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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 ...
This explosion tore much of the aft-end of the ship to shreds, and she quickly acquired a list to the starboard. At 20:07, the ship's island detached from the hull and slid into the water. Two hours after the dual kamikaze attacks, at 21:15, Bismarck Sea sank with the loss of 318 men, the last US Navy aircraft carrier to be lost during World ...
All 350 crew aboard were killed with no remains recovered. The concussion and metal fragments hurled from the ship also caused casualties and damage to ships and small craft within 2,000 yards (1,800 m). The repair ship USS Mindanao, which was broadside-on to the blast, was the most seriously damaged.
Merchant seamen are civilians who elect to work at sea. Their working practices in 1939 had changed little in hundreds of years. They "signed on" to sail aboard a ship for a voyage or succession of voyages and after being "paid off" at the end of that time were free to either sign on for a further engagement if they were required, or to take unpaid "leave" before "signing on" aboard another ...
A Victory ship of World War II Liberty ship of World War II. The Emergency Shipbuilding Program built many types of ships to support the war. The most numerous ships were the 2,710 cargo Liberty ships. [25] Liberty ships were built between 1941 and 1945, with a new module assembly process so that about three ships were built every two days. [26]
World War II merchant ships of the United States (1 C, 295 P) W. World War II merchant ships of Yugoslavia (2 P) This page was last edited on 14 February 2024, at 12: ...
The following is a table of Allied shipping losses in the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II. All shipping losses are in ... Total losses by U-boats ...
World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the South China Sea west of Luzon, Philippines by USS Paddle and USS Hammerhead (both United States Navy) sometime between 25 November and 18 January 1945. [9] Strasbourg II Kriegsmarine: Strasbourg II World War II: The barracks ship was scuttled at Lorient, France. T-134 Imperial Japanese Navy