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While the crew tried to repair the ship, Finnish coastal artillery opened fire and Iosif Stalin took a hit aft from a 12 in (305 mm) shell, which caused a large explosion in the ammunition storage. 1,740 were rescued from the sinking ship by the escorting minesweepers, (Nos. 205, 211, 215 and 217) and a further five patrol boats from the convoy ...
The ship was one of nine Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1044 hulls known as "Laker, Manitowoc Type" ordered from the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The yard is known to have completed six hulls with Coquina , yard hull number 100, being completed in April 1919 assigned official number 217871 and signal letters LQRK.
The wartime sinking of the German Wilhelm Gustloff in January 1945 in World War II by a Soviet Navy submarine, with an estimated loss of about 9,400 people, remains the deadliest isolated maritime disaster ever, excluding such events as the destruction of entire fleets like the 1274 and 1281 storms that are said to have devastated Kublai Khan's ...
The Laconia incident was a series of events surrounding the sinking of a British passenger ship in the Atlantic Ocean on 12 September 1942, during World War II, and a subsequent aerial attack on German and Italian submarines involved in rescue attempts.
The sinking was one of the worst maritime disasters in the Second World War, and one of the worst maritime disasters in history involving a children's ship. [4] While only 54 of 112 children of the Titanic died, [5] 98 of 123 children on the City of Benares were lost. [6]
NOAA and its research partners shared the first glimpses in decades of a German submarine U-576 downed off the coast of North Carolina during World War II.
MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea while evacuating civilians and military personnel from East Prussia and the German-occupied Baltic states, and German military personnel from Gotenhafen (), as the Red Army advanced.
The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinking after being torpedoed by a German submarine in November 1941, the assisting destroyer HMS Legion was sunk in 1942. This is a list of Royal Navy ships and personnel lost during World War II, from 3 September 1939 to 1 October 1945. See also List of ships of the Royal Navy.