (Saratoga and Independence) or in exposed "ready service" lockers near Anti-Aircraft weapons.
Not that I’m aware of, though the risk remains. While most of the ships weren’t fully loaded, the explosives aboard *were* live weapons for purposes of testing how they’d react to the bomb(s).
And the older they get, the less stable they get.
@@skyneahistory2306 That is the problem with many different types of high explosives and even black powder, as it gets older it undergoes chemical changes that often (not always) makes it more unstable. Sea water intrusion can render inert most powder charges including black powder and the bagged and cased propellant charges for the major caliber guns.
I think that the major risks are where you point out ... cased and / or sealed bursting charges in torpedo warheads and major caliber shells.
For those who think that time by now may have rendered most of these explosives inert, let me point out that throughout Europe and Asia, LIVE ordinance is still being found from WWI and WWII. Here in the 'States live ordinance dating back to the American Civil War has been found and had to be either rendered inert or detonated by Army Explosive Ordinance guys over the last 30 or 40 years.
I've also heard of WWII era live shells being found on or around the Hawaiian Islands not long ago, and we all know how long ago Pearl Harbor happened.
Unexploded ordinance from any era is not a joke guys. I asked my initial question simply because I had not heard of ordinance detonating in the Bikini wrecks. I know it's there and things going *BOOM!* could still happen especially if the fusing mechanism (always touchy) is disturbed by ship's structure collapsing on it.
you'll be wasting time looking for Nevada there; the orange "bull's eye" ship was sunk off hawaii by navy torpedo planes in 1948(?) after being towed back to Pearl for a largely failed de-con effort, if my memory's correct- a naval institute press article 😮
Just to comment although these tests were to test how the ships would stand up to a nuke ,any human within five miles of the blast was dead
Hey I found videos of some of these ships right after the Operation Crossroads tests in this video about the operation on RUclips it shows the battleship and airccraft carrier you talk about up close. I am not sure you knew about this so I thought you would find it interesting. Start around the 14:30 mark and go from there. ruclips.net/video/ADD8_2KO5Bk/видео.html
I find the entire video interesting myself but that is where the content I am referring to specifically starts at
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Why?
@@ostrich67 Ships.
@@Commander_Koykethe USA 🇺🇸 got bored after WWII. We missed blowing shit up!
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