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PACIFIC OCEAN (July 28, 2016) The littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) and the People's Liberation Army (Navy) guided-missile destroyer Xian (153) transit in formation during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2016. Twenty-six nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 30 to Aug. 4, in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2016 is the 25th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ryan J. Batchelder/Released)
PACIFIC OCEAN (July 28, 2016) The littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) and the People's Liberation Army (Navy) guided-missile destroyer Xian (153) transit in formation during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2016. Twenty-six nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 30 to Aug. 4, in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2016 is the 25th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ryan J. Batchelder/Released)
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France:
A 305 mm gun is removed from the French battleship Mirabeau, 1919; the battleship had ran aground off the Crimean coast and had to be lightened to be refloated
Dunkerque, her class were the first capital ships to be built by the French Navy after World War I.
A 305 mm gun is removed from the French battleship Mirabeau, 1919; the battleship had ran aground off the Crimean coast and had to be lightened to be refloated
Dunkerque, her class were the first capital ships to be built by the French Navy after World War I.
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Italy:
A floating target being towed by the armoured cruiser Francesco Ferruccio, between 1905 and 1909
Detail of the side of one of light cruiser Alberto di Giussano's 152mm turrets, with a copy of the mythical warrior's statue and his rallying cry "...and win we must"
Two Soldati-class destroyers; Alpino in the lead
A floating target being towed by the armoured cruiser Francesco Ferruccio, between 1905 and 1909
Detail of the side of one of light cruiser Alberto di Giussano's 152mm turrets, with a copy of the mythical warrior's statue and his rallying cry "...and win we must"
Two Soldati-class destroyers; Alpino in the lead
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RN:
HMS Electra, an E Class destroyer which rescued the three survivors of HMS Hood, led the first convoy to Russia, rescued 571 men off HMS Repulse at Kuantan and was sunk at the Battle of the Java Sea in a lone suicide attack against the Japanese fleet to buy time for HMS Exeter to escape.
"At 5:25pm the de Ruyter flashed an order to the British destroyers: COUNTERATTACK.
Too scattered to mount a coordinated torpedo attack the Electra, Encounter and Jupiter nonetheless all charged, supported by the Witte de With. The skipper of the Electra Commander C. W. May announced to his crew 'The Japanese are mounting a strong torpedo attack on Exeter so we are going through the smoke to counter attack'. Commander May was the epitome of calm, but his veteran crew knew the Electra's hour had come. The destroyer now charged into the smokescreen she had just laid and came out on the other side to find the light cruiser, the Jintsu and eight overstrength destroyers operating in two parallel columns of four following their light cruiser.
They were alone. 'All our friends had vanished,' noted senior Electra survivor Lt. Commander T. J. Cain. 'We were naked to our enemy. We were beyond the smoke.' The minds of many of the the destroyer's crew were filled with chilling thoughts of dying alone, so far from home. But only for a moment. 'We cursed the Nip [sic] down to the most unmentionable depths, then jumped to our duties as the party opened and the salvoes tossed the waters into storm.' The Electra was now taking on the entire Japanese 2nd Destroyer flotilla. ... 'It was a fierce encounter, tooth and claw,' wrote T. J. Cain. Electra had had an amazing wartime career serving with the Hood and Prince of Wales in their ill-fated duel with the Bismarck and rescuing the only three survivors from the Hood. She had also rescued the survivors of the Repulse off Malaya. Now the proud Electra was in the fight of her life. Facing ten Japanese destroyers as well as the ubiquitous light cruiser Jintsu neither May nor his crew cared about the odds. The British destroyer was magnificent 'Standing up to the punishment in the best traditional manner' to quote Cain. 'Time after time had [May] bought Electra twisting like a hare into the spot where the last salvo had dropped, thus causing confusion among the Nips as they adjusted their ranges in accordance with the previous fall of shot.' Meanwhile she was dishing out all the fire her 5in guns [sic - actually 4.7in guns] could manage. She got herself in a gun duel with the destroyer Asagumo at a range of 5,000yd ripping her with 4.7in shellfire and scoring a direct hit on her engine room that left the Japanese destroyer dead in the water.
But Electra's charmed life could not last forever, it ended with three hits in rapid succession from the destroyer Minegumo. The first cut all communications from the bridge to the rest of the ship, and severed the communications link between the main gun director and the guns. The second hit the main switchboard and wrecked the electrical system in the forward part of the ship. But the third was the most damaging, detonating in the engine room, shattering a boiler and the pipes to the steering gear. The destroyer staggered to a stop with a slight list to port.
No longer able to avoid the avalanche of shells, the Electra fought on as long as she could. She continued landing shells on the Asagumo. She scored hits on the destroyers Tokitsukaze and Minegumo. She even hit the Jintsu with one shell, killing one and wounding four. But unable to move the destroyer was in real trouble. The engineer reported that he could have propulsion restored in a half hour. He wouldn't get half a minute.
The Japanese surrounded the Electra and smothered her in gunfire, her principal tormentors being the Asagumo, the Minegumo, and the Jintsu. first the Electra's A gun was knocked out by a direct hit, then a fire began under B gun and took her offline. The searchlight platform was smashed and a fire started aft. One of the aft turrets (X or Y) exploded, and the other ran out of ammunition. In desperation the Electra launched her torpedoes at the Minegumo but since she was stopped she could not get them to spread and all of them missed. Pounded into a wreck, the Electra slowly foundered as the Japanese passed her by, deeming her finished. Commander May gave the order to abandon ship, but ignored the exhortations of his crew to abandon it with them. He was last seen waving from the bridge as the destroyer rolled over to port and sank at around 6:00pm, the White Ensign still flying defiantly from her mast."
HMS Electra, an E Class destroyer which rescued the three survivors of HMS Hood, led the first convoy to Russia, rescued 571 men off HMS Repulse at Kuantan and was sunk at the Battle of the Java Sea in a lone suicide attack against the Japanese fleet to buy time for HMS Exeter to escape.
"At 5:25pm the de Ruyter flashed an order to the British destroyers: COUNTERATTACK.
Too scattered to mount a coordinated torpedo attack the Electra, Encounter and Jupiter nonetheless all charged, supported by the Witte de With. The skipper of the Electra Commander C. W. May announced to his crew 'The Japanese are mounting a strong torpedo attack on Exeter so we are going through the smoke to counter attack'. Commander May was the epitome of calm, but his veteran crew knew the Electra's hour had come. The destroyer now charged into the smokescreen she had just laid and came out on the other side to find the light cruiser, the Jintsu and eight overstrength destroyers operating in two parallel columns of four following their light cruiser.
They were alone. 'All our friends had vanished,' noted senior Electra survivor Lt. Commander T. J. Cain. 'We were naked to our enemy. We were beyond the smoke.' The minds of many of the the destroyer's crew were filled with chilling thoughts of dying alone, so far from home. But only for a moment. 'We cursed the Nip [sic] down to the most unmentionable depths, then jumped to our duties as the party opened and the salvoes tossed the waters into storm.' The Electra was now taking on the entire Japanese 2nd Destroyer flotilla. ... 'It was a fierce encounter, tooth and claw,' wrote T. J. Cain. Electra had had an amazing wartime career serving with the Hood and Prince of Wales in their ill-fated duel with the Bismarck and rescuing the only three survivors from the Hood. She had also rescued the survivors of the Repulse off Malaya. Now the proud Electra was in the fight of her life. Facing ten Japanese destroyers as well as the ubiquitous light cruiser Jintsu neither May nor his crew cared about the odds. The British destroyer was magnificent 'Standing up to the punishment in the best traditional manner' to quote Cain. 'Time after time had [May] bought Electra twisting like a hare into the spot where the last salvo had dropped, thus causing confusion among the Nips as they adjusted their ranges in accordance with the previous fall of shot.' Meanwhile she was dishing out all the fire her 5in guns [sic - actually 4.7in guns] could manage. She got herself in a gun duel with the destroyer Asagumo at a range of 5,000yd ripping her with 4.7in shellfire and scoring a direct hit on her engine room that left the Japanese destroyer dead in the water.
But Electra's charmed life could not last forever, it ended with three hits in rapid succession from the destroyer Minegumo. The first cut all communications from the bridge to the rest of the ship, and severed the communications link between the main gun director and the guns. The second hit the main switchboard and wrecked the electrical system in the forward part of the ship. But the third was the most damaging, detonating in the engine room, shattering a boiler and the pipes to the steering gear. The destroyer staggered to a stop with a slight list to port.
No longer able to avoid the avalanche of shells, the Electra fought on as long as she could. She continued landing shells on the Asagumo. She scored hits on the destroyers Tokitsukaze and Minegumo. She even hit the Jintsu with one shell, killing one and wounding four. But unable to move the destroyer was in real trouble. The engineer reported that he could have propulsion restored in a half hour. He wouldn't get half a minute.
The Japanese surrounded the Electra and smothered her in gunfire, her principal tormentors being the Asagumo, the Minegumo, and the Jintsu. first the Electra's A gun was knocked out by a direct hit, then a fire began under B gun and took her offline. The searchlight platform was smashed and a fire started aft. One of the aft turrets (X or Y) exploded, and the other ran out of ammunition. In desperation the Electra launched her torpedoes at the Minegumo but since she was stopped she could not get them to spread and all of them missed. Pounded into a wreck, the Electra slowly foundered as the Japanese passed her by, deeming her finished. Commander May gave the order to abandon ship, but ignored the exhortations of his crew to abandon it with them. He was last seen waving from the bridge as the destroyer rolled over to port and sank at around 6:00pm, the White Ensign still flying defiantly from her mast."
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HNLMS Evertsen
From 1940 to 1942, she served as a convoy escort, mainly in the Dutch East Indies. At the end of February 1942, in the aftermath of the Battle of the Java Sea, Evertsen (Luitenant ter zee W. M. De Vries, commanding), was ordered to escape from Tanjung Priok to Tjilatjap via the Sunda Strait, in company with the Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth and the American heavy cruiser USS Houston. Perth and Houston departed at 19:00 on 28 February, but Evertsen was delayed, leaving port two hours later.
The route through the Strait had earlier been reported clear by Allied intelligence, but unfortunately a Japanese invasion fleet with its close covering force of two heavy cruisers, one light cruiser and nine destroyers had started landing troops that night in Banten Bay, at the eastern end of Sunda Strait. Perth and Houston ran into this force, and in a ferocious night action that ended after midnight on 1 March, both ships were sunk.
Evertsen was attempting to catch up with Houston and Perth. Her crew sighted the gunfire of the main action, and managed to evade the Japanese main force. However, Evertsen was then engaged by two Japanese destroyers (Murakumo and Shirakumo) in the Strait, and on fire and in a sinking condition, grounded herself on a reef near Sebuku Island. The surviving crew abandoned ship just as the aft magazine exploded and blew off the stern; they were taken prisoner by the Japanese on 9–10 March 1942.
HNLMS Evertsen
From 1940 to 1942, she served as a convoy escort, mainly in the Dutch East Indies. At the end of February 1942, in the aftermath of the Battle of the Java Sea, Evertsen (Luitenant ter zee W. M. De Vries, commanding), was ordered to escape from Tanjung Priok to Tjilatjap via the Sunda Strait, in company with the Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth and the American heavy cruiser USS Houston. Perth and Houston departed at 19:00 on 28 February, but Evertsen was delayed, leaving port two hours later.
The route through the Strait had earlier been reported clear by Allied intelligence, but unfortunately a Japanese invasion fleet with its close covering force of two heavy cruisers, one light cruiser and nine destroyers had started landing troops that night in Banten Bay, at the eastern end of Sunda Strait. Perth and Houston ran into this force, and in a ferocious night action that ended after midnight on 1 March, both ships were sunk.
Evertsen was attempting to catch up with Houston and Perth. Her crew sighted the gunfire of the main action, and managed to evade the Japanese main force. However, Evertsen was then engaged by two Japanese destroyers (Murakumo and Shirakumo) in the Strait, and on fire and in a sinking condition, grounded herself on a reef near Sebuku Island. The surviving crew abandoned ship just as the aft magazine exploded and blew off the stern; they were taken prisoner by the Japanese on 9–10 March 1942.
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Italy:
After Italy’s withdrawal from the war on September 9, 1943, the bulk of the Italian fleet, including the battleship Roma, left the Italian city of La Spezia and went to Malta for internment.
The movement of the ships was controlled by reconnaissance aircraft of the Allied aviation. At 1533hrs the same day, an Italian squadron near the island of Sardinia was attacked by eleven German Dornier Do.217 bombers, based at the airfield in southern France. Luftwaffe aircraft attacked with new guided bombs, the FX-1400.
Roma was hit by two bombs with an interval of 10 minutes. As a result of the second hit, there was a detonation of the ammunition of the main magazine (700 tons of ammunition). At 1618hrs the ship broke in two and sank, taking 2/3 of her crew with her
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After Italy’s withdrawal from the war on September 9, 1943, the bulk of the Italian fleet, including the battleship Roma, left the Italian city of La Spezia and went to Malta for internment.
The movement of the ships was controlled by reconnaissance aircraft of the Allied aviation. At 1533hrs the same day, an Italian squadron near the island of Sardinia was attacked by eleven German Dornier Do.217 bombers, based at the airfield in southern France. Luftwaffe aircraft attacked with new guided bombs, the FX-1400.
Roma was hit by two bombs with an interval of 10 minutes. As a result of the second hit, there was a detonation of the ammunition of the main magazine (700 tons of ammunition). At 1618hrs the ship broke in two and sank, taking 2/3 of her crew with her
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RN:
County-class heavy cruiser HMS London (69) as seen from Tribal Class destroyer HMS Ashanti, 1942
Converted ferry, turned auxiliary anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Tynwald
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On 12 November 1942, Tynwald was hit by a torpedo fired by the Italian submarine, Argo. She had been standing by the monitor Roberts, which was on fire and badly damaged. Tynwald went down in 7 fathoms (13 m) of water, her wreck position is given as LAT:36°51'N LON:005°04'E.
Survivors were rescued by Roberts and the corvette HMS Samphire. Three officers and seven ratings were listed as casualties.
County-class heavy cruiser HMS London (69) as seen from Tribal Class destroyer HMS Ashanti, 1942
Converted ferry, turned auxiliary anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Tynwald
Prior to conversion:
On 12 November 1942, Tynwald was hit by a torpedo fired by the Italian submarine, Argo. She had been standing by the monitor Roberts, which was on fire and badly damaged. Tynwald went down in 7 fathoms (13 m) of water, her wreck position is given as LAT:36°51'N LON:005°04'E.
Survivors were rescued by Roberts and the corvette HMS Samphire. Three officers and seven ratings were listed as casualties.
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USSR:
Launch of Project 949 Granit/Oscar I class SSGN, probably Arkhangelsk (K-525). On the right almost finished Project 941 Akula/Typhoon class SSBN TK-208, later renamed to Dmitri Donskoi (TK-208)
Project 1144 Orlan/Kirov class nuclear powered missile cruiser lead ship Kirov towering above the buildings of Baltiysky Zavod JSC shipyard in Leningrad shortly before launch in 1977.
Launch of Project 949 Granit/Oscar I class SSGN, probably Arkhangelsk (K-525). On the right almost finished Project 941 Akula/Typhoon class SSBN TK-208, later renamed to Dmitri Donskoi (TK-208)
Project 1144 Orlan/Kirov class nuclear powered missile cruiser lead ship Kirov towering above the buildings of Baltiysky Zavod JSC shipyard in Leningrad shortly before launch in 1977.
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USN:
USS Idaho (BB-42) (foreground) and USS Texas (BB-35) Steaming at the rear of the battle line, during Battle Fleet practice off the California coast, circa 1930. Idaho's four triple 14/50 gun turrets are trained on the starboard beam. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
USS Idaho (BB-42) (foreground) and USS Texas (BB-35) Steaming at the rear of the battle line, during Battle Fleet practice off the California coast, circa 1930. Idaho's four triple 14/50 gun turrets are trained on the starboard beam. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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