GOOD NAVAL HISTORY NEWS EVERYONE 

"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390) 02/12/2019 at 16:45 • Filed to: USS Hornet

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HORNET CV-8 HAS BEEN FOUND AT LAST!! The last sister of USS Enterprise has been discovered decades after the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands!! Huzzah!!

The carrier famous for the Doolittle Raid, and only commissioned in service for just over a year.

An International Harvester survived the sinking too!

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

This is such a momentous occasion! Yorktown was sunk at Midway in 1942, and Enterprise was sadly scrapped in 1960. With Hornet’s discovery, the story of the Yorktown class carriers can finally close.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 02/12/2019 at 16:50

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The Do Little raid is what the French military called all their offensives in WWII

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 02/12/2019 at 16:51

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bets on if that tractor would start up after being recovered?

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 02/12/2019 at 16:52

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Man that was a great looking ship...

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/12/2019 at 16:54

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K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 02/12/2019 at 16:54

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$5 with a can of starter fluid

Maxima Speed > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/12/2019 at 16:55

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RIP!!

Maxima Speed > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 02/12/2019 at 16:56

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Guaranteed 

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 02/12/2019 at 16:57

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Still is! She’s sitting up right and intact! 

M.T. Blake > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 02/12/2019 at 17:11

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Surprisingly excellent condition!

cletus44 aka Clayton Seams > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 02/12/2019 at 17:14

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This is so cool. Where did you find all the pictures?

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > cletus44 aka Clayton Seams 02/12/2019 at 17:19

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The first one was a google image search. The next two can easily be found via navsource.org and the last two are from msnbc and npr. I love this kinda stuff!

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > M.T. Blake 02/12/2019 at 17:21

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Just like Bismarck and Sydney!

cletus44 aka Clayton Seams > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 02/12/2019 at 17:24

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Me too! 

Urambo Tauro > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 02/12/2019 at 17:27

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Wow, great find! I wonder what happens next. The Wikipedia page states that the captain was the “last man on board” to abandon ship. Did everyone escape, or was he just the last living person to get out of there? I’m curious as to whether the ship is considered a war grave or not .

ttyymmnn > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 02/12/2019 at 18:09

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She’s m ore than 17,000 feet down. That’s more than three miles. Damn, the Pacific is deep.

daender > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 02/12/2019 at 19:03

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That’s impressively intact ! It helps it was shot full of holes and torpedoed in an effort to scuttle, so it didn’t implode at that depth.  

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > cletus44 aka Clayton Seams 02/12/2019 at 19:22

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I did not know that!

bubblestheturtle > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 02/12/2019 at 19:35

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The tug is sitting like they just parked it. The cooling hose( ?) is still red with, what appears to be electrical tape.

facw > Urambo Tauro 02/12/2019 at 20:34

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140 men died on the Hornet. It was still afloat when the Japanese ended their assault though so an orderly evacuation of survivors was possible. The US Navy tried and failed to scuttle the ship, and left when Japanese ships arrived. The Japanese then finished it off.

facw > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 02/12/2019 at 20:37

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Wonder if funding for Paul Allen’s lost ships project will dry up now that he’s died.

His rocket company announced big cuts last month, as I assume his heirs weren’t as keen to dump billions into what was something of a vanity project: Stratolaunch axes launch vehicle and rocket engine projects

f86sabre > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 02/12/2019 at 21:52

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Is that a fireman’s jacket jammed in the door?

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > f86sabre 02/12/2019 at 22:34

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Holy crap! They really don’t make things like they use to.