CLASS – BURKE Flight I As Built. Displacement 8373 Tons (Full), Dimensions, 504′ 7″ (oa) x 66′ 11″ x 20′ (Max) Armament 1 x 5″/54 RF, 2 Phalanx 20mm Guns, 90 VLS Cells, 8 Harpoon Missiles, 6 x 12.75″ TT. Machinery, 100,000 SHP; 4 GE LM-2500 Gas Turbines, 2 screws Speed, 30+ Knots, Range 4400 NM@ 20 Knots, Crew 370. Operational and Building Data Laid down by Bath Iron Works, Bath ME on December 6 1988. Launched September 16 1989 and commissioned July 4 1991. Active unit of the US. Navy. Homeported at Norfolk Virginia.
Named after Arleigh Albert Burke was born on 19 October 1901 on a farm near Boulder, Colorado.
Patch of USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51)
One thing the Arleigh Burke class Guided Missile Destroyers (DDG) were built on the Aegis combat system.
Description The AEGIS Weapon System (AWS) is a centralized, automated, command-and-control (C2) and weapons control system that was designed as a total weapon system, from detection to kill. The heart of the system is the AN/SPY, an advanced, automatic detect and track, multi-function phased-array radar. This high-powered radar is able to perform search, track and missile guidance functions simultaneously, with a track capacity of more than 100 targets. The first Engineering Development Model (EDM-1) of the SPY-1 was installed in the test ship USS NORTON SOUND (AVM 1) in 1973.
CLASS – FLETCHER As Built. Displacement 2924 Tons (Full), Dimensions, 376′ 5″(oa) x 39′ 7″ x 13′ 9″ (Max) Armament 5 x 5″/38AA, 10 x 40mm, 7 x 20mm AA, 10 x 21″ tt.(2×5). Machinery, 60,000 SHP; Westinghouse Turbines, 2 screws Speed, 38 Knots, Range 6500 NM@ 15 Knots, Crew 273. Operational and Building Data Laid down by Bethlehem Steel, San Francisco. October 10 1942. Launched April 4 1943 and commissioned September 30 1943. Decommissioned January 10 1946 and recommissioned July 6 1951. Decommissioned January 7 1965. Stricken December 1 1974. Fate Preserved as memorial June 21 1977, Berthed at Buffalo, New York.
CLASS – ATLANTA Displacement 6,000 Tons, Dimensions, 541′ 0″ (oa) x 53′ 2″ x 26′ 6″ (Max) Armament 16 x 5″/38AA, 16 x 1.1″, 16 x 40mm, 8 x 20mm, 8 x 21″ tt. Armor, 3 3/4″ Belt, 1 1/4″ Turrets, 1 1/4″ Deck, 2 1/2″ Conning Tower. Machinery, 75,000 SHP; Geared Turbines, 2 screws Speed, 32.5 Knots, Crew 650. Operational and Building Data Ordered 25 APR 1939 Keel laid on 27 MAY 1940 by the Federal Shipbuilding Co., Kearny, NJ. Launched 25 OCT 1941 Commissioned 14 FEB 1942 Fate: Torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-26 on 13 NOV 1942 while withdrawing after the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.
This ship becomes important in the future, for the USS The Sullivans. All five brothers served on the same ship.
USS The Sullivans
The USS Sullivans was a Fletcher class destroyer. now currently a Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer. Operated by the US Navy.
The Samuel B. Roberts was called a Destroyer Escort, now known as the modern day frigate. The Keel was laid down on DEC 6,1943 in Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Texas. Operated by the U.S. Navy, Jan 20,1944 Launched and Christened, Sponsored by Mrs. Samuel B. Roberts. Named after Samuel B. Roberts Jr. killed on Guadalcanal on Sep 28,1942. Commissioned on April 28, 1944
Operational awards
Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign: N – T – I – K
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Precedence of awards is from top to bottom Top Row: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive) Second Row: Presidential Unit Citation – American Campaign Medal – Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 1 star Third Row: WWII Victory Medal – Philippine Republic Presidential Unit Citation (retroactive) – Philippine Liberation Medal
Operational History
7 July 1944: DE 413 sails from Boston’s Navy Yard. While workers gave the hull an undulating two-tone camouflage paint job and installed a raft of new equipment, Copeland had deftly used the wartime bustle to bulk up the ship’s roster. When his pharmacist’s mate took 40 crewmembers down to the naval hospital for tetanus boosters and the like, the skipper sent along a yeoman to perform the legal, if procedurally dubious, step of transferring them to the medical facility for the duration of their treatment. Meanwhile, the ship’s executive officer scooted off to the yard’s personnel office, where he brandished paperwork showing the ship to be short dozens of sailors — and slated to sail in four days! Soon, the Roberts welcomed aboard 50 extra seamen, plus the shipmates who had served a few hours of their careers formally attached to the hospital.
12 October 1944: Now part of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, the greatest armada ever assembled, DE 413 departs Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands. The fleet’s destination is Leyte Gulf, there to invade the Philippines and cut off Japanese access to Indochinese oil.
25 October 1944: With the invasion still underway to the south, DE 413 and a light force of small aircraft carriers and small escorts take up station off the island of Samar. When Adm. Bull Halsey’s Third Fleet is lured northward after a decoy force of empty-decked aircraft carriers, the “Taffy 3” flotilla is the only thing standing between the U.S. troopships and the Japanese Center Force, a heavy squadron built around the most powerful battleship in the world,Yamato.
EVENTS OF 25 OCTOBER 1944
0645: Lookouts on the escort carrier Gambier Bay, the flagship of Taffy 3 leader Rear Adm. Clifton Sprague, spots antiaircraft fire from Adm. Kurita’s Center Force.
0648: The Center Force opens fire on Taffy 3.
0701: Sprague begs for help in a clear-text message giving the positions of his fleet and the oncoming enemy.
0705: DE 413 and the other “small boys” — four destroyers and two destroyer escorts — begin making smoke to hide Taffy 3’s escort carriers.
0706: Taffy 3 hides in a rain squall. But neither the weather nor the pinpricks from the ill-armed carrier planes deter the Japanese force, which bears in at up to 30 merciless knots, hounding the thin-skinned carriers with shells the size of tree trunks and the weight of small cars.
0716: Convinced his force could not survive such a bombardment for five more minutes, Sprague orders DE 413 and the other small boys to attack the Japanese battleships and cruisers. It was a suicide mission. None of the small boys mounted a gun that could pierce battleship armor, so their only weapon with a prayer of effectiveness was the torpedo. The DDs had ten apiece; the DEs merely three. DE 413 skipper Copeland tells his crew that they will soon enter “a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival could not be expected, during which time we would do what damage we could.”
0720: Destroyer Johnston (DD 557) opens 5-inch fire at nine miles.
0725:Johnston launches torpedoes at 10,000 yards, scores hit on heavy cruiser Kumano. Roberts opens 5-inch fire.
0730:Johnston takes hits from three 14-inch and three 6-inch shells, which knock out one engine and cut speed to 17 knots.
0741:Gambier Bay opens fire on pursuers with 5-inch stern gun.
0742: Sprague orders second torpedo attack. Roberts and two other DEs engage heavy cruisers.
0743: Taffy 3 carriers emerge from squall, run south at 17.5 knots.
0755:Roberts hit.
0810: Destroyer Hoel (DD 533) hit by Japanese shell, followed by 40 more in 20 minutes. Gambier Bay hit.
0830: Roberts launches torpedos. Hoel abandons ship.
0842:Roberts takes three 8-inch hits. For a time, the aft 5-inch gun kept firing, its 10-man crew laboriously cranking a powerless mount into position and manually pumping rounds into the ever-hotter breech. At last, a powder charge cooked off, shattering the mount and killing most of the men around it. The leader of the gun crew, Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class Paul Henry Carr, was ripped open from neck to groin, and died holding the magazine’s final shell, begging for someone to finish loading the gun. In 35 minutes of firing, with and without electrical power, Carr’s gun crew had pumped out 324 rounds.
Generally close to the two others by her appearance, she showed four funnels (last fake), displaced 46,328 GRT, was 270 m long for 28.2 wide and was propelled by two three-blade wing propellers and one four-blade centre propeller. There were 24 double-ended and five single-ended boilers feeding two reciprocating steam engines for the wing propellers, and a low-pressure turbine for the centre propeller, total output was 46,000 HP. Nominal top speed when cruising was 21 kn (39 km/h; 24 mph) for a maximum of 24 kn (44 km/h; 28 mph).
The RMS Titanic is part of a class named called the Olympic class liners. Ran by the white star line a passenger/cargo (mail). Three ships in the class The first one RMS Olympic,RMS Titanic,HMHS Britannic. Only one survived in the class the RMS Olympic. For people who does not know what RMS and HMHS means. RMS means or stands for Royal Mail Ship. HMHS means or stands for His/Her Majesty’s Hospital Ship.
RMS Titanic was the first one of the class to sink. HMHS Britannic was the second to sink. The RMS Olympic survived until she was scrapped in 1935. By this time the White Star Line and Cunard has been saved by the British government. The only thing was both companies have to merge becoming the Cunard White Star Line.
logo of Cunard White Star Line
RMS Titanic was built in the height of the liner era. At this point the liners on the transatlantic voyage had a high class feel on them. These liners would take people from one place to the other. The titanic was claimed to be unsinkable. Even if RMS Titanic was built with all the safety standards of that time. The titanic would still be able to sink. It took a 1 mile for titanic to stop.
What sank the RMS Titanic
A combination of going full speed (21 knots), a fire in one of the boiler rooms a few weeks before her maiden voyage, not enough life boats, and a under trained crew.
Nevada Class Battleship: Displacement 27,500 Tons, Dimensions, 583′ (oa) x 95′ 3″ x 29′ 7″ (Max) Armament 10 x 14″/45 21 x 5″/51, 2 x 21″ tt. Armor, 13 1/2″ Belt, 18″ Triple Turrets, 16″ Dual turrets, 3″ Second (armor) Deck, 2 1/2″ Third (splinter) Deck 16″ Conning Tower. Machinery, 24,800 IHP; 2 vertical, Triple expansion engines, 2 screws. Speed, 20.5 Knots, Crew 864.
Design of the Oklahoma design of the Oklahoma
The Oklahoma gets put in the battleships of the Sixth battle squadron
Battleships of the Sixth Battle Squadron (anchored in column in the left half of the photograph) included the: Florida (BB-30) Utah (BB-31) Wyoming (BB-32) Arkansas (BB-33) New York (BB-34) Texas (BB-35) Nevada (BB-36) Oklahoma (BB-37) Pennsylvania (BB-38) & Arizona (BB-39) at one time or another.
Gouache on board painting by the artist Tom Freeman entitled Last Torpedo. The Oklahoma (BB-37) starts to capsize. The ship had no watertight integrity, as all portholes and watertight doors were open for Captain’s inspection when the Japanese attacked.Maryland (BB-46) is at left, and Tennessee (BB-43) is behind and to the left of the Oklahoma, and West Virginia (BB-48) is directly behind her and sinking.
Now to December 7, 1941 or for us american’s the day of pearl harbor. The USS Oklahoma “the Okie” sank. Then savaged to clear up battleship row. The USS Oklahoma gets transported to San Diego California. While in root the lines towing the Oklahoma had mysteriously snapped. The USS Oklahoma sunk in her final resting place somewhere between pearl harbor and San Diego. The Location of the Oklahoma is unknown.
Ordered in 1935 to 1937, launched in 1939 and 1941, the Bismarck was actually a class of warship named the Bismarck class battleship. Only two in the class One of them was named Bismarck and the other named Tirpitz. The Bismarck was considered as a fast battleship in fact both were considered fast battleship. So Bismarck the ship that tried and failed on breaking into the Atlantic and sank HMS Hood. Which got her sent down to the bottom of the Atlantic. The Bismarck only had training as the only experience the crew had on the ship. That mission to break out to the Atlantic was the first assignment that the ship had undertook as being in active service.
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The HMS hood was laid down on 1 September 1916 two years before WW1 ended
The HMS Hood had a mostly peaceful naval career from 1921 to 1941. HMS Hood had a good long life span. Visiting major ports around the world. When 1920-1929 HMS Hood became the flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Rodger Keyes in command of the Battle Cruiser Squadron,Atlantic fleet. HMS Hood over 1920-1929,1930-39 career gets multiple commanders. Participating in multiple races and training drills. Multiple Real Admirals assuming command over the years. HMS Hood loses flagship for a little bit. 1930-1939 HMS Hood was reviewed by His majesty King George VI. Regaining the title of flagship of the Battle Cruiser Squadron,Home fleet. Commanded by William J. Whitworth. 1939-1941 HMS Hood takes part in World War 2 just the beginning.
Jump to May 17 1941 just a couple of days before her terrible fate. By the German battleship Bismarck. HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales are sent out by the British high command. Searching for the Bismarck. The battleship Bismarck a accompanied by the German cruiser Prinz Eugun. Both German warship were being tracked by a British cruiser. The two British battleships and the german battleship Bismarck opened fire. A short battle started and ended with HMS Hood “Mighty Hood”. The Hood was directly hit and blew up. Crew of 1,418 only 3 survived the explosion.
Specifications
Dimensions
242 m long, 27.4 m wide, 9.7 m draft (full load).
Displacement
42 670 tonnes standard -45 200 tonnes Fully Loaded
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