Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "The Drydock - Episode 253 (Part 2)" video.

2:05:15 - A good example of a ship (well, in this case technically a boat) that was scuttled due to battle damage without anyone going down with the ship would be USS Perch, which was severely damaged by Japanese depth charges in the Java Sea early in 1942; nobody died, but the damage wrecked three-quarters of her powerplant and left her unable to dive while she was well within hostile waters, so she was scuttled and abandoned by her crew after she came under attack by five Japanese surface warships. Everyone on board made it off and was taken prisoner by one of the Japanese warships in question, so Perch's wreck wasn't a war grave (I say "wasn't" because the wreck no longer exists).
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When did cutting-out expeditions stop being a practical proposition? Would it have been possible with any significant chance of success to, say, put several thousand U.S. sailors ashore at Kure from transport submarines on a moonless night in early 1943, sneak aboard Nagato, and steal the ship from its anchorage?
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