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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.
The 3-inch/23-caliber gun (spoken "three-inch-twenty-three-caliber") was the standard anti-aircraft gun for United States destroyers through World War I and the 1920s. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter, and the barrel was 23 calibers long (barrel length is 3" × 23 = 69" or 1.75 meters.) [1]
Four HDML, Harbour Defence Motor Launch, Motor Launch that had a displacement of 46 tons, a length of 72-feet, crew of 10 men.Armed with one 3 or 4-pounder gun and four .303 AA guns.
They were armed with one Bofors 40 mm gun, two Browning M2 .50 cal. machine guns, two depth charge projector "Y guns", and two depth charge tracks. Some of the submarine chasers were lent to Allies of the United States as part of the Lend-Lease program. Fellows & Stewart's SC-1011 went to the Soviet Union. [19] [20] [21]
USS SC-292 1920 sold commercial becoming Trawler "Chief Seattle" [12] USS SC-293 1920 sold commercial becoming Trawler "George L. Harvey" [ 12 ] USS SC-294
She was commissioned into the US Navy as USS SC-718 on 25 May 1943. [ 2 ] In August 1943 US Admiral Harold R. Stark , commander of US Naval Forces Europe , ordered SC-718 and two other SC-class subchasers - SC-683 and SC-1061 - to be transferred to Britain.
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.
Kaijo Maru was torpedoed on 17 March by USS Tautog ( United States Navy to prevent salvage by the Japanese. [4] [40] [136] HMS MGB 622 Royal Navy: World War II: The motor gun boat was shelled and sunk off Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands by Kriegsmarine warships. Fifteen of her 25 crew were killed, and the survivors were captured.