Exploring The USS LIONFISH Submarine And Soviet Missile Carrier HIDDENSEE At Battleship Cove!
Come along with us to explore the USS Lionfish submarine and the Soviet Missile Carrier Hiddensee at Battleship Cove!!
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00:00Welcome back to another exciting episode today we're going to explore the USS
00:24Lionfish and take a look at the Soviet ship Hidden Sea at least I think that's
00:29how you pronounce it. As a reminder we are still in Battleship Cove in
00:34Massachusetts and they even have the Hidden Sea which is a Soviet vessel you
00:42can't get on it but you can view it and kind of see the different types of
00:47munitions. This was originally commissioned by the East German Navy and
00:52was a Tarantula class Corvette at least again I think that's how you pronounce
00:58it and it was built at the Petrovsky shipyard in 1984 which was located near
01:06the former Soviet or Russian city of Leningrad which is now known as
01:13Saint-Petersburg. An example of a Soviet built missile Corvette Hidden Sea was
01:20designed to oppose any naval threat to the East German coast and to fulfill
01:26this mission it carried long-range sticks anti-ship missiles and an array
01:32of defensive weapons designed to ensure her own survival. Following the
01:37reunification of Germany the Hidden Sea served with the Federal German Navy
01:43until she was decommissioned in April of 1991. Shortly thereafter she was actually
01:50reactivated and transferred to the US Navy which she continued as a research
01:56vessel until April of 1996 where she later joined the Battleship Cove fleet
02:03in Fall River on June 14th 1997. Now this is the USS Lionfish submarine
02:13there's a lot of repairs that need to be made as you see but we can still explore
02:18a little bit underneath as well. At the time we were visiting they were doing
02:24some deck repair as you can see here but it is kind of neat you can see
02:29what's underneath. But to tell you a little more about this vessel here is
02:35Davis to tell you all the ins and outs and its history and so much more. USS
02:43Lionfish SS-298 is a Belal class submarine and was the only ship of the
02:47United States Navy named for the Lionfish a Scorpenoid fish found in the
02:51West Indies and the tropical Pacific. After completing her shakedown cruise
02:56off New England she began her first war patrol in Japanese waters on April 1st
03:001945. Ten days later she dodged two torpedoes fired by a Japanese submarine
03:06and on May 1st destroyed a Japanese schooner with her deck gun. After a
03:11rendezvous with the submarine USS Ray she transported B-29 survivors to Saipan
03:16and then made her way to Midway Island for replenishment. On June 2nd 1945 she
03:22started her second war patrol and on July 10th fired torpedoes at a surface
03:26Japanese submarine after which Lionfish's crew heard explosions and observed smoke
03:31through their periscope. She subsequently fired on two more Japanese
03:35submarines and ended her second and last war patrol performing lifeguard duty the
03:39rescue of downed flyers off the coast of Japan. When hostilities ended on August
03:4415th 1945 she headed for San Francisco and was decommissioned at Mare Island
03:50Navy Yard on January 16th 1946. Lionfish was recommissioned on January 31st 1951
03:58and headed for the East Coast for training cruises. After participating in
04:02NATO exercises and a Mediterranean cruise she returned to the East Coast
04:06and was decommissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on December 15th 1953. In 1960
04:13the submarine was called to duty again this time serving as a reserve training
04:18submarine at Providence Rhode Island. In 1971 she was stricken from the Navy
04:23Register and in 1973 she was unveiled for permanent display as a memorial at
04:28Battleship Cove where she has evolved into one of the museum's most popular
04:32exhibits and a monument to all submariners.
06:13Well thank you Davis for giving us such great information and we hope to see you
06:42back here on our future adventures and as always have a great day