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Atik (AK-101) was placed in commission at 16:45 on 5 March 1942, at the Portsmouth Navy Yard. At the outset, all connected with the program apparently harbored the view that neither ship "was expected to last longer than a month after commencement of [her] assigned duty." Atik ' s holds were packed with pulpwood, a somewhat mercurial material ...
USS Atik (Lieutenant Commander Harry Lynnwood Hicks), was originally a merchantman named SS Carolyn which was converted to a Q-ship after America's entry into World War II. Atik displaced 6,610 tons with a crew of 141 men and an armament of four 4 in (100 mm) naval guns, eight machine guns and six K-guns.
German submarine U-123 sank the American Q-ship USS Atik. German submarine U-587 was depth charged and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by British warships. Joe Louis knocked out Abe Simon in the sixth round at Madison Square Garden to retain the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship. [41] Born: John Sulston, biologist, in Cambridge, England (d. 2018);
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AK-101 aka USS Atik, sister ship of the USS Asterion After brief sea trials, Asterion sailed for her assigned patrol area on 23 March 1942, in company of Atik . Each ship was to proceed independently under the guise of a tramp steamer, in the hope of luring a U-boat to the surface and destroying the submarine with gunfire before she realized ...
USS S-4; USS S-28; Venetian ship San Carlo Borromeo; ARA San Juan (S-42) Brazilian battleship São Paulo; HMS Satellite (1806) USS Scorpion (SS-278) USS Scorpion (SSN-589) HMS Seagull (1795) HMS Serin (1794) HMCS Shawinigan (K136) Japanese destroyer Shinonome (1927) Japanese destroyer Shirakumo (1927) Japanese destroyer Shiranui (1938) Japanese ...
the Boston beam trawler MS Wave, which briefly became the auxiliary minesweeper USS Eagle (AM-132) before becoming USS Captor (PYc-40), SS Evelyn and Carolyn, identical cargo vessels that became USS Asterion (AK-100) and USS Atik (AK-101) respectively (these hull numbers were actually duplicates of the USS Lynx and the USS Lyra respectively),