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Initially, due to their proximity to the centre of the explosion, their remains were not found, and three days later the Northern Despatch newspaper still listed them as being among the missing. Killed were listed as one Royal Air Force , one Military, three railway staff, three civilian and two unidentified.
The wreck was found in American waters 1,200 ft (366 m) beneath the sea about 3–4 mi (3–3 nmi; 5–6 km) outside Pearl Harbor. [5] The starboard side of the Japanese submarine's conning tower has one shell hole, evidence of damage from Ward ' s number-three gun.
SS Richard Montgomery is a wrecked American Liberty ship that was built during World War II. She was named after Richard Montgomery, an Irish officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War. [4] She was wrecked on the Nore sandbank in the Thames Estuary, near Sheerness, Kent, England, in
The remains of the century-old Navy destroyer USS Stewart were found some 3,500 feet deep on the ocean floor in the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary – about 50 miles from San Francisco ...
Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Saturday that the wreck of a Japanese merchant ship, sunk in World War Two with 864 Australian soldiers on board, had been found in the South ...
HMS Royal Oak Royal Navy 833 killed [65]: 14 October 1939 [66: Scapa Flow [67]: Capsized under 33 meters (108 ft) of water. [68]: Royal Oak ' s bell is the centerpiece to a memorial to those who died aboard Royal Oak at St Magnus' Cathedral in Kirkwall. [69]: Bretagne: French Navy: 977 killed [70]: 3 July 1940 [71]: Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria [71]: Scrapped [72]: —. Kilkis [h]: Royal Hellenic ...
The wreck of one of the most storied US Navy submarines of World War II has been found in the South China Sea eight decades after its last patrol, the Navy’s History and Heritage Command said ...
Pinguin – A German auxiliary cruiser which served as a commerce raider in World War II that captured or sunk 32 ships. On 8 May she was sunk in a battle with HMS Cornwall in the Indian Ocean. Of 401 crew, 341 were lost along with 214 of the 238 prisoners aboard. 555 1942 Italy