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The ship was knocked out of the war and although repaired, she did not see active service after World War II. She was scrapped in 1973. USS Wasp (CV-18), on 19 March 1945, was hit with a 500 lb armor-piercing bomb which penetrated both the flight and hangar decks, then exploded in the crew's galley. Many of her shipmates were having breakfast ...
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 ...
World War II: The Shchuka-class submarine struck a mine and sank in the Baltic Sea sometime after 29 October. [5] Sisunthon Nawa United Kingdom: The cargo ship was reported missing in early 1942. Presumed captured or sunk by the Japanese. [6] Trabajador United States Navy: The tug was sunk, probably by Japanese artillery, off Corregidor ...
During World War II, the United States Navy purchased two Great Lakes side-wheel paddle steamers and converted them into freshwater aircraft carrier training ships. Both vessels were designated with the hull classification symbol IX and lacked hangar decks, elevators or armaments. The role of these ships was for the training of pilots for ...
United States: Landing ship, tank Sunk [75] 15 December 1944 12°19'N, 121°05'E, off southern tip of Mindoro Cressman, p 592-593 DANFS Naval Historical Center: USS LST-749 United States: Landing ship, tank Sunk 21 December 1944 11°13'N, 121°04'E Cressman, p 595 DANFS Naval Historical Center: USS LST-750 United States: Landing ship, tank Sunk ...
List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1945 Ship State Description CH-28 Imperial Japanese Navy World War II: The No.13-class submarine chaser was bombed and sunk in the Balintang Channel) by North American P-51 Mustang aircraft of the 3rd and 4th Squadrons, 3rd Air Commando Group, United States Army Air
This is a list of ships sunk by missiles.Ships have been sunk by unguided projectiles for many centuries, but the introduction of guided missiles during World War II changed the dynamics of naval warfare. 1943 saw the first ships to be sunk by guided weapons, launched from aircraft, although it was not until 1967 that a ship was sunk by a missile launched from another ship outside a test ...
The training hulk, formerly the cruiser Tsushima, was sunk as a torpedo target in the Pacific Ocean off Miura, Kanagawa, Japan. Herold Norway: World War II: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk at Bergen, Norway in December 1944 or January 1945. [4] KFK 90 Kriegsmarine: The training ship, a KFK-2-class naval drifter, was sunk sometime in 1944 ...