The Wreck of USS Quincy - First Loss of Ironbottom Sound

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USS Quincy. The first ship lost off Guadalcanal, in what would become known as Ironbottom Sound. If only be a little while, compared to a wreck I covered before, USS Vincennes.
Quincy was a fighter. Her turrets are still trained out, where she was engaging the Japanese. The ship went down doing the best she could against impossible odds. And the wreck does reflect this, with a lot of battle damage.
Damage that was clear, even 32 years ago when Robert Ballard first discovered her.
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@scottbradleyshenberger4537 Ай бұрын

My great uncle was lost on the quincy.thank you for posting

@jamesvalenti9288 Ай бұрын

My great grandfather was lost on the Quincy. Thanks for uploading.

@richdandrea9413 Ай бұрын

gratitude and thanks to folks like Ballard, Paul Allen et al..and content providers such as you Sky, for their intrepid efforts to rediscover and honor these great ships from a horrific war...hoping that the memory of these brave souls and their efforts never be forgotten..

@andrewmontgomery5621 Ай бұрын

I actually got a book on this called "The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal".

@ericvadekro8334 Ай бұрын

Me too… great read

@Ccccccccccsssssssssss Ай бұрын

Me too! Great book

@byronrudrow7938 Ай бұрын

I have both the book and documentary. Great history!

@popculturerocks Ай бұрын

Great book. I have it.

@colonel-h2b Ай бұрын

Check out Neptune Inferno, by James Hornfischer!

@seaboardsystemproductions9714 Ай бұрын

Excellent video Skynea I love these videos have a great day!!

@jeffblacky Ай бұрын

Crunch … my grand uncle heard the sea battle from the Canal as a young marine Gun flashes

@Alobo075 Ай бұрын

US cruisers - "The Front Fell Off....."

@jimwolaver9375 Ай бұрын

The "not sure what that is" is probably a steel fender to protect the screws when the ship approaches a pier. The "opening of some sort" is a closed chock through which a line is passed to make a ship fast to a mooring.

@jehb8945 Ай бұрын

I have Robert Ballard's book on this and from the local video rental place my dad and I watched the documentary I vividly remember the section on the Quincy or Ballard pointed out that the Japanese took lots of shots into the bridge People forget that the Battle of Guadalcanal reverted back to surface ships after both sides' carrier fleets were decimated buy Coral Sea and Midway add the Japanese initially had a big advantage over the United States the best night optics and the infamous long Lance torpedo Ultimately what helped the United States Navy win was radar when it worked and the capital ships we sent we're better than the rebuilt Japanese battle cruisers However for a while whoever controlled Guadalcanal was up in the air and a different decision here and there could have changed the outcome in the favor of the Japanese

@alephalon7849 Ай бұрын

It would be nice if an expedition revisited Quincy and the other wrecks in Iron Bottom Sound within the next few years to see how they are...

@richardcline1337 Ай бұрын

It is my understanding that some lowlife scum has been salvaging these ships for their metal even though they are designated as war graves. Some cultures have absolutely NO morals of any kind!!

@patmx5 14 күн бұрын

I remember reading and being horribly fascinated by the book "Savo: The Incredible Naval Debacle Off Guadalcanal" by Richard Newcomb back 45 odd years ago as a kid. It was one of the things that sparked my interest in WWII naval history. More recently got a copy of the Lost Ships book mentioned by others. God speed to all those sent on the eternal patrol from back then - mind blowing to stop and think that many were probably only in their early twenties.

@Normandy1944 Ай бұрын

Robert Ballard being a man of historic events while he hunts historic sites, knows to take the best pics he can with his submersibles. Currents and wreckage strands being his biggest enemy to accomplish that.

@sirboomsalot4902 Ай бұрын

Was waiting for this! I had a distant uncle who was killed on Quincy. He brother-in-law was later killed on Kidd

@flashover2362 19 күн бұрын

I looked at photos of the USS Tuscaloosa, another New Orleans Class. For the image shown starting at 8:33, I think that is just behind where the aft stack would have been and ahead of then starboard catapult mount. When you look at photos of the class, there is the curve in the side plating at both the fore and aft ends of the gap between the hangar and the superstructure/funnels . While the photo I am looking at clearly shows more of the half circle than the image of USS Quincy, there is also structure that looks like the area above the large shell hole in the hull, shown below/behind the remains of the funnel at the left edge of the painting (at 3:47). That would make the square in the plating with the rounded oval in the middle of the Ballard Expedition image a place for midships mooring lines to run through.

@stevenrobinson2381 Ай бұрын

Her crew fought her as best as they could under the circumstances. They gave it all they had-witness the barrel explosions in Turrets 1 & 2. Rest easy QUINCY-we have the watch.

@briannelson4493 Ай бұрын

I have a book call Neptunes Inferno it covers all the naval battles around Guadalcanal. It’s very interesting reading.

@HandyMan657 Ай бұрын

Not first. Thanks, Skynea, take care.

@robertstone9988 Ай бұрын

Seems all us cruisers loose there bows any way the damage to the stern looks like she landed on it when she hit the bottom. Braking her back at the aft barbet/ end of the citadel bulkhead. The fact she still looks like a war ship is crazy. Most steal war ships are in multiple chunks with there decks all collapsed and spilled out all over the sea bed quincy is upright with all her guns and superstructure, minus her bow

@shepamundo3146 Ай бұрын

I had the VHS and have the DVD and book of Dr. Ballard's mission.

@JGCR59 Ай бұрын

The pic at 9:15 might be the foundation of her starboard catapult I think.

@Trebuchet48 Ай бұрын

Agreed. And the one previous is just forward of the starboard catapult, where there's a curved break in the deck line. You can see the rectangular opening, one of a pair, in pre-loss photos. As someone above says, it would be interesting to see how much more damage has occurred, since these pictures are from 1992!

@leroysgamesandmore2226 Ай бұрын

It is

@michaeldobson8859 Ай бұрын

9:00. It a fairlead. Used to “Fair” the mooring lines smoothly over the side of the ship. If your going to be a naval historian, you really need to read the Bluejackets Manualnand learn these things.

@stevenrobinson2381 Ай бұрын

"The worst blue water defeat inflected upon the United States Navy in a fair fight"-Samuel Eliot Morrison.

@HM2SGT Ай бұрын

*Geez, American Cruisers sure did have a major design\engineering flaw would that bow didn't they? Thinking of Pittsburgh in that typhoon...* 🤔😳😱

@matthewcaughey8898 11 күн бұрын

Those ships were avenged for sure

@jonathanhorne6503 Ай бұрын

Have the bows from the USS New Orleans and/or the USS Minneapolis been located and photographed? My dad was an Ensign in the V Division of the New Orleans.

@skyneahistory2306 Ай бұрын

Not that I’m aware of. The only detached bows I know were located are Astoria and Vincennes. …and Astoria is mostly because it landed on top of her stern turret, admittedly.

@PhantomP63 Ай бұрын

The bow of Minneapolis is a scuba dive site in Tulagi these days.

@leroysgamesandmore2226 Ай бұрын

Do USS Moody there’s a 3D model of her wreck available online

@DamonCulpeppeer Ай бұрын

How come the 8inch guns are pointing skyward?

@georgem7965 Ай бұрын

It may be that the elevation gear in the turrets was damaged or has deteriorated over the years and when it failed the heavier breeches fell down as far as they could. I don't recall if this class had guns that elevated together or could be elevated individually but because they are all parallel to each other I suspect the former. I suspect damage to the elevating gear because the guns are at a higher angle of elevation that they were designed to fire (about 35 degrees IIRC).

@knottyash9908 Ай бұрын

@@georgem7965 The 8 inch guns were not slaved together by a common trunnion like the dual 5/38 mounts. They could elevate independently. Both turrets showed signs of battle damage and also the guns could have been forced up by hydrodynamic sheer when the ship sank. The maximum elevation of the mk9 8 inch gun turrets was 41 degrees.

@PhantomP63 Ай бұрын

The 8”/55 on the New Orleans class are “triple turrets”, all guns on a common slide. The 8”/55 “3-gun turrets” on the Des Moines class can elevate barrels independently but are a different gun.

@knottyash9908 Ай бұрын

@@PhantomP63 I’m going off the Nav sea weapons publication the official document for Navel Weapons . According to it the New Orleans and all subsequent Heavy cruisers had Independently sleeved 8 inch guns. As a matter of historical curiosity I would like to know your sources of information? I know for a fact that the Boston class heavy cruisers had Different guns that could elevate independently mounted in different turrets with a lighter traverse mechanism. I have never seen any pictures of a New Orleans class main battery gun elevated independently when they were in action so I’m puzzled on what to believe.

@ronbork684 Ай бұрын

My Uncke Eddie went down with the last major ship lost in the battle of the Solomons. The Destroyer U.S.S. DeHaven DD 469. Looking forward to welcoming him back, when the sea gives up those dead in it. Revelation 20:13 John 5:28,29