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Juneau spent her first year of commissioned service in operations along the Atlantic seaboard and Caribbean. Prior to the Korean War , she deployed three times in the Mediterranean . The ship cleared New York on 16 April 1947, and joined the 6th Fleet at Trieste on 2 May where she aided in stabilizing the unresolved question of territorial ...
USS Juneau (CL-52) was an Atlanta-class light cruiser commissioned February 1942 and sunk eight months later in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal This "Juneau incident" is particularly notable for the loss of the five Sullivan brothers; USS Juneau (CL-119) was a Juneau-class light cruiser, commissioned 1946, active in the Korean War, and scrapped ...
As the Des Moines Register marks its 175th year, today's historic front page is from Jan. 12, 1943: Five Sullivan brothers die as ship sinks in WWII Historic front page from the Des Moines ...
The Sullivan brothers on board the cruiser USS Juneau at her commissioning: Joe, Frank, Al, Matt, and George (14 February 1942) The Sullivan brothers were five brothers from Waterloo, Iowa who served together on the light cruiser USS Juneau. They were all killed in action when Juneau served in the Naval battle of Guadalcanal, November 13, 1942.
A Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF) is a facility owned by the United States Navy as a holding facility for decommissioned naval vessels, pending determination of their final fate. All ships in these facilities are inactive, but some are still on the Naval Vessel Register (NVR), while others have been struck from the register.
The North Korean torpedo boats began an attack on the allied ships. Before their torpedoes could be fired however, they were met with a salvo of gunfire from the United Nations ships which destroyed three of the torpedo boats. The surviving North Korean craft fled. Later in July, Juneau encountered the same ammunition ships and destroyed them.
USS Maddox (DD-622) USS Maine (1889) Malabar (1795 ship) CSS Manassas; HMS Matabele (F26) USS McCalla (DD-253) USS Mississippi (1841) USS Missouri (1841) HMS Monmouth (1901) Monument to the Victims of the USS Maine (Havana) USS Morrison; Russian cruiser Moskva; HMS Mourne; Japanese destroyer Murasame (1935) Japanese battleship Mutsu
CAMDEN — The Battleship New Jersey, a focal point of the Camden waterfront since 2001, made its highly anticipated departure today with a celebratory send-off.. Tugboats pulled the massive ship ...