Come along with us to explore the USS Lionfish submarine and the Soviet Missile Carrier Hiddensee at Battleship Cove!!
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00:00Welcome back to another exciting episode today we're going to explore the USS
00:24Lionfish and take a look at the Soviet ship Hidden Sea at least I think that's
00:29how you pronounce it. As a reminder we are still in Battleship Cove in
00:34Massachusetts and they even have the Hidden Sea which is a Soviet vessel you
00:42can't get on it but you can view it and kind of see the different types of
00:47munitions. This was originally commissioned by the East German Navy and
00:52was a Tarantula class Corvette at least again I think that's how you pronounce
00:58it and it was built at the Petrovsky shipyard in 1984 which was located near
01:06the former Soviet or Russian city of Leningrad which is now known as
01:13Saint-Petersburg. An example of a Soviet built missile Corvette Hidden Sea was
01:20designed to oppose any naval threat to the East German coast and to fulfill
01:26this mission it carried long-range sticks anti-ship missiles and an array
01:32of defensive weapons designed to ensure her own survival. Following the
01:37reunification of Germany the Hidden Sea served with the Federal German Navy
01:43until she was decommissioned in April of 1991. Shortly thereafter she was actually
01:50reactivated and transferred to the US Navy which she continued as a research
01:56vessel until April of 1996 where she later joined the Battleship Cove fleet
02:03in Fall River on June 14th 1997. Now this is the USS Lionfish submarine
02:13there's a lot of repairs that need to be made as you see but we can still explore
02:18a little bit underneath as well. At the time we were visiting they were doing
02:24some deck repair as you can see here but it is kind of neat you can see
02:29what's underneath. But to tell you a little more about this vessel here is
02:35Davis to tell you all the ins and outs and its history and so much more. USS
02:43Lionfish SS-298 is a Belal class submarine and was the only ship of the
02:47United States Navy named for the Lionfish a Scorpenoid fish found in the
02:51West Indies and the tropical Pacific. After completing her shakedown cruise
02:56off New England she began her first war patrol in Japanese waters on April 1st
03:001945. Ten days later she dodged two torpedoes fired by a Japanese submarine
03:06and on May 1st destroyed a Japanese schooner with her deck gun. After a
03:11rendezvous with the submarine USS Ray she transported B-29 survivors to Saipan
03:16and then made her way to Midway Island for replenishment. On June 2nd 1945 she
03:22started her second war patrol and on July 10th fired torpedoes at a surface
03:26Japanese submarine after which Lionfish's crew heard explosions and observed smoke
03:31through their periscope. She subsequently fired on two more Japanese
03:35submarines and ended her second and last war patrol performing lifeguard duty the
03:39rescue of downed flyers off the coast of Japan. When hostilities ended on August
03:4415th 1945 she headed for San Francisco and was decommissioned at Mare Island
03:50Navy Yard on January 16th 1946. Lionfish was recommissioned on January 31st 1951
03:58and headed for the East Coast for training cruises. After participating in
04:02NATO exercises and a Mediterranean cruise she returned to the East Coast
04:06and was decommissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on December 15th 1953. In 1960
04:13the submarine was called to duty again this time serving as a reserve training
04:18submarine at Providence Rhode Island. In 1971 she was stricken from the Navy
04:23Register and in 1973 she was unveiled for permanent display as a memorial at
04:28Battleship Cove where she has evolved into one of the museum's most popular
04:32exhibits and a monument to all submariners.
06:13Well thank you Davis for giving us such great information and we hope to see you
06:42back here on our future adventures and as always have a great day