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Operation Avalanche Naval Order Of Battle
Operation Avalanche was the codename for the combined US and British landings on the southwest coast of Italy on 9 September 1943 as part of the Allied effort in the Mediterranean Theater during World War II. The forces landed consisted of the US Fifth Army under Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark. The Fifth Army was made up of the British X Corps, which landed south of the town of Salerno, and the US VI Corps, which landed at the town of Paestum. The landings were carried out by combined forces of the US Navy and Royal Navy, detailed below. ''Naval losses:'' 2 destroyers, 1 minesweeper, 1 tug, 1 hospital ship Order of battle Task Force 80: Western Naval Task Force Vice Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, USNMorison, pp. 391-394 : Embarking US Fifth Army (Lt. Gen. Mark Wayne Clark, USA) ::* 1 amphibious force flagship: USS ''Ancon'' ::* 2 anti-aircraft/fighter director ships: HMS ''Ulster Queen'', HMS ''Palomares'' ::* 1 submarine: HMS ''Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Ancon (AGC-4)
USS ''Ancon'' (AGC-4) was one of three identical ships built for the Panama Railroad Company put into operation in 1938. The ship was converted to a troop ship by the Army in January 1942, making several voyages to Australia with troops as an Army Transport. In August 1942 the ship's operation was transferred to the United States Navy for the duration of World War II and converted to a combined headquarters and communications command ship. Early civilian service ''Ancon'' was laid down 23 October 1937 as hull number 1468, second of three identical ships ordered by the Panama Railroad Company, launched on 10 December 1938 at Fore River Shipyard (Bethlehem Steel Company), Quincy, Massachusetts.DANFS gives the launch date for the first of the ships, ''Panama''. The three ships with launch dates are: ''Panama'' 24 September 1938, ''Ancon'' 10 December 1938 and ''Cristobal'' 4 March 1939. The ship was sponsored by Mrs. Harry Woodring, wife of the Secretary of War. The ship was owned a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Delhi (D47)
HMS ''Delhi'' was a that served with the Royal Navy through the Second World War, from the Caribbean to eastern China. She was laid down in 1917, launched in 1918 and commissioned for service in 1919, serving until decommissioning in mid-1945 due to extensive battle damage, and was to be scrapped in 1948 after lengthy war and peacetime service around the world. Service history After completion, sea trials and working up as part the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron with the Atlantic Fleet, ''Delhi'' served in the Baltic as part of a wider multinational intervention in the Russian Civil War against the nascent Soviet republics. Departing the Baltic, ''Delhi'' returned to Britain and spent the next three years with the Atlantic Fleet. She was to be chosen in 1923, along with her sisters , , and , for the Empire Cruise of the Special Service Squadron, representing the most modern and most powerful cruisers of the Royal Navy, as escorts to the battlecruisers and . Returning in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Orion (85)
HMS ''Orion'' was a light cruiser which served with distinction in the Royal Navy during World War II. She received 13 battle honours, a record only exceeded by and matched by two others. History ''Orion'' was built by Devonport Dockyard (Plymouth, U.K), Vickers-Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK). ''Orion'' was commissioned on 18 January 1934, for service with the Home Fleet but she was transferred to the America and West Indies Station, based at the Royal Naval Dockyard on Ireland Island, in the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda, in 1937 where she was with the 8th Cruiser Squadron. She arrived at Bermuda on 3rs of September, 1937. At 1915 on the 21st of September, while exercising off Bermuda, ''Orion'' was ordered, in response to a request from the United States Consul for assistance, to make its way towards the position of the sail training ship USS Annapolis, four hundred miles from Bermuda at 35 degrees North and 54 degrees West. Cadet Robert Hugh Quinn, aboa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Uganda
HMS ''Uganda'' was a Second World War-era light cruiser launched in 1941. She served in the Royal Navy during 1943 and 1944, including operations in the Mediterranean, and was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS ''Uganda'' in October 1944. She served in the Pacific theatre in 1945 and was put into reserve in 1947. When she was reactivated for the Korean War in 1952 she was renamed HMCS ''Quebec''. She was decommissioned for the last time in 1956 and scrapped in Japan in 1961. Construction and career HMS ''Uganda'' was one of the ''Ceylon'' sub-class (the second group of three ships built in 1939) of the ''Fiji''-class cruisers, and built by Vickers-Armstrong at their Walker yard. She was launched on 7 August 1941 and commissioned on 3 January 1943. Home Fleet operations In March 1943 after training at Scapa Flow, ''Uganda'' sailed as convoy escort to protect a Sierra Leone-bound convoy from the German s operating from the Bay of Biscay. After two such convoy duti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Mauritius (80)
HMS ''Mauritius'', pennant C80, was a light cruiser of the Royal Navy. The ship was built by Swan Hunter, Newcastle upon Tyne. She was named after Mauritius, which was a British colony when she was built and entered service in 1941. Service ''Mauritius'' was completed with an internal degaussing system which induced severe corrosion to the ship's fire main (made of copper); this major defect, which rendered her unfit for action, required refits, first at Simonstown, later at Singapore, and finally at Plymouth. The future Admiral of the Fleet Henry Leach served as a midshipman aboard ''Mauritius'' during this time. She joined the Eastern Fleet in 1942, but was withdrawn in April 1943 to reinforce the Mediterranean Fleet. After repairs following grounding, she was operational in June 1943 and thereafter participated in the landings in Sicily, (Operation Husky), in July as a unit of Support Force East, when she carried out shore bombardment duties. In September she was part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Light Cruiser
A light cruiser is a type of small or medium-sized warship. The term is a shortening of the phrase "light armored cruiser", describing a small ship that carried armor in the same way as an armored cruiser: a protective belt and deck. Prior to this smaller cruisers had been of the protected cruiser model, possessing armored decks only. While lighter and smaller than other contemporary ships they were still true cruisers, retaining the extended radius of action and self-sufficiency to act independently around the world. Through their history they served in a variety of roles, primarily as convoy escorts and destroyer command ships, but also as scouts and fleet support vessels for battle fleets. Origins and development The first small steam-powered cruisers were built for the British Royal Navy with HMS ''Mercury'' launched in 1878. Such second and third class protected cruisers evolved, gradually becoming faster, better armed and better protected. Germany took a lead in small cru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Biscayne
USS ''Biscayne'' (AVP-11), later AGC-18, was a United States Navy ''Barnegat''-class seaplane tender in commission as a seaplane tender from 1941 to 1943 and as an amphibious force flagship from 1943 to 1946. She saw service during World War II. Transferred to the United States Coast Guard after the war, she was in commission as the Coast Guard cutter USCGC ''Dexter'' (WAGC-385), later WAVP-385 and WHEC-385, from 1946 to 1952 and from 1958 to 1968. Construction and commissioning ''Biscayne'' was laid down on 27 October 1939 at Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton, Washington. She was launched on 23 May 1941, sponsored by Mrs. A. M. Charleton, and commissioned on 3 July 1941. United States Navy service World War II Seaplane tender operations Following her shakedown cruise, ''Biscayne'' joined the Atlantic Fleet and operated out of Boston, Massachusetts, on patrol and plane guard missions from 7 December 1941 until 27 May 1942. For the next four months she served as a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Hilary (1940)
SS ''Hilary'' was a British steam passenger liner that was built in 1931 and scrapped in 1959. She spent much of her career on a scheduled service between Liverpool in England and Manaus in Brazil. In the Second World War the ship spent two periods in the Royal Navy as HMS ''Hilary''. The first was in 1941–42 as an ocean boarding vessel. The second was in 1943–45 as a landing ship, infantry and headquarters ship. ''Hilary'' belonged to the Booth Steamship Company throughout her career. She was the largest ship Booth ever owned, both in length and in tonnage. She also had the most powerful engines of any Booth ship. This was the third Booth ship to be called ''Hilary''. The first was a cargo ship that was built in 1889 as ''Red Sea'', bought by Booth and renamed ''Hilary'' in 1892, sold in 1911 to Japanese buyers and renamed ''Misumi Maru''. The second was a passenger and cargo ship that was built in 1908, requisitioned in 1914 as the armed merchant cruiser , and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard McCreery
General Sir Richard Loudon McCreery, (1 February 1898 – 18 October 1967) was a career soldier of the British Army, who was decorated for leading one of the last cavalry actions in the First World War. During the Second World War, he was chief of staff to General Sir Harold Alexander at the time of the Second Battle of El Alamein, and later commanded the British Eighth Army, fighting in the Italian campaign from October 1944 until the end of the war, leading it to victory in the final offensive in Italy. Background, early life and First World War Richard Loudon McCreery was born on 1 February 1898, the eldest son of Walter Adolph McCreery of Bilton Park, Rugby, a Swiss-born American who spent most of his life in England but who represented the United States at polo at the 1900 Summer Olympics. His mother was Emilia McAdam, a great-great granddaughter of the Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam, famous for his invention of the process of "Macadamization", a method of roa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X Corps
10th Corps, Tenth Corps, or X Corps may refer to: France * 10th Army Corps (France) * X Corps (Grande Armée), a unit of the Imperial French Army during the Napoleonic Wars Germany * X Corps (German Empire), a unit of the Imperial German Army * X Reserve Corps (German Empire), a unit of the Imperial German Army * X Army Corps (Wehrmacht), a unit in World War II * X SS Corps, a unit in World War II Russia-USSR * 10th Army Corps (Russian Empire) * 10th Rifle Corps (USSR) * 10th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) Others * X Corps (Ottoman Empire) * X Corps (Pakistan) * X Army Corps (Spain) * X Corps (United Kingdom) * X Corps (United States) * X Corps (Union Army) See also *List of military corps by number * 10th Army (other) * 10th Battalion (other) * 10th Brigade (other) * 10th Division (other) * 10th Regiment (other) * 10th Squadron (other) 10 Squadron or 10th Squadron may refer to: * No. 10 Squadron IAF, a fighter squadron of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Shakespeare (P221)
HMS ''Shakespeare'' was an S-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War, and part of the Third Group built of that class. She was built by Vickers-Armstrongs and launched on 8 December 1941. Design and description The S-class submarines were designed to patrol the restricted waters of the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. The third batch was slightly enlarged and improved over the preceding second batch of the S-class. The submarines had a length of overall, a beam of and a draught of . They displaced on the surface and submerged. The S-class submarines had a crew of 48 officers and ratings. They had a diving depth of .McCartney, p. 7 For surface running, the boats were powered by two diesel engines, each driving one propeller shaft. When submerged each propeller was driven by a electric motor. They could reach on the surface and underwater. On the surface, the third-batch boats had a range of at and at submerged. The boats were ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
