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The ship was knocked out of the war and although repaired, she did not see active service after World War II. She was scrapped in 1973. USS Wasp (CV-18), on 19 March 1945, was hit with a 500 lb armor-piercing bomb which penetrated both the flight and hangar decks, then exploded in the crew's galley. Many of her shipmates were having breakfast ...
Name Hull number Ship class Location Date Cause Arizona: BB-39 Pennsylvania class: Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941: Sunk by bombers from aircraft carrier Hiryū: Oklahoma: BB-37 : Nevada class: Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941: Capsized by torpedo bombers from aircraft carriers Akagi and Kaga and raised in 1943 but not repaired. Sank 17 May 1947 in a storm while being towed to San Francisco for ...
World War II: The Shchuka-class submarine struck a mine and sank in the Baltic Sea sometime after 29 October. [5] Sisunthon Nawa United Kingdom: The cargo ship was reported missing in early 1942. Presumed captured or sunk by the Japanese. [6] Trabajador United States Navy: The tug was sunk, probably by Japanese artillery, off Corregidor ...
During World War II, the United States Navy purchased two Great Lakes side-wheel paddle steamers and converted them into freshwater aircraft carrier training ships. Both vessels were designated with the hull classification symbol IX and lacked hangar decks, elevators or armaments. The role of these ships was for the training of pilots for ...
World War II: The transport ship was bombed and sunk in Allied air raids at Hamburg between 30 March and 8 April. She was refloated in 1948, repaired and entered West German service in 1950 as Clare Grammerstorf. [6] Elbing Germany: World War II: The cargo ship was damaged by artillery shelling and beached at Schweinesand. She was later ...
An American World War II warship sunk by Japanese forces in a fierce battle a few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. ... Sunken US WWII ...
The training hulk, formerly the cruiser Tsushima, was sunk as a torpedo target in the Pacific Ocean off Miura, Kanagawa, Japan. Herold Norway: World War II: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk at Bergen, Norway in December 1944 or January 1945. [4] KFK 90 Kriegsmarine: The training ship, a KFK-2-class naval drifter, was sunk sometime in 1944 ...
List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1945 Ship State Description CH-28 Imperial Japanese Navy World War II: The No.13-class submarine chaser was bombed and sunk in the Balintang Channel) by North American P-51 Mustang aircraft of the 3rd and 4th Squadrons, 3rd Air Commando Group, United States Army Air