The U.S. Navy submarine USS <i>Growler</i> (SS-215) alongside the submarine tender USS <i>Fulton</i> (AS-11) at Brisbane, Australia, in February 1943, after ramming the 900 ton Japanese cargo ship <i>Hayasaki</i> in the Bismarck Islands area on 7 February 1943. The front 7.6 m (25 ft) of the bow was bent over in the collision, but the pressure hull was not damaged.
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