A Surprisingly Tense Battle Between a U.S. Sub and a Fishing Boat 

lol

wasn't destroyed. still floating.

J3AN P3T3R well it technically was defeated

It was indeed defeated

Combat report, 141 ton Japanese ship outfitted for war caused 2 causalities; 1 dead, 1 wounded. Enemy vessel destroyed.

The Dishonored Coward if they had used it the one man would still be alive too

@@shaneskeffington9768 Probably not, after all that was 80 years ago, and from what I studied humans don't live very long.

@@rachdarastrix5251 that took me a second haha

the us made crapy torpedo's in early WW2. a torpedo may have not worked

@@shaneskeffington9768 First of all, attempting to sink a civilization ship itself should not be justified. Even it's armed with light weapons.

Crew man: "Sir, the target has been hit." Captain: "What's that noise?" *BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAI!*

This what happens when you're armed and are attacked. You defend yourself . Imagine that concept . .

@@addiumuppicus5738 are you unfamiliar with the concept of jokes

because the enemy is hunting fishing boats

Interestingly, rail mounted guns are very effective. US ships uses them today to combat pirates.

Yes. Lol

"War"?

🤣

I mean, it is accurate

Just imagine all these poor aircraft carriers running away in terror. This is too much dakka

A very Stoned Bear. 1st laugh of the day.

It's Deadliest Catch, by the way

Neonwarrior Ha

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂

Neonwarrior I think it's more funny they way he says it in this context though haha

fights like that are epic. Subs are not that powerful other than toropedo armaments' and never underestimate a armed merchant ship/trawler. You may not know this but during world war two lack of escorts often resulted in Armed Trawlers being used to escort convoys.

@@williamt.sherman9841 If you really think about it, a lot of the differences between purpose-built combat vessels and jury-rigged merchant marines were rendered moot points by convoy duty. A cargo ship with a gun strapped to the deck and the U.S.S. City Name are going to take a torpedo the same way and chances are their crews were about equal experience-wise.

_And they were beating us for a second_

Man! No wonder they thought bombing Pearl Harbor was a good idea.

Shadowkey392 LRon Hubbard bombed Mexico during the war The weren’t at war with Mexico

lolwutyoumad fun fact: USA bombed a city in Switzerland during ww2 because they thought it was German

“COOL!”

Vietnam war in a nutshell

Rambo.

Ernest Hemingway carried a Tommy gun to dispatch sharks before WWII. Then used his fishing boat and TG to patrol on his own during the war.

@@sojourner. somevody say Vietnam just summon me

War time

Cringe

@@chriswakefield9538 not cringe...

@@ineedaname8105 very much cringe

It's okay dont worry! They were American so it was okay

“Outstanding move!”

The chinese ones

The Somali XD!

Somali pirates lmao

Oh wait someone beat me to it

I thought it was brighter here now.

God I love this

Um..... Admiral. (sorry, I just had to be that guy.) 😁

C&C?

This is a game reference

I think the price he's referring to was the price of a human life. I could be misunderstanding what you're referring to though

Well a Q-ship.

You see the hats, They were at least merchant marine and armed. When you get shot I dont think you will care if the bullet came from an armed picket ship or a frigate. You are just as dead and your record will read lost in combat with the enemy just the same.

Yeah...an armed enemy trawler that was shooting at them.

I can take a gun on my bicycle, doesnt make it less lethal.

@@temeria1986 *_Nor me using a gun without any vehicle, just bare feet._*

Bill Huber that’s true it’s like saying that super large ship is very powerful too, when it only has a couple machine guns to it, or saying that small battleship is weak, when it has one of the most powerful shells in the world

German during the Battle of Britain, hmmmm

@Bill Huber That's something you Americans always do then you people invent a conspiracy theory to explain your failure.

Shadowmancer Know that only some of us try to hide our failures and that the others will admit it, Don’t try to compare us as a whole and learn that there’s two sides to each story.

@SheetBuffalo134 With Americans, there is only one side to the story... their side.

Of course

There would be no thought of picking up survivors.

@I Hate Toy Story 4 idk

@I Hate Toy Story 4 because we were at WAR with Japan at the time...and unfortunately the Japanese were a bit psycho and would literally fight to the death. Plus, it wasn't an innocent fishing trawler, they could all still radio back to an Japanese warship of the United State's Submarine location... So they had to be taken out..

@I Hate Toy Story 4 It was to end the war. It was the only thing that would get Japan to surrender, noone was happy that so many people died even the bomber who dropped the bomb wasn't happy. The Japanese have alot to apologize for too.

"Hiroshi"

*Hiroshi does a pro gamer moves*

Machinegun*

@@zandermean that was on purpose

Hiroshi, get de mácheenguná, shoota ata the subamarina

That’s Sea Shepherd

@@Losingsince offshoot of greenpeace

@@BenKuleshov yea and America is an Offshoot of the UK. Things have names for a reason

@@Joesolo13 nah, look into the history of the organizations before commenting about them.

@Baron Von Grijffenbourg They are both radical evils that make it harder for conservation in the long run.

I'll be ashamed and embarrassed 😂

Id die of embarassment

This is not fictional, one U-boat was run over by a cargo ship after even being hit by a torpedo, and though not sank immediately, the U-boat suffered huge damage and was sunk by a destroyer within an hour or so

There's another episode where machine gun fire causes enough damage to prevent a sub from submerging. Why wasn't this captain concerned over damage to the boat or his men getting hit? As soon as bullets "whizzed past the sailors and pinged off the conning tower" at 1:20, why didn't they get back inside and submerge? Then they could have withdrawn out of range of the Japanese machine gun but still in range of their deck gun and safely shell it, or use a torpedo?

actually an North korean sub is actually get netted by SK fishing boat

True. Imagine how much damage USA military was doing to whales back then. At least now they just damage the whales brains with sonor and other harmful frequencies.

They even used a klingon bird of prey to rescue 2 whales.

@@olorin1710 yes indeed

@@Kaga184 And worked well!

@Romulo de castro da silva captin! We’ve got Wales here!

Oof

*1 lonely guy in the basement with a 2013 mac laptop* :)

You realize the guy was joking right?? Idiot

Yes, and just as over melodramatic as ever.....

General Sheperd

Ooooo reference

🥱🥱🥱

Cod mw2 General shepard said that

@@kablorb4536 yup, he will be a good protagonist if he didn't choose to be an ars*hole.

i know its a joke but submarines carried tons of HE too although the documentary only mentions AP...

It’s like WoW when you shoot a Destroyer as the Yamato and the shells go right through doing nothing to the Destroyer

@@brandonproductions8401 a smolensk at point blank infront of a BB and all you get is overpen

@@ainzooalgown7589 LOL warships is not the best reference for performance of any kind related too real life specs

@@ainzooalgown7589 Also fun fact the Smolensk rolled over in port without any dmg

Could have been a 12.7X81, or 12.7X120. They'd have a bit better range than the 7.7. I , too, have questioned how close they were before I saw your post.

@@828enigma6 The book "The War Below" indicates that the engagement occurred at approximately 1200 yards which makes a lot more sense. It was really a boneheaded move of the part of the sub skipper taking his vessel in so close on the surface when he clearly could have used his deck gun effectively from a much greater range at which no return-fire would have been received.

The Great Dominion And the American naval uniforms don’t look right.

@@hofico6 it's raining. The US Submariners are wearing Rain Slickers over their uniforms.

Yep, no cooling fins on that barrel.

If you're being shot at by someone and you happen to have a machine gun in hand I guess you'll do the same.

@@tapist3482 not if I am in a fishing boat fighting a superior enemy

The Soviets, Japanese and German soldiers in Ww2 would know.

It worked, besides he wasn’t threatening to shoot them he was shocking them back to mission at hand. Chances are they would have cheerfully followed him to hell and back, and it would seem from the subsequent history of the Silversides, they did more than once.

I realy like to know, how many officers, who issued death threats against their own soldiers, found themself at the buisness end of a gun.

That's actually the reason infantry officers are issued sidearms and not rifles traditionally - not to kill the enemy with them, but to police their own men if they run. That is truly the actual historical reason.

What he said was, “if you don’t get back on that gun I’ll shoot everyone of you”. “If”. Shooting troops is rarely (never) done, but we all went through strict training on our obligation and authority to enforce lawful orders in time of war, deter and halt mutiny, and prevent cowardice in the face of the enemy. All of which are capital crimes under the UCMJ. We were also trained how to prevent those problems before they begin. (Ala Chamberlain) History shows that usually all it takes in a situation like that is a little jolt to remind good men of their duty and training. The US military, even in Vietnam has rarely had discipline problems in combat. The soldier and sailor, when all else is done, at the most basic forgets home and hearth, right or wrong, doctrine and principal, and fights for the man next to him, for the ship, the unit, and because he is a man trained to do a job that must be done. With all that said, and not really pertinent to this situation, running is contagious, if one man runs more will, and once unit cohesion is gone you’re no longer a military force but a mob. Though I’ll tell you, before I would have ever had need to shoot a fleeing man, the nearest sergeant would have already knocked him on his ass, and thrown him back into position, ... or drilled him. NCO’s have much the same authority in tight situations and your squad or plt. sergeant is much more likely to know if the troop just had a momentary freak out, or was a coward. NCO and PO’s are the backbone of the military. If the sgt squared the man away, and told me he had squared it away, it would be one of the many things that a leader “didn’t see,” and would not be mentioned again. Regardless, it is what it is. A decision to use summary deadly force will be reviewed by a board of review and then a summary court, make the wrong call and you’re in deep sh*t, that’s why Officers get the big bucks.

@c: Methods If you watched it, that commander of the boat had the chance to use a torpedo, but he didn't want to because of how expensive they were, and figured it could have gone to better use. They underestimated the Japanese boat.

Mc Water What? Can you make sense please? I can’t understand your shit grammar.

@@jaekim8820 Hopefully he doesn't take his own advice then. We don't need anymore low IQs like him running around.

@@dylon537 /r/woosh and /r/iamverysmart

@@JellyThatIsRoyal r/ihavereddit

Who attacked first and then surrendered? Yeah that's right...

@@veritaslibertas4976 the vietnamese certainly didn't

@@veritaslibertas4976 you remind me of 9 year me when I won fake arguments with my shampoo bottles while showering.

@@Ks-rp3mt cool story bro

@@Ks-rp3mt The Vietnamese won nothing but communist slavery.

The fishes are already gulaged

oof

Rule #1 don't talk about fish club!

"You're"

@@joey882286 you know what he meant

Colm Corbec sub or uboat?

@@levijones1874 sub. U-boats are German.

No shield for the deck gun...too much drag underwater.

If the commander had done his job right instead of medal chasing, the fishing boat wouldn't have even got to fire a round.

The picket boat had mo than that

Defeats the Asian stereotype ;)

Nice

Thank you

@John MacLellan it's a shame you dropped out of highschool.

@@caseyb1346 it is a shame in a way because they would've died no matter what. Had they been sunken faster, that soldier would have gone home to his family and the other wouldn't have had such a damaging head injury.

XD

How is it not worth a torpedoe though.

Torpedoes get wasted when attacking battleships anyways.

@@1mol831 yes but a battleship costs more then a fishing boat.

@@1mol831 torpedoes cost tens of thousands of dollars or even hundreds of thousands, one being used to destroy a fishing boat and to deny the Japanese a minuscule amount of food wouldn’t be worth it.

and some very fancy headbands

He faithfully performed the mission until the moment he died.

They never gave up, rather they usually died uselessly.

They stated in the video at 3:47 that it didnt sink

Good a true David and Goliath story maybe it's the Irish in me but I always root for the small guy

@@user-yg2up4lg3r well, i have to correct myself. Ebesi Maru No5, build 1934, 131 Ts, classified by USN as gunboat, was sunk by gunfire from USS Scorpion, 30.4. 1943, position of action/wreck is known (Source: World War Two at Sea, Vol 9, p269) - thanky you for making me think about it

Thomas Steffien excellent research on the actual source material! That’s history!! found recorded and taught. Thanks for the info and the lesson.

@@halfcantan1208 so... who is really the little guy in this case. Honestly I don't know.

Extravagant Baboon : We sometimes mount Miniguns to our small patrol boats.

Probably learned from this. Arm everything that floats to the teeth.

camerom gibson idk bro wagons were the shit back then

@User guy Ever heard of SWCC and their 2 GAU-17s, 2 M240b GPMGs, 2 Mk. 19 automatic grenade launchers, and single .50 caliber M2HB?

@User guy it definitely will, most us Navy rigs have either a .50 or a Minigun, usually the Minigun.

They hold longer than italy

Juuust a bit

Steve Dwyer A FISHING BOAT WITH A TURRENT

i know, ridiculous click bait title

yeah a fishing boat with a single machinegun.

The floating fortress....

**comment made by edgy 15 yr old kid named Eugene who sports a Hitler profile pic on youtube**

They have honor.

bart hill The death march was not honorable

Took two damn nukes to make them surrender.

@@TheCaptainSplatter when you thinl about that is incredible(in a bad way) but damn two nukes jeez.

I guess in World War 2 everything seemed illegal to the Americans, even returning fire or even dog fighting or even Ship warfare.

"I am the Captain now"

@@hyp3rr4lph45 captain sparrow :Hold My Cannnon

So tough til a russian navy makes your entire pirate crew missing

"write that down, write that down"

*simoleon

John Doe I can say the same, but for the game War 2 Victory. I remember how I could not build any max-level cities until some rare item I was able to receive allowed me to. So, holiday events were the only way for me to acquire those said items to stand a chance against those level 60-100’s who leveled up faster than I did because they had money and I didn’t. Also, I was not one who would beg my parents to make an in-app purchase for some iPod Touch game. They would just tell me to focus more on school, to be honest.

Feels like they should have just rammed it if it was just a wooden fishing boat

The submarine won

the submarine won

The submarine won

Arky Darky to be fair, it was the crews first battle. And they won, just at a little less than equal loss.

It's like when Britain was fighting for the queen while America was fighting for their life in the war of 1812. America technically loss but no one expected them to stand a chance

You're right.

And... They died by being hit by an shell. :)

Is thaT a jOjO rEfERenCe

JOSEPHU JOOSTARE

The fishing boat was probably a seal clubber lmao.

At least they can aim, I suck at aiming.

When your Tier 1 gunboat manage to severely damage Tier 4 ship single-handedly.

Submarine = High level noob Fishing Boat = Low level smurf

I'm pretty good at world of warships. It's my pc that's the problem. 16 fps max is not good.

_Very funny, _*_not._*

Lol

Means : Not funny really,Yes

This is how the Yamato was born

We are gonna build the biggest fishing boat in the world! *Yamato created*

@@nogisonoko5409 daz alot of fish

@@nogisonoko5409 nah it ended up becoming a cruise ship with artillery

@@DotDotDotDashDashDashDotDotDot felted by a few torpedo bombers from the U.S.S Enterprise

The trees, the trees starts to speak Don't you hear it?? "người Mỹ ăn nhiều đồ ăn vặt"

@@imtiredtiredtired that might actually be a language humans speak

They’re in the trees man! THE TREES! Btw I’m Vietnamese

George George bro it’s Vietnamese

A surprisingly tense battle between Vietnam trees and us napalm.

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@@hydrobazooka cruisr rules basically say you should order a civilian ship to surrender before sinking it, at this point in the wat its common on all sides but it's something the allies will accuse the germans and japanese of after the war

@@toothedacorn4724 oh

Nice try, Loch Ness monster - you almost had me.

Yeah, that's the way Naval artillery is designated, like the Iowa class's main armament is the 16"/50 Mark 7

I was so confused by this and was chalking it up to documentarians being inept.

All navies does that

Standard measurement for all guns.

Where is it?

Muskegon Michigan @@kentoscocos5238

Our Boy Scout Troop and Cub Scout Pack have spent the night on the Silversides.

I visited that sub and there's a memorial plaque on the deck where that sailor was killed.

Logan wrecked em' crazy to think I spent a night on this historic ship. I still remember them telling this story to us our first night there.

Exu lol how do Chinese and Japanese mount guns on their fishing boats TODAY

Nowadays al of the US ships are pretty impenetrable compared to fishing boats and bootleg pirates

@@18nakedcowboys3 No they're not, outside of Carriers, most warships of today can be easily penetrated by 50bmg rounds and bigger. what they do have though is firepower.

@@18nakedcowboys3 I wouldnt call it impenetrable. Your saying that because the Americans only invest on weapons and vehicles. Not many country even have the money to do it but one stray missle could sink one of the carriers anyway.

Yes when I mean investing on weapons I mean it. Not tactics. Take the Vietnamese for example. They may have outdated weapons but their skills is beyond what the Americans could do. Building damn tunnels and ambushing. If the Americans opponent is heavily influenced by sun tzu... It will put a hole in Americans history. And that Japanese ship you saw in the video. They actually returned to shore heavily damaged because the Americans was too busy looking after the dead after the commander has made a stupid mistake.

深谷颯人 you respect the Japanese fishing boat people

@@Firemaz I respect the fishy boat cuz the damn good sushi

@@mrsantosjon w

@ZX1 hey buddy, woah. This guy is just saying he respects the soldiers and sailors from both sides of the war, what you said was completely uncalled for... Japan is a changed nation, they are a peaceful liberal democracy that values their freedoms just like us now, and a mostly peaceful population. You shouldn't go around saying we'll obliterate their country with nuclear hellfire to people saying they respect both the Americans and Japanese who served, fought, and died in the war.

@ZX1 this is why half of the world hates americucks

Don't mess with me while I'm fishing in the sea Don't mess with me or the tree of liberty

@@lpdeath6229 yea they speak vietnamese

AND THEY BELONG TO THE CIA AND DEA AND WHEN THEY KILL EACH OTHER IT'S BETWEEN RIVAL CLANS OF THE FED

I feel so bad for people who feel bad for people who kill other people.

what about the Japanese Machine gunner? the Japanese crew?

@@suba1030 Germany started the war...

@@zandarzandarevic5466 well killing isn't bad. Its human nature. Primal instinct.

@@suba1030 WW2 started in 1939... Japan signed a treaty with Italy and the Germans in 1940 and thats when they became apart of the Axis party

And when ya spend a night on it it's better

Fellow Muskegonite, here.The USS Silversides was the 3rd most decorated submarine during WW2 having sunk 23 ships. While cruising through the Muskegon Channel, she's an awesome sight to see! Tours are provided, and overnight stays during the summer. Highly recommended!

heavily armed warship?

I say fishing boat. 🤔

Isnt it a sub?

Drinks 101 well, the sub actually won. We all are freaking out because one American died yet we totally disregard the fact that the whole Japanese crew died to a couple fresh sailor recruits. I’d say it was a fair fight.

Bullets don't work underwater but if the shark is real close to the surface it's time to start pumping lead.

You're joking but Ernest Hemingway legitimately brought a machine gun for shark hunting while tuna fishing.

@@adankmeme651 Bullets technically do work under water. They won't go very far for obvious reasons so yea the shark would need to be close to the surface.

@@neurofiedyamato8763 yes ik I think It's sorta posaible when it's fin breaches the surface, any deeper than that and it'll do nothing.

In reality he was ordered to sink it and a torpedo wouldn't work on a fishing boat so he had no choice

Why sink the fishingboat at all? Small balls??? Honor??? Please this was shere cowardness nothing more. Shame on those US navy.

@@Pectopah123 I'm sure the fishing boat was critical for the japaneese war efforts...

@@molybdaen11 Tuna for Sushi...👍

@@Pectopah123 The fishing boats were used to help feed the Japanese war machine. They also had radios to call in your position to the fleet or nearby aircraft.

Please no

I think some Japanese fishermen have died because of the fire on board as well.

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@@peterson7082 its a NY accent joke.

@@Kennypowers51 thnk u

Lol wow reference?

Cool. Has any enterprising soul set up an arcade style BB machine gun stall across the channel yet?

Am I the only one that thinks that that might be a bit bigger than a 50 cal seeing as its being loaded with 40 or 50 mm shells

@@devonlord99 Naval guns have a funky naming scheme to them, 50 caliber just means the barrel is 50 times as long as its diameter, so a 3" 50 caliber barrel is 150" long

@@somelokyguy6466 So that means the term caliber in this instance is a ratio and not a measure of diameter?

Hmm yes, my single guns.

@@Cowboycomando54 Yeah pretty much.

DESTROY A MEGA CARGO SHIP WITH A TINY GUN!

_Silversides_ is currently in her 1945 configuration which is what the Smithsonian media center filmed on. She didn't have the 5", 40mm., or 20mm. back in 1942. Just a 3"/50-caliber and a rear mounted .50".