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The Bahia class was a pair of scout cruisers built for Brazil by Armstrong Whitworth in the United Kingdom, based on a design that borrowed heavily from the British Adventure-class scout cruisers. The class comprised the lead ship Bahia and her sister Rio Grande do Sul , along with a canceled third ship, Ceara . [ 4 ]
The list of shipwrecks in 1945 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1945 This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul were berthed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for the visit. [27] During the Brazilian Revolution of 1930, Bahia served with Rio Grande do Sul—until that ship defected—and five or six destroyers off the coast of Santa Catarina; they were once again commanded by Belford Gomes.
Success was an Australian prison ship, built in 1840 at Nat Moo shipyard in Mawlamyine (then Moulmein), Burma, for Cockerell & Co. of Calcutta.Between the 1890s and the 1930s, she was converted into a floating museum displaying relics of the convict era and purporting to represent the horrors of penal transportation in Great Britain and the United States of America.
More than 80 years after a Brazilian warship was sunk by a German submarine during World War II, the vessel's location has finally been confirmed, Brazil's navy has revealed.
The attacks on Kure and the Inland Sea by United States and British naval aircraft in late July 1945 sank most of the surviving large warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). The United States Third Fleet 's attacks on Kure Naval Arsenal and nearby ports on 24, 25, and 28 July sank an aircraft carrier , three battleships , five cruisers ...
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For the first time ever, scientists are getting a crystal-clear look at a fascinating, and haunting, piece of WWII history -- the only submarine the Nazis lost in the Gulf of Mexico. Media outlets ...