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  Encyclopedia: USS Pruitt (DD-347)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
USS Lassen, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and manouverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range attackers (originally torpedo boats, later submarines and aircraft).
USS Farragut DD-300 The second Farragut (DD-300) was a Clemson-class destroyer laid down by the Union Iron Works Plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at San Francisco in California on 4 July 1918, launched on 21 November 1918 by Mrs.
The fourth USS Somers (DD-301) was a Clemson-class destroyer engaged in peacetime operations with the Pacific Fleet from 1920 until she was scrapped under the London Disarmament Treaty in 1930.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/USS-Pruitt-%28DD_347%29   (5126 words)

  
 WORLD WAR II 1945
The Japanese submarine RO-112 is sunk by the submarine USS Batfish (SS-310) in the Philippines.
The destroyers USS Fletcher (DD-445) and USS Hopewell (DD-681) are damaged by coastal defense guns and the destroyers USS Radford (DD-446) and USS Lavallette (DD-448) are damaged by mines, all in the Philippines.
The battleship USS Colorado (BB-45) is damaged by an explosion, the destroyer USS Ammen (DD-527) by a horizontal bomber and the submarine chaser SC-737 by grounding, all in the Okinawa area.
www.blountweb.com /blountcountymilitary/wars/ww2/timelines/1945_ww2.htm   (11002 words)

  
 Zeilin dd 313
The first Zeilin (DD-313) was laid down on 20 February 1919 at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. yard in San Francisco, Calif.; launched on 28 May 1919- sponsored by Mrs.
Following shakedown, Zeilin reported for duty with Division 33, Squadron 11, Destroyers, Battle Force, based at San Diego, Calif. For the next nine years, she operated out of that port, conducting maneuvers with the fleet and training with independent ships.
Her name was struck from the Navy list on 8 July 1930, and she was subsequently scrapped by the Navy.
www.navyhistory.com /destroyer/dest2/Zeilindd313.html   (149 words)

  
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Smith (DM-23) and high-speed transport USS Gilmer (APD-11) are damaged by suicide plane; the destroyer escort USS Sederstrom (DE-31) by collision; and the high-speed transport USS Knudsen (APD-11) by horizontal bomber, all in the Okinawa area.
Bauer (DM-26) by aircraft torpedo; seaplane tender (destroyer) USS Thornton (AVD-11), oilers USS Ashtabula (AO-51) and USS Escalante (AO-70) and LST 273, LST 646, LST 698, LST 810, LST 940 and LST 1000 by collision, all in the Okinawa area.
The Japanese submarine I-165 is sunk by naval land-based aircraft (VPB-142) in the central Pacific.
www.america-at-war.net /wwii1945.html   (10861 words)

  
 Articles - USS Zeilin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Two ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Zeilin after Marine Corps General Jacob Zeilin.
The first Zeilin (DD-313) was a destroyer, commissioned in 1920 and decommissioned in 1930.
The second Zeilin (AP-9) was a transport, commissioned in 1942 and decommissioned in 1946.
www.mafox.com /articles/USS_Zeilin   (72 words)

  
 Destroyer Photo Index DD-341 USS DECATUR
USS Paul Hamilton (DD-307) is partially visible in the left distance.
USS Decatur (DD-341) In the Panama Canal, during the 1920s or 1930s.
USS Yorktown (CV 5), USS Texas (BB 35), USS Decater (DD 341), USS Jacob Jones (DD 130), and unidentified tug at Pier 7, Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia, on 19 October 1937.
www.navsource.org /archives/05/341.htm   (492 words)

  
 Articles - USS Zeilin (DD-313)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The first USS Zeilin (DD-313) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I.
Zeilin was laid down on 20 February 1919 at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation yard in San Francisco, California; launched on 28 May 1919; sponsored by Mrs.
William P. Lindley; and commissioned on 10 December 1920 at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Lieutenant Commander James D. Moore in command.
www.mafox.com /articles/USS_Zeilin_%28DD-313%29   (228 words)

  
 HyperWar: The Amphibians Came to Conquer [Chapter 8]
The 3rd Marine Defense Battalion, to sail from Pearl Harbor on 22 July in the Zeilin and Betelgeuse, was due to be assigned to PHIBFORSOPAC upon arrival.
The Zeilin (AP-9) Flag of Transport Division Two, and the Betelgeuse (AK-28) of the same division, under orders to proceed to Pearl from San Diego, were ordered to sail from Pearl about 20 July 1942, to the South Pacific Area.
It also made clear that the transport Zeilin and the cargo ship Betelgeuse carrying the 3rd Defense Battalion of Marines would not join "off KORO until about the 30th," and hence these Marines would not participate in the rehearsal everyone knew was essential.
www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ACTC/actc-8.html   (12420 words)

  
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 Destroyer Photo Index DD-308 USS WILLIAM JONES
Note the USS Bennington monument atop the hill in the right center background.
Photo #: NH 69125, USS William Jones (DD-308) hauled out for repairs at the Destroyer Base, San Diego, California, following a collision with USS Percival (DD-298) on the night of 31 January 1926.
The original caption reads: "Close-up showing dent in her side as a result of the collision with USS Percival, Sunday night, 31 January 1926.
www.navsource.org /archives/05/308.htm   (457 words)

  
 Destroyer Photo Index DD-313 USS ZEILIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Fate Sold and broken up for scrap in 1930.
Photo of the S-14 and USS Zeilin in Mare Island Dry Dock # 1, January 13 1928.
From the collection of CDR August Billig, USS Decatur (DD-341), USS Somers (DD-301), USS John Francis Burnes (DD-299), USS Farragut (DD-300), USS Percival (DD-298), USS Wiliam Jones (DD-308) and USS Zeilin (DD-313) circa the early 1930's.
www.navsource.org /archives/05/313.htm   (255 words)

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