The USS Ling
The USS Ling was a high-speed submarine that was commissioned in 1945 under the orders of George Garvie Molumphy. It was created to fight German U-boats in the Second World War, although it did not ever fight in any battle. In 1946, it was taken from the Naval Submarine Base New London to the Panama Canal Zone. The following year, it was decommissioned and then given to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. The USS Ling was repurposed as a training ship and brought to the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York, where it was then recategorized as an Auxiliary Submarine. The 2,500-ton submarine can now be found at the New Jersey Naval Museum in Hackensack, New Jersey, although it is not accessible to the public. Despite the interest in restoring it, there was no funding to do this. In 2012, the sub was damaged during Hurricane Sandy.
The USS Ling
The Quester I
What does the Coney Island submarine wreck Quester I and the SS Andrea Doria have in common? The Italian ocean liner, which was called the Titanic of the ‘50s, went down in the Massachusetts coast after it collided with the MS Stockholm. It sank with 46 people and treasures estimated to be worth millions of bucks! After Brooklyn shipyard worker Jerry Bianco heard of this, he built a 45-foot submarine using salvaged metal from the Coney Island shipwrecks to get the sunken treasure. He dubbed it the Quester I and colored the exterior with yellow chromium paint, so it is technically the yellow submarine. Sadly, it got stuck in the banks when the operator did not follow the instructions as he lowered it into the depths in 1970. The vessel has since been abandoned with two dozen ruined vessels in the ship graveyard in Coney Island Creek.
The Quester I
