Sea Classics Magazine
Volume 40 Number 7 July 2007
Contents:
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War. We recount the story of the only submarine lost in combat since World War Two The British military planners knew exactly how many submarines were operated by the Argentine Navy; the trouble was that they did not know ...
SISTERS OF THE STORM: DESRON 29 AND THE LOSS OF JAVA
The flush-deck destroyers of America's Asiatic Fleet were little-known and hardly appreciated until they were nearly annihilated in Japan's rampage to conquer oil- and mineral-rich Borneo and Java A NIGHTMAEE 13-WEEKS LONG From 8 December 1941 up through 10 March 1942, a ...
Steaming Under The PANAMANIAN FLAG
Youthful patriotic American seamen had no idea how different and difficult life could be aboard foreign-flagged merchantmen in wartime David Grover's story 'Tank Sailors on Foreign Flag Ships," Sea Classics May 2006 Vol. 39/No. 5, left the question unanswered as to why so many Naval ...
FRIENDS IN PEACE AND WAR: The Russian Navy's Landmark Visit to Civil War San Francisco
FRIENDS IN PEACE AND WAR: The Russian Navy's Landmark Visit to Civil War San Francisco By C. Douglas Kroll 208 Pgs, Illust., 5-in ? 8-in Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-59797-054-9 - $22.95. Potomac Books, Dulles, VA; 703-661-1548 One of the great charms about history is that in the hands of a ...
BAT VICTORY! WE SANK THE FIRST SHIP EVER LOST TO A GUIDED MISSILE
A first-person account of how a Navy PB4Y-2 Privateer patrol bomber sank a Japanese warship with the less-than-perfect Bat missile in WWII On 27 May 1945, two Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateers took off from Naha Air Field on the former Japanese island of Okinawa. Attached to Fleet Air ...
DIVE-BOMBERS: The Warplanes That Shaped Aircraft Carrier Evolution
Scorned and vilified as dangerous and inefficient, perfecting the art and science of dive-bombing proved to be the catalyst that gave the aircraft carrier its greatest sting It was a concept as fundamental as the bow and arrow - if you want to lit a target, aim at it! With that ...
REMEMBERING CANADA'S Prince Robert: FROM CRUISE SHIP TO ARMED MERCHANT CRUISER
In her colorful 30-year career, this hard-steaming passenger liner played many roles and performed each with the flair and aplomb of the pedigree that had been built into her During the first two years of WWII, before the United States was drawn in by the attack on Pearl Harbor, a ...
The City of Galveston hosts a most interesting memorial ship complex that boasts a famed wreck, a unique submarine and a very rare war-built destroyer-escort Pelican Island: Home of a destroyer escort, an attack submarine, and a concrete tanker sunk in Pelican Flats. Pelican Island is ...
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