USS Sealion 'The Sealion Story'

[@hertzair1186]

Love these…binge watching and can’t stop… help, I need counseling.

[@Greekphotographer]

Vice-Admiral Eli T. Reich was my next door neighbor in Washington, DC for nearly 25 years

[@johnrogan9420]

4 lookouts on the bridge.

[@Rockin4D]

"C7...... " 'hit' "you sank my battleship!"

[@bobhayes1333]

I know a gentleman who served on the USS Sealion II. He told me that Midway was so overrun with rats, he slept on the sub instead of the barracks. The bit about thinking the Kongo was a land mass was accurate. Every so often, an author or a TV producer shows up at his door to interview him. For a less-sanitized version of the Sealion sinking of the Kongo check out "Radar (2001, WWII Documentary) " at about 37 minute mark.

[@TERoss-jk9ny]

I will look that up, thanks!

[@boogerdog5247]

I served on the Sealion briefly in 68'...she sure could sweat! Best Navy man I ever met, was the Sealion's COB.

[@tullibee]

@@boogerdog5247 As a child, I remember her in Key West in 1969, and later in Groton, Ct in the mid-1970s. Dad was on Atule and Grenadier.

[@boogerdog5247]

@@tullibee OMG! I never realized, just how much I miss polished brass and stainless steel. I was on her, bout' 68' ish, and if they let me, I'd ship out tomorrow! Best Chief I ever met in this man's Navy. She leaked like a sive, we used coffee cans to keep the IBM Selectric dry and emptied them into the bilges. She sank the Kongo battleship in WWII, and, on the net, you can find the audio recording, the ONLY ONE from WWII that exists, of a run on an enemy vessel. Torpedo tubes, fwd, aft, cut out, outer doors welded shut, became fwd, aft "troop compartments" for what today, would be SEALS. God Bless, run "Hot, Straight, n Normal."

[@thekingsilverado3266]

Back in the day real sailors used to keep tend kittens & cats in our birth areas... It was to a captain to play stupid as to whether we had UA stuff... Cats on ships today are invaluable. Including yachts.. I only have one cat left Sea Ready... Sea going cats R much diff than land lubber tabby tunas....

[@pisstinpete4700]

Chief played by Sid Melton aka Iccabod Mudd (with 2Ds)

[@josephpadula2283]

At 02:11 they mention Captain Voge. He retired as a rear Admiral and I served on a FF /1047 Fast Frigate that was named for him . We were rammed by an Echo II Soviet Sub . Lots of photos on line of the damage .

[@kristoffermangila]

Eli T. Reich was a junior officer on the first USS Sealion, which was hit by a bomb during the attack on the Cavite Navy Yard in Cavite in the Philippines on December 8, 1942. Four Sealion crewmembers were killed, and the names of the four dead crewmen were scrawled onto the torpedoes that were targeted against the Kongou.

[@johnrogan9420]

battleship blows up hours later?some serious plot points...final interview with ELI seemed evasive too..."lots going on",,,translated: "not sure what occurred",

[@chen_plays4173]

Was this the submarine who sank Kongō?

[@mikegonzalez8240]

Chen_plays yes

[@e.s.1920]

The kongo sunk two of our very courageous destroyers. God bless the sea lion

[@RailsOfTheSouthProductions]

@@e.s.1920 revenge for the Hoel and Johnston!

[@AndrewVelonis]

Did you watch the video?

[@bobhayes1333]

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