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The ship continued to fight as best it could and launched several torpedoes at a nearby enemy battleship but fires, loss of power, and exploding ammunition prompted the order to abandon ship at 0230. The ship's burning hulk stayed afloat until 1700 that afternoon before it finally sank. 70 men of Cushing's crew were lost.
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 ...
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
Ship Class and type Fate Other notes 9 March United States Navy: Louisville [1] Los Angeles-class submarine: 27 March United States Navy: Fort McHenry [2] Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship: 1 July French Navy: Var [3] Durance-class tanker: 29 July United States Navy: Independence [4] Independence-class littoral combat ship: 4 August Royal ...
List of ships sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy; List of Allied ships lost to Italian surface vessels in the Mediterranean (1940–43) List of wrecked or lost ships of the Ottoman steam navy; List of United States Navy losses in World War II
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Ideally displacements will be as they were at either the end of the war, or when the ship was sunk. The battleship was a capital ship built in the first half of the 20th century. At the outbreak of war, large fleets of battleships—many inherited from the dreadnought era decades before—were considered one of the decisive forces in naval ...
The List of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.