The 100 foot Navy tugboat fought fires on the Battleship Arizona and helped push the Battleship Nevada aground to avoid sinking and blocking the harbor channel. Four of the Tennessee Class Battlships that were sunk or damaged had steam turbo-electric propulsion systems. The Hoga had a diesel-...
Two badly damaged warships of the Russian Far East Fleet lie in Port Arthur sometime in the middle of 1904. On February 8th Admiral Togo of Japan had launched a surprise torpedo attack on the fleet with his destroyers, hitting two old pre-Dreadnought Russian battleships as well as the 6,60...
Washington, DC. Japan, United States, Britain, France and Italy agree to limit the displacement and main armament of their capital ships, aircraft carriers and cruisers and to limit the total tonnage and age of their capital ships and carriers. Battleships and aircraft carriers are set at a ra...
8 December 1941:Operation "Z" – The Attack on Pearl Harbor: BatDiv 1 sorties from Hashirajima to the Bonin Islands with the First Fleet's BatDiv 2's ISE, FUSO, YAMASHIRO, HYUGA, CarDiv 3's light carrier HOSHO, escorted by DesDiv 21's WAKABA, NENOHI, HATSUHARU and HATSUSHIMO and ...
damaged outboard engine room. Flooding increased again, with another hit aft of the third fire room. This time, the battleship was listing 15–18° to port and counterflooding of all remaining void spaces starboard helped reducing this to 10°. Now only repairs could do anything. At present...
The program planned to replace entirely her propulsion machinery, the most critical part as it had been damaged at Jutland and never fixed properly. The solution was to start over to the ground up. For this the ship in drydock was stripped of every heavy component which was unloaded. The ...
The sunken battleship USS West Virginia, with the battleship USS Tennessee inboard of it, during or after the attack on Pearl Harbor. US Navy All eight Battleships of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet were sunk or damaged in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The newest battleships of the No...
The 100 foot Navy tugboat fought fires on the Battleship Arizona and helped push the Battleship Nevada aground to avoid sinking and blocking the harbor channel. Four of the Tennessee Class Battlships that were sunk or damaged had steam turbo-electric propulsion systems. The Hoga had a diesel-...
YAMATO's main guns, loaded with "Sanshiki-dan" shells, are fired in anger for the first time - but at friendly forces! Four Mitsubishi Zeke fighters are damaged. Another ditches. YAMATO may have damaged some of the planes. MUSASHI's lookouts correctly identify the planes and she is the ...
At 0043, KIRISHIMA and AYANAMI illuminate SOUTH DAKOTA (whose main forward armament has not been repaired fully since damaged at Santa Cruz) with their searchlights. It is not until this time that Admiral Kondo, studying the enemy vessel's superstructure, realizes that his force is up against ...