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Typhoon Cobra, also known as the Typhoon of 1944 or Halsey's Typhoon (named after Admiral William Halsey Jr.), was the United States Navy designation for a powerful tropical cyclone that struck the United States Pacific Fleet in December 1944, during World War II. The storm sank three destroyers, killed 790 sailors, damaged 9 other warships ...
On December 17, 1944, 80 years ago today, the U.S. Navy's Third Fleet Fast Carrier Task Force was in a refueling operation several hundred miles east of the Philippines, in one of the world's most ...
The 1944 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1944, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean .
Typhoon Cobra: The Farragut-class destroyer foundered in the Philippine Sea) with the loss of 98 of her 160 crew. Forty-one survivors were rescued by USS Tabberer ( United States Navy), the rest of the survivors rescued on 20 December. Leverkusen
Naval Base Ulithi's Sorlen Island and the north anchorage of Ulithi Atoll in late 1944 Naval Base Ulithi in the Caroline Islands, north of the Melanesia Islands A map of the Federated States of Micronesia Micronesia is one of three major areas in the Pacific Ocean, along with Polynesia and Melanesia Mississinewa sinking at Ulithi after a Kaiten manned torpedo hit Mississinewa sinking on 20 ...
During Typhoon Cobra also known as "Halsey's Typhoon" on 17 December 1944, with winds reaching one hundred knots (115 mph) and 80 foot (24 m) waves off the coast of Luzon in the Philippines, Steiger was on deck, having secured himself with rope and flattening himself as waves engulfed the ship. [4]
Fueling operations with the fast, carrier strike-force in the Philippine Sea began on 17 December 1944, but increasingly heavy seas forced cancellation later that day. The fueling group became engulfed next day in an approaching typhoon, designated Cobra, with barometers falling to very low levels and winds increasing above 90 knots.
Continuing her support of the Philippines advance, Cowpens' planes struck Luzon repeatedly during December. During the disastrous Typhoon Cobra on 18 December, Cowpens lost a man: ship's air officer Lieutenant Commander Robert Price, several planes, and some equipment, but skillful work by her crew prevented major damage, and she reached Ulithi ...