The USS Missouri grounding occurred 17 January 1950 when the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) ran aground while sailing out of Chesapeake Bay. No one was...
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USS Missouri (BB-63) is an Iowa-class battleship built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1940s and is a museum ship. Completed in 1944, she is the...
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The 2009 USS Port Royal grounding was a ship grounding by the United States Navy guided missile cruiser Port Royal off Oahu, Hawaii on 5 February 2009...
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Harbor, Wallin was selected to command the salvage effort of the 1950 USS Missouri grounding. Following World War II, Wallin commanded the Philadelphia and...
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SS Europa (1928) (redirect from SS Liberte (1950))
she was captured by the Allies and used as a troopship, sailing as the USS Europa (AP-177). The US Navy ensign who was handed the German captain’s pistol...
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USS Iowa (BB-61) is a retired battleship, the lead ship of her class, and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named after the state of Iowa. Owing...
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Iowa-class battleship (section Missouri)
After World War II, Missouri conducted largely uneventful training and operational cruises until suffering a grounding accident. In 1950, she was dispatched...
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USS Benevolence (AH-13) a United States Navy Hospital Ship, was built as SS Marine Lion in 1944 by Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., in Chester, Pennsylvania...
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New Jersey. From 30 January to 7 February 1950, Papago was involved in re-floating the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63), which had run aground in Hampton...
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and stay upright. The twin propellers and rudders had protection from grounding. The LSTs served across the globe during World War II, including in the...
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renamed SS Mary Luckenbach. At 17:05 on 25 August 1950, Mary Luckenbach collided with the hospital ship USS Benevolence (AH-13) just off San Francisco. Benevolence...
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America: an historical perspective, (2006), p. 70 "USS Missouri (BB-63), Grounding, January 1950", US Navy History, Accessed 2010.8.27. This article incorporates...
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USS Texas (BB-35) is a museum ship in Galveston and former United States Navy New York-class battleship. She was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned...
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USS Windlass (ARS(D)-4), a Gypsy-class salvage lifting vessel of the United States Navy, was originally conceived as LSM-552 and laid down on 27 August...
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The first USS Sabalo (SP-225) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919. Following World War I, Sabalo was sold to private...
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the aircraft carrier USS Boxer (CV-21) on 19 May 1951 off Korea. The pilot, Lt.(jg) Oliver D. Droege, of Kansas City, Missouri (USA), was rescued by...
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USS Ernest G. Small (DD/DDR-838) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Rear Admiral Ernest G. Small (1888–1944). Ernest G...
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HMS Truculent (P315) (category Maritime incidents in 1950)
bow struck a Swedish oil tanker outside the mouth of the Medway in January 1950. Held primarily responsible, Truculent began to sink – 64 men were lost as...
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SS Ypiranga (category Maritime incidents in 1950)
Companhia Colonial de Navegação (CCN) bought her and renamed her Colonial. In 1950 she was sold for scrap, but she sank off the coast of Scotland while being...
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USS Bugara (SS-331), a Balao-class submarine in commission from 1944 to 1970, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the bugara, a multicolored...
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the Japanese Empire took place aboard a United States Navy battleship, USS Missouri. Between those two events, it had become clear that aircraft carriers...
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17, 1950. Archived from the original on 5 December 2010. Retrieved 19 November 2010. "Lieutenant Richard O. Young, USN; Commanding Officer of USS Pledge"...
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HMS Thermopylae (P355) (category Maritime incidents in 1950)
immediately joined the 3rd Flotilla based in the Holy Loch. On 15 January 1950 she ran aground on Stevenson Rock, off Skerryvore, Inner Hebrides. In 1953...
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USS Holland (AS-3) 6 S-class (4 torpedo tubes, 14 knots surfaced) USS S-36 (SS-141) – scuttled following grounding 21 Jan 1942 USS S-37 (SS-142) USS S-38 (SS-143)...
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after Missouri crash" Archived 11 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine. CNN, 5 November 2007. Warwick, Graham. "F-15 operators follow USAF grounding after...
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USS Pledge (AM-277) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was built to clear minefields in offshore waters...
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HMAS Orara (category Maritime incidents in 1950)
steamship that was built in Scotland in 1907 and sunk by a mine in China in 1950. She spent most of her career in the fleet of the North Coast Steam Navigation...
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OR USS Bowfin (SS-287) - USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park, Pearl Harbor, HI USS Cavalla (SSK-244) - Galveston Naval Museum, Galveston, TX USS Cobia...
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many ships, including the aircraft carriers USS Kearsarge and USS Leyte, and the battleship USS Missouri, searched as far as 500 miles south of Bermuda...
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ships. 17 sets of heavy beach gear were utilized help un-ground the USS Missouri in 1950. A typical set included: Crown buoy and recovery wire Two four-ton...
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