• in the Battle off Samar. Roberts' younger brother, Jack, served aboard DE-413 and was the "voice" of the Samuel B. Roberts on the ship's intercom. He...
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    USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy which served in World War II, the first of three...
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    posthumously awarded the Navy Cross. Samuel B. Roberts was the third U.S. ship to bear the coxswain's name, after Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413), a John C. Butler-class...
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  • USS Samuel B. Roberts may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413), was a John C. Butler-class destroyer...
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  • Samuel or Sam Roberts may refer to: Sam Roberts (journalist) (born 1947), American journalist for The New York Times Sam Roberts (singer-songwriter) (born...
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    USS Samuel B. Roberts (DD-823), a Gearing-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Samuel B. Roberts, a Navy coxswain...
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    worldwide attention in 1988 for transporting the mine-damaged USS Samuel B. Roberts from Dubai to Newport, Rhode Island. The ship was built in 1983 by...
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    destroyers USS Johnston at a depth of 6,469 m (21,224 ft), and USS Samuel B. Roberts at 6,865 m (22,523 ft), in the Philippine Trench, the deepest dives...
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    aircraft in defense, while the three destroyers and destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts, led by USS Johnston, launched a torpedo attack that sank one ship...
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    days earlier. On 14 April, the American guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts struck a mine while transiting international waters as part of Operation...
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    Wyman (DE-38), and Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413). During the Battle off Samar, October 25, 1944, while commanding Samuel B. Roberts, Lieutenant Commander...
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    USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413), "Combined Action Report, Surface Engagement off Samar, Philippine Islands, and Report of Loss of USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413)...
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    included bases for the minelaying operations that damaged Samuel B. Roberts. Stark and Roberts were each repaired in American shipyards and returned to...
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    deepest shipwreck ever surveyed until the 22 June 2022 discovery of USS Samuel B. Roberts, sunk during the same engagement. To rectify the top-heaviness and...
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    torpedoes. As the ships approached the enemy columns, Lt. Cdr. Robert Copeland of Samuel B. Roberts told all hands via bullhorn that this would be "a fight against...
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    Heermann, before being crippled by gunfire from the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts and sunk by air attacks. Chikuma was designed for long-range scouting...
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    ordered two tankers, the last commercial vessels built by BIW. USS Samuel B. Roberts was commissioned at Bath in 1986. It survived a mine explosion which...
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  • of Brandeis/Roberts (MBTA station) Roberts Stadium (disambiguation) Roberts class monitor, a class of British warship USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58), a...
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    14 April 1988, 65 miles (105 km) east of Bahrain, the frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts hit a mine, blowing an immense hole in its hull. 10 sailors were injured...
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  • lost in the battle—USS Hoel (DD-533), USS Johnston (DD-557), USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413), and USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73)—then struggled to survive a...
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    USS Jarrett (FFG-33) USS John A. Moore (FFG-19) USS Klakring (FFG-42) USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) USS Thach (FFG-43) USS La Salle (AGF-3) USS Reuben James (FFG-57)...
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    24 kn (28 mph; 44 km/h). The most notable ship of this class was Samuel B. Roberts, which gained fame during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, where she, along...
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    frigate Samuel B. Roberts sighted three mines floating approximately one-half mile from the ship. Twenty minutes after the first sighting, as Samuel B. Roberts...
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  • retaliation for the Iranian mining of the guided missile frigate Samuel B. Roberts. List of Iranian commanders in the Iran–Iraq War Steve Lohgr (20 April...
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    United States Navy. He was the first commanding officer of the USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) and was in command when the ship struck a mine in the Persian...
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  • USS John Q. Roberts (APD-94) USS John Q. Roberts (APD-94), a high-speed transport in commission from 1944 to 1946 USS Samuel B. Roberts, the name of...
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    destroyers Johnston, Hoel, and Heermann and the destroyer escort Samuel B. Roberts to cover Gambier Bay. This achieved only partial success: Chikuma...
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    code in 1837 and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy. Samuel F. B. Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the first child of the...
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    threatened by both countries. On 14 April 1988, the guided missile frigate Samuel B. Roberts hit a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will. Six...
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    United States for repair. The first was the guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts, which was nearly sunk by a naval mine in the central Persian Gulf...
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