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The SS Schenectady was a T2-SE-A1 tanker built during World War II for the United States Maritime Commission.. She was the first tanker constructed by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company shipyard at the Swan Island Shipyard in Portland, Oregon. [1]
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945. For smaller vessels, see also List of World War II ships of less than 1000 tons.
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Today she is a museum ship in Corpus Christi, Texas. USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) was severely damaged by two kamikaze planes striking the carrier within 30 seconds on 11 May 1945 off Okinawa, killing 390 men and wounding 264. The ship was knocked out of the war and although repaired, she did not see active service after World War II.
Ship Class Location Date Cause Donnell: DE-56 Buckley class: North Atlantic Ocean 3 May 1944: Torpedoed by U-473 and damaged beyond repair. Re-designated IX-182 15 July 1944 and converted to a floating power plant at Cherbourg, France in August 1944. Later used as a barracks ship. England: DE-635 Buckley class: Off Okinawa 9 May 1945
New England Shipbuilding ranked 97th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts. [1] Both closed at the end of the war. [2] [3] The two yards built 266 ships: 154 in the East Yard, 112 in the West Yard. The first 30 East Yard ships were Ocean class cargo ships built for the United Kingdom. [4]
Depth charged by Japanese escort ships while attacking a convoy in the Gulf of Thailand: May 2005 USS Grunion: 30 July 1942 Sank after torpedo and dive plane malfunction near Kiska: August 2006 USS Wahoo: 11 October 1943 Sunk after combined aerial bombing and surface depth charging in the La Pérouse Strait: 31 October 2006 USS Perch: 3 March 1942