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Battleships Number in commission Number lost Loss rate Theatre Pacific Atlantic Panama Old battleships (OBB) 15 2 13.3% 2 Fast battleships (NBB) 10 0.0% Aircraft carriers Number in commission Number lost Loss rate Theatre Pacific Atlantic Panama Fleet carriers (CV) 24 4 16.7% 4 Light carriers (CVL) 9 1 11.1% 1 Escort carriers (CVE) 77 6 7.8% 5 ...
The Yankees underperformed throughout the regular season and were 41–41, with 80 games left to play on July 4. The Yankees went 51–29 in their final 80 games including a season-high 13 game winning streak, their longest winning streak since 1961. On October 3, the Yankees clinched a Wild Card berth with a 1–0 win against the Tampa Bay Rays.
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7. Gibbons, Tony (1983). The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships and Battlecruisers - A Technical Directory of all the World's Capital Ships from 1860 to the Present Day. London, UK: Salamander Books Ltd. p. 272. ISBN 0-517-37810-8.
Total large ships Carriers (Escort Carriers) Battleships Cruisers Destroyers Frigates & Destroyer Escorts Other large vessels Corvettes Sloops Patrol boats Submarines (includes midget submarines) De/ Mining Landing craft Personnel British Empire: 558 [12] 15 (29) 5: 35: 202: 270: 2: 338: 33: 4,209: 238: 1,244: 9,538: 1,227,415 USA and ...
German battleship Schleswig-Holstein, shelling Westerplatte in Poland on 1 September 1939. World War II saw the end of the battleship as the dominant force in the world's navies. At the outbreak of the war, large fleets of battleships—many inherited from the dreadnought era decades before—were one of the decisive forces in naval thinking ...
The British and Allied fleets fought battles all over the world and lost many ships, but only three ships were lost in battle against German surface ships : the battlecruiser Hood and the light cruisers Sydney and Charybdis. U-boats sank 175 Allied warships in total, [5] in all theatres of operations. Many of these were sunk in the ...
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The list of shipwrecks in 2021 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 2021 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 .