DSK wrote:
Now, when did a U-boat ever patrol Long Island Sound, much less get
sunk there? How about the Potomac? And that IJN sub shelling Seattle?
You've come clean on one blooper, now you've still got some more
'splainin t'do.

On the 14th of January at 0448, for one. Just off Montauk Point. At 008:35
he fired his first torpedos, sinking the Norness, Captain Harold Hansen.
Without coastal charts, Captain Hardegen proceeded past Rockaway Beach and
into the Ambrose Channel. At 0140 on the 15th, while almost aground on
Long Beach,
he sank the Coimbra, 422', carrying 80,000 barrels of oil. He was attacked
the next day by bombers, but escaped.














DSK

JAXAshby wrote:

granted FII is is south of LIS.

" The USS San Diego left the water of the Pacific Ocean and entered
the Atlantic Ocean via the Panama Canal for the first time during
July 1917. She served in the Atlantic as a convoy escort, at one
time stopping at the port in La Croisie, France. After removal of
some of her 6-inch guns in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the San Diego
steams to New York to meet up with a transatlantic convoy. At 11:05
a.m. most the crew of the San Diego felt a dull thud which
originated from the port side engine room. The crew that worked in
this area must have experienced a large explosion as bulkheads were
smashed in. The ocean soon followed and within 20 minutes the USS
San Diego gently rolled over and was gone, along with six of her
crew. It is amazing that 1,177 of the ship's crew and officers
were able to abandon ship in a such a short time. The German
submarine U.156 is credited with sinking the USS San Diego. The
submarine laid mines in the area where the cruiser was lost.
Unfortunately we will never know the details of the U.156
operations, as the submarine was sunk on her return voyage after
entering a mine field. The USS San Diego today lies upside down
about eleven miles southeast of
Fire Island inlet, Long Island, New York at Loran 26543.4 43693.2 in
115 feet of sea water. "