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Atik had attracted the attention of U-123, on her second war patrol off the eastern seaboard. The U-boat, on the surface, began stalking Atik at 17:00, and at 19:37 fired one torpedo from 700 yd (640 m) away which struck the ship on her port side, under the bridge. Fire broke out immediately, and the ship began to assume a slight list.
USS Atik (Lieutenant Commander Harry Lynnwood Hicks), was originally a merchantman named SS Carolyn which was converted to a Q-ship after America's entry into World War II. Atik displaced 6,610 tons with a crew of 141 men and an armament of four 4 in (100 mm) naval guns, eight machine guns and six K-guns.
Battleship: USS Arizona Memorial, Sunken Wreck [5] USS Barry: United States District of Columbia: Washington D.C. United States. 1955 Forrest Sherman class: Destroyer: scrapped Brownsville, Texas, 11 February 2022 USS Batfish: United States Oklahoma: Muskogee: United States: 1943 Balao class: Submarine: Muskogee War Memorial Park [6] Bauru ...
Battleship Memorial Park is home to the USS Alabama Battleship, a World War II behemoth that served in the North Atlantic and South Pacific waters. Commissioned in 1942, the ship was a key player ...
German submarine U-123 sank the American Q-ship USS Atik. German submarine U-587 was depth charged and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by British warships. Joe Louis knocked out Abe Simon in the sixth round at Madison Square Garden to retain the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship. [41] Born: John Sulston, biologist, in Cambridge, England (d. 2018);
In May 1962, USS Alabama had been ordered scrapped along with her South Dakota-class sister ships, USS South Dakota, USS Indiana, and USS Massachusetts. [4] Citizens of the state of Alabama had formed the "USS Alabama Battleship Commission" to raise funds for the preservation of Alabama as a memorial to the men and women who served in World War II.
Warren “Red” Upton, the 105-year-old World War II US veteran who was the oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor, died on Christmas Day, according to Sons ...
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