world war two

If I was in the area I would try to go see her. Would be interesting to get to check her out in dry dock. https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/uss-new-jersey-leave-port-first-time-24-years-big-guns-will-fire-salute-love-ship

Article says rubber, copper, tin, cobalt. Wonder what the cobalt was for..hardening steel...working on the bomb? https://news.yahoo.com/cargo-nazi-ship-sunk-america-185740264.html

CNN — A Japanese merchant ship that sank during World War II while carrying over 1,000 prisoners of war in Australia’s largest loss of life at sea has been found. The Montevideo Maru was discovered off the northwest coast of the Philippines’ Luzon island at a depth of more than 4,000 meters...

As in, being used as a filming location for movies and tv episodes/miniseries that center around the Sinking of the Titanic as the main subject. For Scenes that don't involve flooding and sinking, of course. as in, the following: - Titanic (1953) - A Night to Remember - The Time Tunnel...

Does anyone know if a comprehensive list has ever been made of the total losses suffered by every British shipping company in both world wars ? I have a hunch that British-India Steam Nav. must be near the top (or possibly even topped the list) in both wars. P&O, Anchor Line, Clan Line and the...

I'm curious because a lot of people who boarded ocean liners in those days were Europeans, and the Holocaust killed many European Jews.

Obviously, there were very many torpedo hits on various ships of different countries during WW2. But I want to ask about a very possible scenario in terms of fate of a damaged ship. Let us imagine that a massive battleship like the Yamato was struck by a single torpedo near its stern in such a...

Hello everybody, sorry for resurrecting this old thread, but I'm researching about the Second Battle of the Atlantic and I was wondering if anybody knew where to find the monthly shipyard output of Great Britain and United States during the Secon World War. I read somewehere that in order to...

Hi, I gather that British liners were requisitioned by the RN during WW2 (and WW1 of course) for troop transports etc. How did that work, personnel-wise? Did officers/crew have to be in the RN Reserve or recieve RN training or did they carry on as simply CWS crew members paid by CWS or...

In any way I mean, but consequence of the war. Air raids, battle, whatever. Thank you.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/the-norwegian-sailor-albert-moss-survived-the-titanic-tragedy-as-well-as-ww1-and-ww2-16578.html

In the case of American warships that can be explored in the Pacific- does the US maintain a claim on said wrecks, or can any diver or explorer take any souvenier they so choose? I believe the British regard any of their vessels that went down with victims as war graves (Britannic as well?)...

It is well-known that Aquitania had a new wheelhouse built one deck higher during WW1, but has anyone else noticed that this structure was significantly expanded during her WW2 service? Prior to the expansion, there were only 6 windows, but it was widened to about the width of the original...

The 61st anniversary of the loss of 1,015 American troops at sea just passed. The British troopship HMT Rohna was lost off North Africa with the deaths of 1,138 people on 26th November 1943. The 8,602-ton Rohna had departed from Oran, Algeria bound for Bombay, India via the Suez Canal...

Today marks the 1941 anniversary of the loss of the US destroyer USS Reuben James and 115 men when it was torpedoed by a German u-boat, even though the United States hadn't even entered the Second World War. http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/2341.html

The WW2 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal - from which the attack that crippled Bismarck was launched - has been located lying in 3,500 ft of water about 30 miles east of Gibraltar. Several of her aircraft are reportedly scattered around her on the seabed. A film survey of the wreck is being...

I have read, here and elsewhere, that models of the Titanic have been built from "original drawings". Years ago I happened across a comment that stated the record vaults, that held many of these original drawings, were destroyed (all or partially) during the bombings of WW2. This would have...