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The wreck of USS Pope was located and identified in December 2008 by the dive vessel MV Empress, approximately 60 nautical miles (110 km) from the wreck of HMS Exeter, which Empress discovered in 2007. Unfortunately commercial salvage divers had discovered Pope previously and save for a skeleton, little now remains of her wreck. [5]
USS Pope (DE-134) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys. She was named after commodore John Pope, born 17 December 1798 in Sandwich, Massachusetts.
USS Pope may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Pope (DD-225) , a Clemson -class destroyer, commissioned in 1920 and sunk in battle in 1942. USS Pope (DE-134) , an Edsall -class destroyer escort, commissioned in 1943 and decommissioned in 1946.
Died: George S. Rentz, 59, United States Navy chaplain (killed in action); Cornelius Vanderbilt III, 68, American military officer, inventor, engineer and yachtsman March 2 , 1942 (Monday) [ edit ]
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The aircraft lost its way in the fog and crashed near Gulnar in the Mersin province in Southern Turkey. The crash resulted in the death of all five crew. The fledgling Indian Air Force's third senior-most officer Air Commodore Narendra and Flying Officers P. V. Phillipose and Sunil Kumar Ghosh and Sergeants B. S. Gill and Sergeant D'Souza were ...
On March 2, 1942, Lieutenant Commander Kudō ordered Ikazuchi to rescue 442 survivors from the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Encounter and United States Navy destroyer USS Pope. These ships had been sunk the previous day, along with HMS Exeter, in the Java Sea between Java and Borneo, off the Indonesian port of Soerabaja. The survivors had been ...
Meanwhile, at 12:30 an F1M2 from Chitose sighted the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Pope (DD-225) off Java. [1] A strike by Chitose and Mizuho aircraft as well as floatplanes from the heavy cruisers Ashigara, Myōkō, Nachi, and Haguro sometime between 13:00 and 14:30 inflicted damage that caused flooding and disabled one of Pope′s propeller shafts. [1]