Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Much like battlecruisers, battleships typically sank with large loss of life if and when they were destroyed in battle.The first battleship to be sunk by gunfire alone, [4] the Russian battleship Oslyabya, sank with half of her crew at the Battle of Tsushima when the ship was pummeled by a seemingly endless stream of Japanese shells striking the ship repeatedly, killing crew with direct hits ...
Sunken battlecruisers are large capital ships built in the first half of the 20th century that were either destroyed in battle, scuttled, or destroyed in a weapon test. They were similar in size and cost to a battleship , and typically carried the same kind of heavy guns, but battlecruisers generally carried less armor and were faster.
Shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico include ships which have sunk or otherwise wrecked in the Gulf of Mexico Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico . Subcategories
List of ships sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy; List of Allied ships lost to Italian surface vessels in the Mediterranean (1940–43) List of wrecked or lost ships of the Ottoman steam navy; List of United States Navy losses in World War II
USS Johnston: Sunk by primarily gunfire from battleship Yamato during the battle off Samar, October 25 1944. USS Laffey: Torpedoed and sunk by destroyer Yukikaze during Naval battle of Guadalcanal, November 13 1942. [11] [12] USS Little: Sunk by Kamikazes, May 3 1945; USS Luce: Sunk by Kamikazes, May 4 1945.
I have moved the latter four ships into "Lost at sea" and will be looking at the pages for each and every battleship on the list for cause of sinking. – Vami _IV 23:22, 18 July 2017 (UTC) Most of the German battleships listed in the scuttling section were later raised and scrapped, thus they should be in the "sunk and salvaged" section.
The blast severed the ship's entire bow forward of turret two. The bow twisted to port, damaging the ship's hull as it was wrenched free by the ship's momentum, and sank immediately off the aft port quarter. Everyone in turrets one and two perished. New Orleans was forced into a reverse course to starboard and lost steering and communications ...
A Nevada-class battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft during the attack on Pearl Harbor. (See also 17 May 1947.) USS Oklahoma United States Navy: 17 May 1947 The hulk of a Nevada-class battleship which sank while under tow 500 nautical miles (930 km; 580 mi) northeast of Hawaii. (See also 7 December 1941.)