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Early the following morning, the ship was chased by four Japanese Coast Guard vessels, who ordered it to halt, and fired 25 warning shots upon the ship when those orders were ignored. [9] A six-hour firefight ensued, in which over 1,000 machine gun rounds were fired by both sides; [ 1 ] the North Korean crew were said to have wielded shoulder ...
US ship dispositions at time of Pearl Harbor attack. Rear Admiral Walter S. Anderson. Battleship Division 1 Rear Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd † 1 Pennsylvania class (12 × 14-inch main battery) Arizona (BB-39) (sunk) (Captain Franklin Van Valkenburgh †) 2 Nevada class (10 × 14-inch main battery) Nevada (BB-36) (Captain Francis W. Scanland)
All 550 British, Dutch, Irish and New Zealand FEPOWs died. Some 300 died in the initial explosion from the two torpedo impacts and the ship's boiler exploding, both in the vicinity of these casualties in the rearmost Hold 4, or drowned on the sinking of the ship or were later shot after some 7-8 hours struggling in the sea.
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Santa Anna was an early 16th-century carrack of the navy of the Knights Hospitaller.The war ship was celebrated for her many modern features. While some authors view her lead sheathed hull as an early form of ironclad, [1] others regard it primarily as a means to improve her watertightness.
The ship's lifeboats were not a place of safety, unless other shipping or land was close at hand. [2] On the very first day of the war, SS Athenia was sunk by the German submarine U-30. Mistaking the Athenia for an "armed merchantman," no opportunity was provided to the ship's crew or passengers to be first delivered to a "place of safety."
Elli (Greek: Κ/Δ Έλλη) was a 2,600 ton Greek protected cruiser (Greek: Εύδρομο Καταδρομικό) named for a naval battle of the First Balkan War in which Greece was victorious. She was completed in 1913 and commissioned in 1914. Elli saw action during World War I and in the disastrous Asia Minor Expedition.
The Naniwa Maru (浪華丸) is a replica ship of a typical Japanese trader from the Edo period (1603-1868) known as a higaki kaisen.It was built as the main exhibit for the Osaka Maritime Museum, with academic interest which also encouraged sea based testing until it was transferred into the newly built museum.