To all SSC Station occupants
Thank you for the donations over the past year (2024), it is much appreciated. I am still trying to figure out how to migrate the forums to another community software (probably phpbb) but in the meantime I have updated the forum software to the latest version. SSC has been around a while so their is some very long time members here still using the site, thanks for making SSC home and sorry I haven't been as vocal as I should be in the forums I will try to improve my posting frequency.
Thank you again to all of the members that do take the time to donate a little, it helps keep this station functioning on the outer reaches of space.
-D1-
The USS Johnston went down all guns blazing while engaging a vastly superior Japanese fleet. BBC article here.
A Fletcher-class destroyer!!
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Johnston_(DD-557)). They were in service in the Hellenic Navy too.
https://www.hellenicnavy.gr/en/145-en/history-tradition/636-velos-d-16-(1959---1991).html
Not so deep, but also a ship that went down fighting. Now a tourist diving site:
The Japanese battleship Yamato was involved in the Battle off Samar (where the Johnston went down).
She and her sister ship, Musashi, were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, displacing 72,800 tonnes at full load and armed with nine 46 cm (18.1 in) Type 94 main guns, which were the largest guns ever mounted on a warship.
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