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Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity on July 16, 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
The Navy designated Bikini Atoll lagoon as a ship graveyard, then brought in 95 ships, [21] including carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers, submarines, attack transports, and landing ships. The proxy fleet would have comprised the sixth largest naval fleet in the world if the ships had been active.
Ships that were used as targets by the United States Navy during the nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll as part of Operation Crossroads. Pages in category "Ships involved in Operation Crossroads" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.
Following a voyage to Samar, Gilliam moored at Pearl Harbor on 16 February 1946 and prepared to participate in the atomic bomb tests at Bikini atoll in the summer of 1946. On the morning of 1 July 1946, Gilliam, a target ship for Test Able, was the first ship struck by the blast and sunk quickly in Bikini lagoon, badly damaged. [1]
Operation Crossroads: The decommissioned Salmon-class submarine was sunk as a target by an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll. She later was raised for further use as a target ship and sunk again in August 1948. YON-160 United States Navy: Operation Crossroads: The fuel oil barge was sunk as a target by an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll.
Carlisle was then assigned as a target vessel for Operation Crossroads, the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, and was sunk in one of those tests on 1 July 1946. Carlisle was decommissioned at Bikini Atoll and struck from the Navy Register, both dates unknown.
On 25 July, the battleship was sunk by the underwater nuclear test BAKER at Bikini Atoll. Unattenuated by air, the shock was "transmitted directly to underwater hulls", and Arkansas, only 250 yd (230 m) from the epicenter, appeared to have been "crushed as if by a tremendous hammer blow from below". [29]
A Balao-class submarine sunk as a target at Bikini Atoll during the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests. ARDC-13: 6 August 1946 An auxiliary floating drydock scuttled at Bikini Atoll after sustaining damage on 25 July 1946 in the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests. USS Arkansas: 25 July 1946