Kitty Hawk vs Soviet sub

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

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In 1984, while on an exercise in the Sea of Japan, USS Kitty Hawk, a 60,000-ton conventionally-powered aircraft carrier, hit a 3500-ton Soviet nuclear-powered Victor-class attack submarine, the K-314, which had come to periscope depth directly in front of the carrier.

The collision rolled the K-314 over and broke off a piece of the propeller, which was embedded in the hull of Kitty Hawk. The submarine did not sink, but was unable to return home under her own power, and had to wait for a tug to rendezvous. A US frigate repeatedly offered assistance but was refused each time.

The Kitty Hawk sustained damage to the bow and sailed, slowly, to Yokosuka in Japan for immediate repairs, then returned home to San Diego, where the piece of K-314’s propeller was removed, as was the red silhouette of a submarine some wag had painted under the bridge.  (Emphasis was mine)

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

57 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

The collision rolled the K-314 over and broke off a piece of the propeller, which was embedded in the hull of Kitty Hawk. 

The Kitty Hawk sustained damage to the bow and sailed, slowly, to Yokosuka in Japan for immediate repairs, then returned home to San Diego, where the piece of K-314’s propeller was removed, as was the red silhouette of a submarine some wag had painted under the bridge.  (Emphasis was mine)

Some people got no sense of humor.

[Howlin Mad Murdock SASS #4037]

I was on the cruise right after that one.  The repair was to fill that compartment with cement.

 

In PI you could but a t-shirt with a picture of the KH hitting the sub, with "World's Largest ASW Platform".

[Pat Riot]

I think Russians are prone to running into things in the water. 
We were nearly rear ended by a Soviet trawler in the Mediterranean Ocean in broad daylight just east of the Rock of Gibraltar.  
In the Med we were constantly followed by Russian trawlers. One sunny day me and my guys were topside doing a PM on our aft missile launcher when someone noticed the trawler that was a mile or so behind us was gaining speed. 
He yelled up to the aft watch to notify the bridge.

Pretty soon the trawler was 100 yards away and still coming. The bridge hit the horns and the throttle then steered hard to starboard.  The trawler came within 30 yards of us. 
Captain Ailes then decided to chase these knuckleheads back out into the Atlantic. They ran until they ran out of fuel. Then we just turned around and went back to what we were doing in the Med. 

Edited July 10 by Pat Riot
Fumble fingers

[Sedalia Dave]

Many years ago I was drinking buddies with a couple of guys that were aircrew on P-3Cs.  One time a Russian trawler was picking up their deployed sonobuoys and cutting the hydrophone cables.  This left the buoy transmitting nothing and and tying up an available channel. It was getting pretty annoying so the crew gathered up all their box lunches and trash and stuffed it into the two cabin buoy launchers. AC then made a low pass directly over the trawler and they jettisoned the tubes.

 

Suddenly the trawler started making what appeared to be evasive maneuvers. and moving away from the line of deployed sonobuoys. 

The Optical turret operator said it appeared that something hit the deck on the trawler and he saw a couple splashes along one side. Turns out that there were a few cans of soda mixed in with the trash and apparently one of them hit the trawler. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Trailrider #896]

In the summer of 1961, I was a summer intern with the Navy's Polaris Projects Office. We went out off Cape Canaveral with an A2X Polaris missile aboard the EAG-154 USNS Observation Island.  We got far enough in the countdown that the squib-activated telemetry batteries had fired, when a hold was called. Smart-a$$ 19-year old that I was, I jokingly said we probably had to wait until the Russian "fishing trawler" had to get in position to monitor the flight. It turned out the trawler had actually moved into the "fallback" area, where there was a chance the missile could hit it if the bird failed to fire when launched by compressed air!  The coastguard went out to herd the trawler out of that area, by which time the telemetry batteries had run out and we had to go back to Port Canaveral so they could be changed.  We went out the next day and successfully launched the bird from the surface ship's tube, but the second stage failed to ignite so the test was not a success.