by Jerry Peterson | Jun 29, 2018 | Attack of Pearl Harbor, Battleships, Destroyers, Gun Boats, Heavy Cruisers, Light Cruisers, Other Ships, Ships, Submarines
There were 130 vessels of the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941, the day of the Japanese surprise attack. Ninety-six of the Pearl Harbor ships were warships. Eight of these were battleships, seven of which were lined up along...
by Mark LoProto | Jun 12, 2018 | Destroyers, Pacific Theater
Laid down at the Puget Sound Navy Yard in December of 1932, USS Worden (DD-352) was commissioned into the US Navy on January 15, 1935. Worden spent most of her early years operating out of San Diego, until late in 1939, when, in response to the outbreak of war in...
by Mark LoProto | Jun 4, 2018 | Attack of Pearl Harbor, Destroyers
Unlike many United States Navy ships that served during World War II, USS Downes (DD-375) had a relatively short life. Launched on April 22, 1936, the Mahan-class destroyer—named for US Naval officer John Downes—was commissioned on January 15, 1937. Once commissioned,...
by Mark LoProto | May 27, 2018 | Destroyers, History, Pacific Theater
In the history books, chapters about the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor are often accompanied by an iconic image: the explosion of a ship taken from a distance. The ship in the image is the destroyer USS Shaw (DD-373). The snapshot was taken just as fires...
by Mark LoProto | May 4, 2018 | Destroyers, Japanese Ships, Pacific Theater, Under the Surface
The Japanese 1st Air Fleet, or kido butai, that attacked Pearl Harbor was made up of six aircraft carriers escorted by a full complement of battleships, cruisers, tankers, and destroyers. In the long and bloody war that followed, most of those ships were lost. Among...
by Mark LoProto | Apr 30, 2018 | Destroyers, History, Pacific Theater
To have a US Navy ship named in one’s honor is a great achievement. One American naval officer had four. Ensign Worth Bagley was killed during the Spanish-American War, in 1898, and the third ship named for him, the destroyer USS Bagley (DD-386), was present at...
