ww2dbaseAdmiral Forbes, the Royal Navy Commander-in-Chief, having been notified of Rawalpindi's two sighting reports of the "Deutschland", ordered the Home Fleet to sail at once from Scapa Flow to intercept, but in the meantime, HMS Newcastle, the next ship to the Rawalpindi on the patr...
ww2dbaseThe last Liberty Ship built was SS Albert M. Boe, which was launched on 26 Sep 1945 and delivered on 30 Oct 1945. During the design's production life, 2,751 vessels were built; about 200 of them were lost during the war to various reasons. Many Liberty Ships remained in use ...
In Admiralty service from 1940 (Royal Fleet Auxiliary, an auxiliary branch of the Royal Navy responsible for, among other things, supplying the fleet with stores and fuel oil. Its vessels were under the control of the Royal Navy but the crews were merchant navy personnel. The vessels were not...
VC2-S-AP5 US Navy Haskell-class attack transports 117 VC2-S-AP7 Post war models built for the Alcoa Steamship Company 3The Victory Ships were built by six shipyards in the United States. They were as follows.ShipyardLocationDesignationQuantity Bethlehem Fairfield Baltimore, Maryland VC2-S-AP2 ...
Lieutenant Willet was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross and later a destroyer was named in his honor. Captain Buck and Cadet O’Hara were posthumously awarded the Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal. Other Liberty Ships were named after Buck, O’Hara, and Moczkowski....
Sources:United States Navy Dictionary of American Naval Fighting ShipsWikipedia Last Major Revision: Feb 2010Merchant Vessel Kitty Hawk (AKV-1) Interactive Map+− Leaflet | © OpenStreetMapPhotographsSee all 6 photographs of Merchant Vessel Kitty Hawk (AKV-1)...