Mystery of the Disembodied Bow of Ironbottom Sound
The New Orleans not only lost her bow, but she staggered away from Ironbottom Sound with over 180 men in her crew dead or missing.
新奥尔良号不仅失去了船头，而且摇摇晃晃地离开了铁底湾，船上有超过 180 名船员死亡或失踪。
But like the city for which she was named, quitting was never an option.
但就像她以这个名字命名的城市一样，放弃从来都不是一个选择。
Top Photo: The unique structure and stamps on the base of the anchor, with “Navy Yard” visible through the marine growth, helped confirm the identity of the USS New Orleans’ bow.
上图：锚底部独特的结构和印记，通过海洋生长可见“海军造船厂”，有助于确认新奥尔良号航空母舰船头的身份。
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海洋探索信托基金/ Nautilus Live, NOAA
Ironbottom Sound off the island of Guadalcanal is a target-rich environment for undersea explorers.
瓜达尔卡纳尔岛附近的铁底峡湾对于海底探险家来说是一个目标丰富的环境。
The site of five major WWII naval battles, the wrecks of warships that litter this stretch of water are so numerous that it becomes inefficient to reel a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) up to the deck of an exploration vessel, only to cruise a few thousand yards, and then redeploy the intricate research device back down into the depths.
这里是二战五次重大海战的发生地，这片水域散布着大量军舰残骸，将遥控潜水器 (ROV) 拖到勘探船的甲板上，仅巡航几千码，然后将复杂的研究设备重新部署回深处，效率很低。
As a result, the crew of E/V Nautilus sometimes tows ROV Hercules from one known target to the next, gliding just above the seafloor as a time-saving method.
因此，E/V Nautilus 的船员有时会将 ROV Hercules 从一个已知目标拖到下一个目标，在海底上方滑行，作为一种节省时间的方法。
That is how Nautilus Live and Ocean Exploration Trust made a startling discovery in July 2025.
这就是 Nautilus Live 和海洋探索信托基金在 2025 年 7 月取得惊人发现的原因。
While passing over an anomaly towering above the often-featureless seafloor, Hercules’s high-definition cameras spied an alien slab of steel.
当经过通常毫无特色的海底上方的一个异常现象时，赫拉克勒斯的高清摄像机发现了一块外星钢板。
Further exploration revealed the previously undiscovered bow section of an American heavy cruiser—a New Orleans-class cruiser to be more specific.
进一步的探索揭示了美国重型巡洋舰（更具体地说是新奥尔良级巡洋舰）先前未被发现的船首部分。
The revelation set off a rush to scour US Navy records to account for each of the American vessels lost in the area and her prospective major parts.
这一揭露引发了人们对美国海军记录的热潮，以查明在该地区损失的每艘美国船只及其未来的主要部件。
There were seven ships in the class, all relatively similar.
该级共有七艘船，都比较相似。
Three of them, bows not always intact but at least accounted for, were sunk during engagements with the Japanese in the area.
其中三艘在该地区与日军交战时被击沉，船首并不总是完好无损，但至少已被击沉。
The others, the USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37), USS Minneapolis (CA-36), USS San Francisco (CA-38), and USS New Orleans (CA-32) survived the war.
其他舰艇：塔斯卡卢萨号 (CA-37)、明尼阿波利斯号 (CA-36)、旧金山号 (CA-38) 和新奥尔良号 (CA-32) 在战争中幸存下来。
They would become some of the most combat-decorated American cruisers of World War II.
它们将成为二战中最具战斗装饰的美国巡洋舰之一。
The wildcard in the mix was a costly and violent engagement off Guadalcanal’s Tassafaronga Point on the night of November 30, 1942.
其中的变数是 1942 年 11 月 30 日晚在瓜达尔卡纳尔岛塔萨法龙加角发生的一场代价高昂且暴力的交战。
Patrolling an inky black ocean, an American task force attempted to intercept a clandestine enemy resupply effort.
一支美国特遣部队在漆黑的海洋中巡逻，试图拦截敌人的秘密补给行动。
They ran headlong into a deadly spread of 44 “Long Lance” torpedoes fired from a squadron of Japanese destroyers.
他们一头撞上了日本驱逐舰中队发射的 44 枚“长枪”鱼雷，造成致命伤害。
The USS Northampton (CA-26) was struck by two torpedoes, burned, and sank.
北安普顿号航空母舰 (CA-26) 被两枚鱼雷击中、烧毁并沉没。
Among the severely damaged vessels were the New Orleans and Minneapolis , both of which limped to Tulagi Harbor with nearly mortal wounds.
受损严重的船只包括“新奥尔良”号和“明尼阿波利斯”号，两艘船一瘸一拐地驶向图拉吉港，伤势几乎致命。
Amazingly, both vessels had their bows severely mangled in the fray, leading researchers to wonder exactly which one they had found on the ocean floor more than 80 years later.
令人惊讶的是，两艘船的船头都在战斗中严重受损，这让研究人员想知道 80 多年后他们到底在海底发现了哪一艘。
It didn’t take long to account for one of the two smashed forepeak sections.
没过多久就找到了两个被毁坏的首尖舱部分之一。
The bow of the USS Minneapolis collapsed and turned under but did not come free that night.
明尼阿波利斯号航空母舰的船头倒塌并翻入水中，但当晚并未恢复正常。
As the ship’s action report relates, “the bow section had folded downward at an angle of about 70 degrees but still dangled from the ship.” Navy divers later chopped it loose where it sunk to the bottom of Tulagi Harbor.
正如该船的行动报告所述，“船首部分已向下折叠约 70 度角，但仍悬挂在船上。”海军潜水员随后将其切碎并沉入图拉吉港底部。
It is still there in shallow water today, a popular Solomons dive spot.
今天它仍然存在于浅水中，是所罗门群岛的一个受欢迎的潜水点。
And, so, there was one major vessel component unaccounted for—the long-missing bow of the cruiser USS New Orleans .
因此，有一个主要的船只部件下落不明——新奥尔良号巡洋舰失踪已久的船头。
While the battle-scarred warship sailors lovingly called “NO Boat” lasted more than 26 years, this missing portion, left behind after that nearly fatal skirmish, was only attached for less than a decade.
虽然这艘饱经战火的军舰被水手们亲切地称为“NO Boat”，但它的寿命已经超过了 26 年，而在那场几乎致命的小冲突之后留下的这艘缺失的部分只保留了不到十年。
When the USS New Orleans took shape at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in the early 1930s, the idea of a war in the Pacific was no more than a distant thought.
20 世纪 30 年代初，当新奥尔良号航空母舰在布鲁克林海军造船厂成型时，太平洋战争的想法还只是一个遥远的想法。
On a rainy April day in 1933, a young New Orleanian, Cora S.
1933 年 4 月的一个雨天，一位年轻的新奥尔良人 Cora S.
Jahncke, was the sponsor for its launch.
Jahncke 是其推出的赞助商。
The 18-year-old and her father, the newly retired Assistant Secretary of the US Navy Ernest L.
这位 18 岁的女孩和她的父亲、新退休的美国海军助理部长欧内斯特·L·
Jahncke, conspired to buck tradition and christen the ship not with the traditional Champagne, but with Mississippi River water.
Jahncke 密谋打破传统，并没有用传统的香槟，而是用密西西比河的水来命名这艘船。
Cora smashed the bottle against the as-not-yet infamous knife-edged bow, and the cruiser named after “The Big Easy” began her illustrious career.
科拉将瓶子砸向了当时还没有臭名昭著的刀刃弓，这艘以“大容易”命名的巡洋舰开始了她辉煌的职业生涯。
USS New Orleans (CA-32), the flagship of the New Orleans class of heavy cruisers, was heavily damaged in the WWII Battle of Tassafarronga at Guadalcanal when hit by a Japanese torpedo, catastrophically detonating the forward magazines and tearing off nearly one-third of the ship, including the bow.
美国海军新奥尔良号（CA-32）是新奥尔良级重型巡洋舰的旗舰，在二战瓜达尔卡纳尔岛塔萨法龙加海战中被日本鱼雷击中，严重受损，前弹匣灾难性引爆，包括船头在内的近三分之一的舰体被撕裂。
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When war started for the Americans, the USS New Orleans was there, docked at a pier within Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
1941 年 12 月 7 日，当美国战争爆发时，新奥尔良号航空母舰就停泊在珍珠港内的一个码头。
Robbed of internal power, sailors fed her weapons by hand, giving birth to the slogan and song Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, famously shouted by the ship’s chaplain, Lieutenant Howell M.
失去了内部动力，水手们用手给她的武器供弹，诞生了口号和歌曲“赞美上帝，传递弹药”，这首口号和歌曲是由船上的牧师豪厄尔·M·科里中尉喊出的。
Forgy.
伪造。
Escaping the “Day of Infamy” with little more than a few dents and scratches, “NO Boat” went on to rescue survivors of the USS Lexington (CV-2) at Coral Sea, shadow aircraft carriers at Midway, and enter the bloody fight off Guadalcanal.
“无船”只留下了一些凹痕和划痕，躲过了“臭名昭著的日子”，继续在珊瑚海营救列克星敦号航空母舰（CV-2）的幸存者，在中途岛营救影子航空母舰，并参加了瓜达尔卡纳尔岛的血腥战斗。
The New Orleans not only lost her bow that night.
那天晚上，新奥尔良不仅失去了她的弓。
She staggered away from the conflict with over 180 men in her crew dead or missing.
她摇摇晃晃地逃离了冲突，船上有超过 180 名船员死亡或失踪。
But like the city for which she was named, quitting was never an option.
但就像她以这个名字命名的城市一样，放弃从来都不是一个选择。
The survivors rallied to patch up the vessel, and she traveled to Australia—backwards—for temporary repairs.
幸存者集结起来修补船只，然后她返回澳大利亚进行临时维修。
With a rudimentary “stub bow” fitted in place, “NO Boat” returned to the United States for upgrades and permanent repairs.
安装完基本的“短截弓”后，“无船”返回美国进行升级和永久维修。
As they pulled into Puget Sound, exhausted New Orleans sailors hoped for a long respite while shipyard workers recreated what amounted to one-fifth of the ship.
当他们驶入普吉特湾时，精疲力尽的新奥尔良水手们希望能得到长时间的休息，而造船厂的工人则重建了相当于船体五分之一的东西。
Little did most of them know, the workers at Bremerton Navy Yard had built New Orleans ’ sister, the USS Astoria (CA-34), 10 years earlier.
他们大多数人都不知道，布雷默顿海军造船厂的工人们早在 10 年前就建造了新奥尔良号的姐妹舰阿斯托里亚号 (CA-34)。
Even as “NO Boat” was struggling to survive, builders in Puget Sound dusted off the Astoria ’s blueprints and started work early.
尽管“NO Boat”正在为生存而苦苦挣扎，但普吉特湾的建筑商们却重新掸掉了阿斯托里亚号的蓝图，并提前开始了工作。
When the New Orleans arrived, the crew was confronted with a nearly complete prow awaiting them in drydock.
当新奥尔良号抵达时，船员们面临着一个几乎完整的船头在干船坞里等待着他们。
The mating of old, riveted hull and new, welded bow was only misaligned by a small fraction of an inch.
旧的铆接船体和新的焊接船首的配合仅错位了一小部分英寸。
A year later, in October 1943, “NO Boat” was back in the Pacific, once again complete, ready, upgraded, and pummeling targets at Wake Island with her 8-inch main batteries.
一年后，即 1943 年 10 月，“无船”号重返太平洋，再次完成、准备、升级，并用她的 8 英寸主炮打击威克岛的目标。
In the months after, the vessel crisscrossed the Pacific, most often leveraged to hammer the next steppingstone in America’s island-hopping campaign—the Gilberts, the Marshalls, the Marianas, and beyond.
在接下来的几个月里，这艘船在太平洋上纵横交错，最常被用来敲击美国跳岛运动的下一个垫脚石——吉尔伯特群岛、马歇尔群岛、马里亚纳群岛等。
Near the end, “No Boat” savaged shore positions on Okinawa while her crew kept a wary eye in the skies for kamikaze attacks.
接近尾声时，“无船”号猛烈袭击了冲绳的海岸阵地，而她的船员则警惕地注视着天空，以防神风特攻队的袭击。
She was in the Philippines when the war ended, then hastily dispatched to ports in Asia to secure Japanese warships.
战争结束时，她正在菲律宾，然后匆忙被派往亚洲港口，以保护日本军舰的安全。
She later brought a large compliment of homesick soldiers home from the island of Guam.
后来，她从关岛带回了想家的士兵们的一大堆赞美。
Off Tassafaronga, a Japanese “Long Lance” torpedo struck this USS New Orleans between her forward turrets, setting off the ship’s forward magazine.
在塔萨法龙加附近，一枚日本“长枪”鱼雷击中了这艘新奥尔良号航空母舰的前炮塔之间，引爆了该舰的前弹仓。
The bow broke away and sank into the depths.
弓断了，沉入了深处。
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This image shows the rudimentary “stub bow” affixed to the USS New Orleans for her journey from Australia to the West Coast of the United States in 1943.
这张图片展示了 1943 年从澳大利亚前往美国西海岸的新奥尔良号航空母舰上安装的简陋“短弓”。
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Photographed in drydock in Puget Sound, the USS New Orleans awaits a new bow as crews clear away damaged equipment and debris.
这张照片拍摄于普吉特海湾的干船坞，新奥尔良号航空母舰正在等待新的船首，船员们正在清理受损的设备和碎片。
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The final chapter of the USS New Orleans was not befitting a warship adorned with 17 battle stars in World War II.
新奥尔良号航空母舰的最后一章并不适合二战期间装饰有 17 颗战星的战舰。
She was sold for scrap in the late 1950s.
她在 20 世纪 50 年代末被当作废品出售。
In fact, the fragment discovered in Ironbottom Sound in 2025, the long-lost original bow, is almost certainly the largest piece of the venerated vessel known to still exist today.
事实上，2025 年在铁底峡湾发现的碎片，即失传已久的原始弓，几乎可以肯定是这艘受人尊敬的船只至今仍存在的最大碎片。
But there are more pieces of the USS New Orleans and keepsakes from the men who served aboard her.
但还有更多新奥尔良号航空母舰的碎片以及船上服役人员的纪念品。
The National WWII Museum has been collecting uniforms, equipment, and ephemera from “NO Boat’s” history for years.
国家二战博物馆多年来一直在收集“NO Boat”历史上的制服、设备和蜉蝣。
In mid-2026, The National WWII Museum will open a new temporary exhibit on the history of the distinguished fighting ship named after the City of New Orleans.
2026 年中，国家二战博物馆将开设一个新的临时展览，展示这艘以新奥尔良市命名的杰出战舰的历史。
Cory Graff is a Curator and Restoration Manager at The National WWII Museum.
科里·格拉夫 (Cory Graff) 是国家二战博物馆的馆长兼修复经理。
After a Japanese torpedo attack, a heavy cruiser survives to fight again -- with the help of a temporary bow fashioned from a tropical tree trunk.
遭受日本鱼雷袭击后，一艘重型巡洋舰在用热带树干制成的临时弓的帮助下幸存下来并再次战斗。
More than 80 years after the Battle of Tassafaronga, a team of scientists and explorers aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus found and imaged the wrecked bow of the New Orleans at the bottom of Iron Bottom Sound.
塔萨法龙加海战 80 多年后，一支由科学家和探险家组成的探险队在鹦鹉螺号勘探船上发现了铁底海峡底部新奥尔良号失事船首，并对其进行了成像。
Initially, hell ships moved Allied POWs to areas where their labor was needed, such as the Japanese main islands and other recently conquered regions, but later, they also moved prisoners to prevent them from being liberated by advancing Allied forces.
最初，地狱船将盟军战俘转移到需要他们劳动力的地区，例如日本主岛和其他最近征服的地区，但后来，它们也转移囚犯，以防止他们被前进的盟军解放。
A product of post Great War naval treaties and launched amid rising global tensions, the USS New Orleans forged a bond with its namesake city in the years before World War II
新奥尔良号航空母舰是一战后海军条约的产物，在全球紧张局势不断升级的情况下下水，在第二次世界大战前的几年里与同名城市建立了联系
Not only was the vessel a hometown hero, the USS New Orleans also participated in almost every major campaign against Japan.
新奥尔良号航空母舰不仅是家乡英雄，而且还参加了几乎所有对日重大战役。
And when faced with great tragedy, she always bounced back, much like the people of New Orleans did after disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
当面对巨大的悲剧时，她总是能振作起来，就像新奥尔良人民在 2005 年卡特里娜飓风等灾难之后所做的那样。
One of the last living survivors of the December 7, 1941, attack, Schab was serving as a musician and sailor aboard the USS Dobbin when Japanese planes struck Pearl Harbor.
沙布是 1941 年 12 月 7 日袭击事件中最后的幸存者之一，当日本飞机袭击珍珠港时，他正在多宾号航空母舰上担任音乐家和水手。
Although the attack on the USS Panay did not ignite a war between the United States and Japan, it marked a turning point in their relationship.
尽管班乃号遭到袭击并没有引发美日之间的战争，但这标志着两国关系的转折点。
Though the Aleutian Tigers have largely faded from public memory of World War II, their legacy lives on in both Alaskan historical sites and in the preserved or restored P-40s of the 343rd that still bear their iconic yellow tigers.
尽管阿留申虎队已基本从第二次世界大战的公众记忆中消失，但他们的遗产仍然存在于阿拉斯加的历史遗址和保存或修复的第 343 团的 P-40 中，这些飞机上仍保留着其标志性的黄虎。
Even though he grew up surrounded by WWII veterans in his small Arkansas town, Rod Fortner knew very little about where his dad served and what he had experienced as a young Marine.
尽管罗德·福特纳在阿肯色州的小镇上长大，周围都是二战老兵，但他对父亲在哪里服役以及他作为一名年轻海军陆战队员的经历知之甚少。
More than 80 years after the Battle of Saipan, DNA analysis helped identify and account for Marine Sergeant Frank L.
塞班岛战役 80 多年后，DNA 分析帮助识别并解释了海军陆战队中士 Frank L.
Schmaltz.
施马尔茨。
He was finally brought home to Louisiana and laid to rest with full military honors.
他最终被带回路易斯安那州，并以完全军事荣誉安息。
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