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...escue 28 survivors from the stricken {{USS|Leopold|DE-319|6}}, which was [[torpedo]]ed while investigating a [[radar]] contact. ''Joyce'' steamed at top speed ...r {{SS|Pan-Pennsylvania}}, which was torpedoed and set aflame while taking station in the convoy. After picking up 31 survivors, including the tanker's captai

...C. Strickland who was killed on 9 August 1942 during the [[Battle of Savo Island]]. She was laid down on 23 August 1943 by the [[Consolidated Steel]] Corp. ...ng a strafing run on her. During the action, {{USS|Holder|DE-401|6}} was [[torpedo]]ed and badly damaged. The ship's return trip to the United States was unev

|Ship notes= Washington Naval District at [[Baltimore, Maryland]], 3 September 1968 ...re dawn 1 April 1944, 56 miles west of [[Algiers]] by [[Germany|German]] [[torpedo bombers]]. [[SS Jared Ingersoll]], a [[Liberty ship]], was hit and set blaz

...and [[PT boat]]s and conducted [[antiaircraft]] firing practice in [[Block Island Sound]], [[Brooklyn, New York]], before shifting south to the [[Tidewater ( ...mmenced their barrage. Observers in ''Wilhoite'' saw the attacking planes, torpedo-carrying [[Junkers Ju 88|Junkers (Ju.) 88's]], sheer away from the [[flak]]

...Lieutenant Junior Grade]] [[David Atkins Brough]] (15 June 1914–1942), a Naval Aviator who was awarded the [[Air Medal]] [[Posthumous recognition|posthumo ...tiles were fired. When ''Brough'' was commissioned her armament included [[torpedo tube]]s, eight 20mm guns, a twin 40 mm and three 3"/5O cal. guns. But

...4 June 1945 with the rest of Escort Division 22 for exercises at [[Culebra Island]], and at [[Guantánamo Bay, Cuba|Guantanamo Bay]], [[Cuba]]. She transited ...Squadron 10 off the east coast of the United States, from [[Newport, Rhode Island]], to [[Key West, Florida]], and in the [[Caribbean Sea]]. During these yea

...on to duty was in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service. Swenning died just a few days later on December 1 1942 and was pos ...[Houston, Texas]]; launched on 13 September 1943; sponsored by Miss Hertha Rhode; and commissioned on 1 December 1943, Lt. Richard E. Peek, Jr., [[USNR]], i

...[antisubmarine]] projector, 6 x Mark 10-8 [[torpedo tube]]s, [[Mark 44]] [[torpedo]]es ...ning|decommissioned]] on 24 July 1946 and placed in reserve at [[Naval Air Station Alameda]] in [[Alameda, California|Alameda]], [[California]].

...FS /> <br/>• [[Jonathan Wainwright, Jr.]] <br/>• [[Richard Wainwright (naval officer, Civil War)|Richard Wainwright]] ...rporation|New York Shipbuilding]]<ref name=DANFS>{{cite DANFS | author = [[Naval History & Heritage Command]] | url = http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/w1/w

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The '''Mark 18 torpedo''' was an electric torpedo used by the [[US Navy]] during [[World War II]]. ...ictory'' (New York: Bantam, 1976), p.280.</ref> in particular the [[Mark 2 torpedo|Mark II]], originated in 1941 in collaboration with [[General Electric]] an