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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 ...
Yamato – The largest battleship ever built, she was sunk on 7 April by torpedo planes from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet and others. 280 of Yamato ' s 2,778 crew were rescued. This was the greatest loss of life in a single warship in World War II. 2,498 Navy 1944 Japan
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 ...
List of battleships of World War II Ship Operator Class Type Displacement (tons) First commissioned End of service Fate Alabama United States Navy: South Dakota: fast battleship: 35,980 16 August 1942 9 January 1947 Decommissioned 9 January 1947; museum ship: Almirante Latorre Chilean Navy: Almirante Latorre: super-dreadnought: 28,550 1 August 1920
The Battle of the Komandorski Islands. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute. ISBN 0-87021-093-9. Morison, Samuel Eliot (2001) [1951]. Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, June 1942 – April 1944, vol. 7 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-316-58305-7.
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 ...
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1942 Ship State Description Boschdijk Kriegsmarine: World War II: The target ship was sunk. [1] LAS 21 Spanish Navy: The DAR 1-class anti-submarine motor launch was lost sometime in 1942. [citation needed] Norman H. Davis United States: The dredger was destroyed by fire at Key West, Florida. [2] HMT Senateur ...