As the sun set over the ship, the sailors played cards and read books some spoke with the ship’s priest, Father Thomas Conway.īut shortly after midnight, a Japanese torpedo hit the Indianapolis in the starboard bow, blowing almost 65 feet of the ship’s bow out of the water and igniting a tank containing 3,500 gallons of aviation fuel into a pillar of fire shooting several hundred feet into the sky. The next day was quiet, with the Indianapolis making about 17 knots through swells of five or six feet in the seemingly endless Pacific. But now, on July 28, the Indianapolis sailed from Guam, without an escort, to meet the battleship USS Idaho in the Leyte Gulf in the Philippines and prepare for an invasion of Japan. On August 6, 1945, the weapon would level Hiroshima.

Size comparison – Credits to Ch0m1nįor the classic reminder, this is a ship in testing, anything can change so don’t look at her like she would already be released.The USS Indianapolis had delivered the crucial components of the first operational atomic bomb to a naval base on the Pacific island of Tinian.

Meanwhile, the design was only meant to reach 23 knots underwater.

In World of Warships, the U-4501 is somehow breaking all laws of physics with an underwater speed of 41 knots, making it the fastest submarine in the game by far. By the end of the war, only some sections of U-4501 to U-4504 had been started. In total, an order of 100 units was placed in May 1944 with the various units being named U-4501 to U-4600. These submarines were meant to be armed with ten torpedo launchers, four on the bow and 6 on the side, and pointed towards the rear. The section would then be assembled in a larger shipyard. These submarines were following a modular design with the construction of 8 sections in steel construction companies followed by manufacturing in specialized submarine shipyards. The design was intended as a small high-seas U-boat propelled by the Walter system. U-4501 was a never-completed submarine of the Type XXVI design.

Even though the whole balancing of the ship type is an absolute dumpster fire, we are getting our first tier X submarine freemium entering testing. Guess we are now on the next step with submarines.

Submarine in world of warships