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Asakaze-class Destroyer
The ''Asakaze''-class destroyer is a class of destroyers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. Two ships of the were lent by the United States Navy and were in commission from 1954 until 1969. Development JDS ''Asakaze'' was commissioned as on 28 November 1941 at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, and JDS ''Hatakaze'' was commissioned as on 26 January 1942 at the Bath Iron Works. In 1951, General Matthew Ridgway, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, proposed to lend a patrol frigate (PF) and a Landing Ship Logistics, landing support boat (LSSL) to Allied occupation of Japan, Japan under Allied occupation. In response to this, on 26 April 1952, the Coastal Safety Force was established within the Japan Coast Guard to serve as a receiver for these warships and as the base of a future navy. Then, with the establishment of the National Safety Agency on 1 August, the same year, the Coast Guard was reorganized into a security force by absorbing the route enlightenment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bath Iron Works
Bath Iron Works (BIW) is a major United States shipyard located on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine, founded in 1884 as Bath Iron Works, Limited. Since 1995, Bath Iron Works has been a subsidiary of General Dynamics, one of the world's largest defense companies. BIW has built private, commercial, and military vessels, most of which have been ordered by the United States Navy. History Bath Iron Works was incorporated in 1884 by General Thomas W. Hyde, a native of Bath who served in the American Civil War. After the war, he bought a shop that made windlasses and other iron hardware for the wooden ships built in Bath's many shipyards. He expanded the business by improving its practices, entering new markets, and acquiring other local businesses. By 1882, Hyde Windlass was eyeing the new and growing business of iron shipbuilding, and it incorporated as Bath Iron Works in 1884. On February 28, 1890, BIW won its first contract for complete vessels: two iron gunboats for the Navy. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K-gun
A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon designed to destroy submarines by detonating in the water near the target and subjecting it to a destructive hydraulic shock. Most depth charges use high explosives with a fuze set to detonate the charge, typically at a specific depth from the surface. Depth charges can be dropped by ships (typically fast, agile surface combatants such as destroyers or frigates), patrol aircraft and helicopters. Depth charges were developed during World War I, and were one of the first viable methods of attacking a submarine underwater. They were widely used in World War I and World War II, and remained part of the anti-submarine arsenals of many navies during the Cold War, during which they were supplemented, and later largely replaced, by anti-submarine homing torpedoes. A depth charge fitted with a nuclear warhead is also known as a " nuclear depth bomb". These were designed to be dropped from a patrol plane or deployed by an an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Macomb (DD-458)
USS ''Macomb'' (DD-458/DMS-23) was a of the United States Navy, named for Commodore William H. Macomb (1818–1872) and Rear Admiral David B. Macomb (1827–1911). ''Macomb'' was laid down on 3 September 1940 by the Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine and launched on 23 September 1941; cosponsored by Mrs. Ryland W. Greene and her sister, Mrs. Edward H. Chew, granddaughters of Commodore William H. Macomb. The destroyer commissioned on 26 January 1942. Service history Atlantic service Following shakedown, she operated off the east coast escorting convoys and aircraft carriers. These convoy missions took ''Macomb'' south to the northern coast of South America, east to the West African coast, and north to Newfoundland. Standing out of Boston on 5 July 1942, ''Macomb'' escorted a U.S. Army transport and an English ship to Greenock, Scotland, arriving 12 July. She operated between Scotland and Iceland making one round-trip voyage to New York for availability, until 25 Septembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Ellyson (DD-454)
USS ''Ellyson'' (DD-454/DMS-19), a , is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Theodore Gordon Ellyson, a submariner who became the first officer of the U.S. Navy to be designated a naval aviator. Service history ''Ellyson'' was laid down by Federal Shipbuilding of Kearny, New Jersey on 20 December 1940. She was ship naming and launching, launched on 26 July 1941 sponsored by Miss Gordon Ellyson, daughter of Commander Ellyson, and ship commissioning, commissioned on 28 November 1941. 1942 Still outfitting when the United States entered World War II, ''Ellyson'' was quickly readied for sea and patrolled in the Atlantic, protecting Allied shipping from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, to the West Indies and Panama Canal. On 14 January 1942 she rescued 24 survivors from the sunken Norway, Norwegian SS ''Norness''. On 15 June she broke the Broad pennant, pennant of Commander, Destroyer Squadron 10, which she was to carry proudly through the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
