Was there every an instance in history where a battleship (or any large warship) was actually sunk by weather?
Was there every an instance in history where a battleship (or any large warship) was actually sunk by weather?
Aiden Hall
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Grayson Reed
Spanish galleons were sunk by the bad weather while sailing around Scotland in 1588.
Landon Mitchell
Some IJN destroyers capsized due to weather because of how top-heavy they were.
Leo Perry
There are probably instances of u-boats and other submarines sinking due to weather in WW1 and WW2
Hudson Johnson
Uboats go underwater on purpose user. That's what they do.
Jack Lee
I thought submarines were immune to storms.
Nathaniel Stewart
A sunk ship is one that is on the bottom of the ocean. Uboats don't drag themselves across the seabed.
Andrew Johnson
Not when they are surfaces. Surface subs roll pretty badly due to not having a keel.
Jose Robinson
This might be a stupid question, but can't a submarine just submerge if it runs into bad weather? Wind and rain can't have any effect below the surface, correct?
Jason Stewart
I find submarines terrifying
Adrian White
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Benjamin Gomez
Why stay on surface if you are a submarine?
Ian Nelson
That's how you see where you're going and also launch torpedoes
Nolan Garcia
*or if you're damaged and you can't submerge like a sub in 'Pursuit' iirc
Camden Edwards
Monitors have a very shallow draft to allow operation in shallow waters. Shallow-draft ships never survive well in bad weather.
Lincoln Green
During a storm? It doesn't make sense, you don't fight in these conditions.
Carson Taylor
Not very spectcular disaster but Vasa, a Swedish galeon, sank while leaving for the maiden voyage, after a powerful gust of wind made it sharply tilt to the side, allowing water to the gundeck. That ship was supposed to be the peril of Swedish navy, so king Gustavus Adolphus was pretty pissed when he heard about it.
Nathan Allen
Elijah Flores
Same exact thing happened to the Mary Rose, the flagship of the English kind Henry VIII. They dug it up out of the sea mud in the 1980's, it was full of interesting artifacts.
Easton Russell
This. It must have been pretty embarrassing desu.
Isaiah Jones
Apparently Henry wasn't too pleased.
Oliver Bell
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Fuck that. I will never serve in the navy.