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The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Govan in Glasgow built Athenia, launching her on 28 January 1922 and completing her in 1923.She measured 13,465 gross register tons (GRT) and 8,118 net register tons (NRT), was 526.3 ft (160.4 m) long between perpendiculars by 66.4 ft (20.2 m) beam and had a depth of 38.1 ft (11.6 m).
It is unclear if the ship was hit by a rogue wave, or was a casualty of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [186] Azburg — The cargo ship was shelled and sunk on 4 April 2022 during the Battle of Mariupol, after being damaged the day before by two Russian missiles. One crew member was injured.
Ukraine claimed Tuesday it has sunk another Russian warship in the Black Sea using high-tech sea drones as Kyiv’s forces continue to take aim at targets deep behind the war’s front line.
Much like battlecruisers, battleships typically sank with large loss of life if and when they were destroyed in battle.The first battleship to be sunk by gunfire alone, [4] the Russian battleship Oslyabya, sank with half of her crew at the Battle of Tsushima when the ship was pummeled by a seemingly endless stream of Japanese shells striking the ship repeatedly, killing crew with direct hits ...
The Ukrainian Special Operations Forces also claimed that 105 others were injured
The cruiser is the largest Russian warship to be sunk in wartime since the end of World War II, and the first Russian flagship sunk since Knyaz Suvorov in 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War. Russia said that 396 crew members had been evacuated, with one sailor killed and 27 missing, but there are unverified reports of more casualties.
Spanish ship San Hermenegildo (1789) HMS Scott (1917) Severomorsk Disaster; USS Shaw (DD-373) USS Shawsheen; Japanese destroyer Shimakaze (1942) Japanese destroyer Shinonome (1927) Japanese destroyer Shirayuki (1928) USS Sims (DD-409) Sinking of the Moskva; South Amboy powder pier explosion; USS St. Lo; German auxiliary cruiser Stier; French ...
The Athina B was a merchant ship. On 21 January 1980 she suffered engine failure in bad weather and beached at the English seaside resort of Brighton , to the east of the town's Palace Pier. The ship was a temporary tourist attraction , with the Volk's Electric Railway opening out of season to serve the large number of sightseers. [ 1 ]