American destroyer USS Tucker DD-374 1934-1942

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USS Aylwin of the Farragut-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

USS Mahan. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Gridley-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Part of Mahan-class (18 completed) preceded by Porter-class succeeded by Gridley-class. Improved version of the Farragut-class. Laid down by Norfolk Navy Yard on 15 August 1934, launched on 26 February 1936, commissioned on 23 July 1936, struck an American mine and sunk off Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides on 4 August 1942 and stricken on 2 December 1944

Japanese submarine sunk at Vila Harbor, Efate Islands according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 9 August 1942

An item reported that on 5 August a Japanese submarine at Vila Harbor, Efate Islands, New Hebrides [Anglo-French condominium, nowadaysVanutua] was sunk.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 242 dated 9 August 1942

Australian sloop HMS Una visited the Dutch East Indies In 1915

An item reported that the British mother ship for destroyers Una (1) visited the Dutch East Indies harbour Macassar between 13-14 November 1915.(2)

Notes
1. The Australian sloop HMAS Una? This was the former German motor launched Komet captured by Australian infantry and commissioned as a patrol and general purpose vessel on 17 November 1915, serving around New Guinea, New Britain, New Hebrides and Malayan waters, decommissioned on  39 June 1920 and sold on 27 January 1925 to the Pilot Office. Launched at the shipyard Bremer Vulkan, Bremen-Vegesack on 4 June 1911.
2. The Dutch newspaper De Sumatra post dated 16 November 1915 reported the departure a day earlier of the British auxiliary cruiser Una from Macassar. Outside the roads were 4 Australian warships waiting for her. The squadron commander visited the Dutch authorities. The edition dated 15 November reported the arrival on Saturday and her intended departure tomorrow. Again she was called a British auxiliary cruiser. Another Dutch newspaper Bataviaasch nieuwsblad dated 15th November confirmed the latter. Perhaps she was involved in the Choncho affaire. The Dutch newspaper Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië dated 22 November 1915 explained more or less the visit of the French and Australian warships in the waters of Dutch East Indies in November 1915. The Kersaint is called a gunboat. In Saturday night [20th} was south of Bali, Dutch East Indies the American 12.000 tons cargo ship Choncho hold and bought to Singapore. She was loaded with arms and ammunition with an estimated of 5 million pound sterling. Suspected was that the arms were needed for an attack from the south on the Suez Canal. Another Dutch newspaper De Sumatra Post dated 22 November corrects her tonnage, in stead of 12.000 tons was she 7.000 tons. She had a Turkish crew although onboard were the 2nd, 3rd and 4th officer and 3 crewmembers of the German steamship Offenbach on board.

Source
Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Zeemacht 1916-1917.