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Showing posts with label Kwajalein Atoll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kwajalein Atoll. Show all posts

Friday, 17 July 2026

American destroyer USS Rhind DD-404 1937-1948

Somers-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Benham-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Sims-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Gridley-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Bagley-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Part of Benham-class (sometimes called as Ellet-class) preceded by Somers-class succeeded by Sims-class. Gibbs&Cox-design. Built between 1936-1939 were 10 vessels built with a limited 1,500 tons standard displacement according to the London Naval Treaty. With similar characteristiscs as the Gridley- and Bagley-classes. Hull number DD 404. Laid down by Philadelphia Navy Yard on 22 September 1937, launched on 28 July 1938, commissioned on 10 November 1939, decommissioned on 26 August 1946, pariticipated in Operation Crossroads off Bikini Atoll, scuttled off Kwajalein on 22 March 1948 and stricken on 5 April 1948. 

Tuesday, 14 July 2026

American destroyer USS Stack DD-406 1937-1948

Somers-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Benham-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Sims-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Gridley-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Bagley-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Part of Benham-class (sometimes called as Ellet-class) preceded by Somers-class succeeded by Sims-class. Gibbs&Cox-design. Built between 1936-1939 were 10 vessels built with a limited 1,500 tons standard displacement according to the London Naval Treaty. With similar characteristiscs as the Gridley- and Bagley-classes. Hull number DD-406. Laid down by Norfolk Navy Yard on 25 June 1937, launched on 5 May 1938, commissioned on 20 November 1939, decommissioned on 29 August 1946, pariticipated in Operation Crossroads off Bikini Atoll, sunk by gunfire off Kwajalein on 24 April 1948 and stricken on 28 May 1948. 

Wednesday, 24 June 2026

American destroyer USS Trippe DD-403 1937-1948

Somers-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Benham-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Sims-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Gridley-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Bagley-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Part of Benham-class (sometimes called as Ellet-class) preceded by Somers-class succeeded by Sims-class. Gibbs&Cox-design. Built between 1936-1939 were 10 vessels built with a limited 1,500 tons standard displacement according to the London Naval Treaty. With similar characteristiscs as the Gridley- and Bagley-classes. Hull number DD-403. Laid down by Boston Navy Yard on 15 April 1937, launched on 14 May 1938, commissioned on 1 November 1939, decommissioned on 28 August 1946, damaged in the atomic Crossroads tests at Bikini Atoll in July 1946, scuttled off Kwajalein on 3 February 1948 and stricken on 19 February 1948.

Friday, 22 May 2026

American destroyer USS Mugford DD-389 1935-1948

Gridley-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Bagley-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Somers-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Part of Bagley-class preceded by Gridley-class succeeded by Somers-class. Totally eight built between 1935-1937. Laid down by Boston Navy Yard on 28 October 1935, launched on 31 October 1936, commissioned on 16 August 1937, decommissioned 29 August 1946 and scuttled off Kwajalein on 22 March 1948. 

Tuesday, 19 May 2026

American destroyer USS Ralph Talbot DD-390 1935-1948

Gridley-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Bagley-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Somers-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Part of Bagley-class preceded by Gridley-class succeeded by Somers-class. Totally eight built between 1935-1937. Laid down by Boston Navy Yard on 28 October 1935, launched on 31 October 1936, commissioned on 14 October , decommissioned 29 August 1946 and scuttled off Kwajalein on 8 March 1948.

Friday, 30 January 2026

German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen 1936-1945 and American USS Prinz Eugen 1945-1946

Admiral Graf Spee, Deutschland-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Design D-class heavy cruiser. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Sistership Admiral Hipper. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Design P-class heavy cruisers. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Part of Admiral Hipper-class preceded by Deutschland-class succeeded by planned P-class. Five planned of which 3 three were completed and 2 cancelled. Contractname Kreuzer J. Laid down by Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany with yard number 564 on 23 April 1936, launched on 22 August 1938, commissioned on, 1 August 1940, decommissioned on 7 May 1945, surrendered on 8 May 1946, handed over to the US Navy on 13 December 945, commissioned on 5 January 1946, decommissioned on 29 August 1946, hull number IX-300, towed to the Kwajalein Atoll after the Operation Crossroads and capsized on 22 December 1946. 

Wednesday, 15 October 2025

Japanese submarine (ex-Submarine No. 59 1921-1924) RO-60 1924-1941

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Type L subclass L4 or RO-60 class. Laid down by Mitsubishi, Kobe, Japan on 5 December 1921, launched on 22 December 1922, completed and commissioned on 17 September 1923, renamed RO-60 on 1 November 1924, last time recommissioned on 15 October 1940, damaged by an American aircraft off Wake Island on 21 December 1941, wrecked on a reef north of Kwajalein Atoll on 29 December 1941, stricken on 15 February 1942 and destroyed after her torpedoes detonated during an air attack later in the war.