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Midway-class aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CVB-43) port quarter view, Feb 24, 1949
John C. Butler class destroyer escort USS Silverstein (DE-534) and Balao-class submarine USS Stickleback( SS-415) collide 19 miles out from Barbers Point, Oahu Hawaii
On 28 May 1958, Stickleback was participating in an antisubmarine warfare exercise with the destroyer escort USS Silverstein and a torpedo retriever in the Hawaiian area. The exercises continued into the afternoon of the next day when the submarine completed a simulated torpedo run on Silverstein. As Stickleback was going to a safe depth, she lost power and broached approximately 200 yards (180 m) ahead of the destroyer escort. Silverstein backed full and put her rudder hard left in an effort to avoid a collision but holed the submarine on her port side.
Stickleback's crew was removed by the torpedo retriever and combined efforts were made by Silverstein, Sabalo, Sturtevant, and Greenlet, to save the stricken submarine. The rescue ships put lines around her, but compartment after compartment flooded and, at 18:57 on 29 May 1958, Stickleback sank in 1,800 fathoms (3,300 m) of water.
Midway-class aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CVB-43) port quarter view, Feb 24, 1949
John C. Butler class destroyer escort USS Silverstein (DE-534) and Balao-class submarine USS Stickleback( SS-415) collide 19 miles out from Barbers Point, Oahu Hawaii
On 28 May 1958, Stickleback was participating in an antisubmarine warfare exercise with the destroyer escort USS Silverstein and a torpedo retriever in the Hawaiian area. The exercises continued into the afternoon of the next day when the submarine completed a simulated torpedo run on Silverstein. As Stickleback was going to a safe depth, she lost power and broached approximately 200 yards (180 m) ahead of the destroyer escort. Silverstein backed full and put her rudder hard left in an effort to avoid a collision but holed the submarine on her port side.
Stickleback's crew was removed by the torpedo retriever and combined efforts were made by Silverstein, Sabalo, Sturtevant, and Greenlet, to save the stricken submarine. The rescue ships put lines around her, but compartment after compartment flooded and, at 18:57 on 29 May 1958, Stickleback sank in 1,800 fathoms (3,300 m) of water.
