Category: Naval History

The third U.S. Navy ship named for the peak that rises in the White Mountains in Merrimack County, N.H. III (CV-33: displacement 30,800; length 888′; beam 93′; extreme width 136′;…

HMS President, a First World War Q-ship (for antisubmarine patrols), has been found to no longer structurally sound, and will be heading for scrap in Erith, Kent this month. The…

SAS Bloemfontein was an Algerine class minesweeper launched by Collingwood Shipyards Ltd. Collingwood, Ontario,in 1945 for the Royal Navy’s HMS Rosamund . Employed in minesweeping duty in European waters until…

(AV-13: displacement 13,635; length 540’5″; beam 69’3″; draft 22’3″; speed 19.2 knots; complement 684; armament 4 5-inch, 20 40-millimeter, 20 20-millimeter; class Currituck) A sound near Sitka, Alaska. Puget Sound…

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Service History The Dido-class light cruisers were ordered in 1937. They were to be fitted with five twin turrets with the new dual-purpose (surface- and anti-aircraft) 5.25-inch (133-mm) guns. In…

Baekdusan (PC-701), a submarine hunter, was Korea’s first warship. The former USS PC823 was purchased by the Navy on October 17, 1949, with money donated by naval officers and citizens…

HMNZS Endeavour (ex-USSNamakagon) departed San Francisco in October, 1962 and arrived in Auckland via Pearl Harbor the following month. Work to complete her Antarctic conversion then began at Devonport dockyard.…

On 6 June 1971, around 4:00–4:07 a.m. (pre-dawn), French Navy destroyer Surcouf was navigating in a loose formation in the Mediterranean Sea off Cartagena, Spain. Soviet oil tanker General Busharov…

By Steven Johns During the Vietnam war, there was a mass movement of resistance to the war amongst US troops. In addition to the unrest amongst ground troops, there was…