That is one massive shell hole in the stern. Impressive! The amount of horror and toughness the greatest generation went through just brings a tear to your eye!!

I like the crab just chilling out on the 8in muzzle

The senior surviving officer, RADM Robert Craighill, became an Episcopal Priest after he retired from the Navy. He baptized my son. Bob Craighill was a Lee and I had the privilege of sitting in the Lee Family pew at Christ Episcopal Church in Alexandria, Virginia at a service I attended with him.

Pay attention to how you pronounce the names, please...

Being originally from Illinois I have always heard the name pronounced "vin-senz" rather than "vin-sins.."

It was US Navy doctrine for surface actions was to engage the Japanese at night. The US Navy did not know that the IJN were night fighting experts and constantly practiced it. The original reason the US Navy established the doctrine, and you can't make this up, was because it was though the Japanese had poor night vision due to slit eyes. Racism and ignorance by US Admirals helped the Japanese sink three cruisers in one night without a loss, killing all of those Sailers.

At the start of the Second World War the U.S. Navy leadership was not up to the task, unfortunately. First and foremost was the absolute refusal to employ a massive advantage, RADAR. Simply Commanding Officers and senior officers absolutely ignored information that would have made the terrible defeat into an astounding victory. The same can be said for our torpedos, which would calling them JUNK would be a positive call. It took damn near a fleet mutiny for the Navy to even review the problem, then the ungodly foot dragging to fix that problem cost many vessels and lifes. Another item was the Proximity fuse for shells, often again senior officers did their best to not employ them as they didn't trust them, placing them deep in the magazines so they were the last to be used. Eventually these problems were addressed and rectified. Other services had some rather large issues also, so it wasn't just a Navy issue. Even today we are living with similar problems, and it will continue in world military to the end.

More US Navy sailors died in the waters around Guadalcanal, than US Marines died ashore.....

Had a family member perish on this ship. Rest in peace

My father was on the Vincennes. His tour was up and he left. 2 weeks later the ship was sunk. He ended his tour on the USS Swanson

I knew the story of this ship, and many others, as a child in the 70s. To see them come alive in 2024 is sublime.

I have always known this ship solely based on her photo taken from one of the Japanese warships during the first battle of Savo Island. Shes down by the stern, suffering a bad fire amidships, and is totally illuminated by Japanese searchlights. I found it surreal that a naval battle after the age of sail could have ships come so close to one another that you could make out the silhouettes of crew running around the deck, and the fact that this battle occurred at night makes it all the more incredible. I'm glad you're covering her wreck, as I have always been curious to her condition considering how badly she was shot up. That damage sheet really does show just how badly she was mauled before she eventually rolled over...and I don't think I have ever seen a warship wreck with evidence of an over-penetration shot. That last image of what looks like a cruiser caliber shell penetrating the stern is both comical, and kinda sad. It's not often that a ship's battle damage literally covers her from stem to stern.

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Great pictures, especially of the shell hole in the stern. Gives you some idea of what the Vincennes went through when being shelled by the WW2 Japanese ships.

I believe the torpedoes that sank Vincennes came from admiral Mikawa’s flagship, the heavy cruiser Chokai

Another great video, thanks!

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She truly was a beautiful ship!!!

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I was on the US Kilauea AE-26. 1967 Nam supply boat. A large ship Shasta class. Decommissioned in the 1980's. It was given to the Australian navy for submarine/torpedo practice. Some video of her sinking is online. Strange after all these years I saw my ship going down after a torpedo hit on it's port beam. So now it's a wreck off the coast of Australia. It's a reef now. I'd love to see pictures of her now. She had several tours in Vietnam. The Kilauea...we called her the Kill a Whale out of Perl... San Francisco/Oakland. I hung on the starboard anchor chain while we were cruising the Pacific. That's the craziest thing I ever did in the Navy. Hats off to the brave sailors of the US Navy who need our prayers now more than ever.