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USS Casimir Pulaski (SSBN-633), a James Madison-class ballistic missile submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Casimir Pulaski (1745–1779), a Polish general who served in the American Revolutionary War.
USS SC-1024 United States Navy: World War II: The submarine chaser was sunk in a collision off North Carolina when two convoys respectively northbound and southbound met in bad visibility. She was rammed by USS Plymouth ( United States Navy) and then by Cities Service Fuel ( United States). SC-1024 capsized and sank with the loss of all hands.
USS SC-636 was a SC-497 class submarine chaser that served in the United States Navy during World War II. It was laid down on 29 August 1941 by the Vineyard Shipbuilding Co. in Milford, Delaware and launched on 14 May 1942. It was commissioned on 11 July 1942. It foundered during Typhoon Louise on 9 October 1945 off the coast of Okinawa.
Victory Shipbuilding Company built two submarine chasers that were of the SC-497-class submarine chaser design that had a displacement of 94 tons with a length of 110 feet (34 m), a beam of 17 feet (5.2 m), a draft of 6 feet (1.8 m), a top speed of 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph). They had a crew of 28.
LCM(3) as a top speed of 8 knots (9.2 mph) full and 11 knots (13 mph) lite. Armed with two .50-cal M2 Browning machine guns , manned by a crew of 4. The cargo hold has a max capacity of one 30-ton tank (e.g. M4 Sherman ) or 60 troops, or 60,000 lb (27,000 kg) of cargo.
USS SC-700 United States Navy: The submarine chaser burned at Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands in a refueling accident. One man died and seven were missing. [73] [74] S-54 Soviet Navy: World War II: The S-class submarine struck a mine and sank in Syltefjord, Norway with all 50 hands. [5] [75] [76] Sangigi Italy
List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1943 Ship State Description Arthur Middleton United States World War II: Convoy UGS 3: The Liberty ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea) by U-73 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 24 gunners, 43 crew, and twelve passengers, including all eleven crew of USS LCT-21 ( United States Navy; on board as deck cargo
USS South Carolina (BB-26), the lead ship of her class of dreadnought battleships, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the eighth state.She was also the first American dreadnought; though she did not incorporate turbine propulsion like HMS Dreadnought, South Carolina ' s design included revolutionary aspects as well, primarily the superfiring arrangement of ...