If there were a contest to find the U.
S. Navy ship with the shortest career from commissioning to sinking,USS Lakatoi, with just six days, and would certainly be a serious competitor. Its career was so short the ship never received a hull number. I would never have heard approximately the ship if not asked to find out the truth behind a “sea myth.” The sea myth began with an improbable premise – a U.
S. Navy midshipman assigned to duty at Guadalcanal during the desperate days of 1942. After extensive research,I found two of the four officers of USS Lakatoi,... Read the rest of this entry »
Source: navalhistory.org