On May 29, 1944, German U-boat, U-549, torpedoed and sank USS Block Island (CVE-21) west-northwest of the Canary Islands. USS Barr (DE-576) was also damaged in this attack. Block Island was the only U.S. carrier lost in the Atlantic during World War II. Later that night, USS Eugene E. Elmore (DE-686) and USS Ahrens (DE-575) revenged the attack and sank the German submarine south-west of Madiera, Portugal. The only success U-549 had during her war patrols was with the two Navy warships on May 29.
CVE 21 was hit by three torpedos off the Canary Islands on 29 May 1944 by German submarine
German submarine
U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. The term is an anglicised version of the German word U-Boot [ˈuːboːt], a shortening of Unterseeboot (under-sea boat), though the German term refers to any submarine.
U-549. The carrier was sunk with all but six crew members surviving. Of the six aircraft in the air at the time of the sinking only two airmen were recovered. Supporting destroyers sank the U-Boat and rescued the CVE 21 crew.
The U.S. lost just one aircraft carrier after 1942, at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and it would finish the war with 29 aircraft carriers in its navy, compared to just four for the Japanese.
The New Jersey showed what her nine 16-inch guns could do in 1969 when she nosed up to a small, heavily fortified island off North Vietnam. The enemy soldiers were allowed to escape unharmed. Then the dreadnought opened fire. A newspaper headline later told the result: ''The New Jersey Sinks an Island.
Just days before Germany's surrender, U-853 torpedoed and sank the collier Black Point during the Battle of Point Judith. The day before Germany surrendered, American warships quickly found U-853 and sank her 7 nmi (13 km; 8.1 mi) east of Block Island, Rhode Island, resulting in the loss of her entire crew.
On 29 May 1946, Block Island was moved to Annapolis to serve as a Naval Academy training ship for midshipmen. The vessel was recommissioned on 28 April 1951. She remained active during the Korean War and was placed in reserve 27 August 1954. CVE 106 was eventually sold for scrap and stricken from Navy records.
On May 29, 1944, German U-boat, U-549, torpedoed and sank Block Island west-northwest of the Canary Islands. She was the only U.S. carrier lost in the Atlantic during World War II.
Originally scheduled for delivery in 2015, Gerald R. Ford was delivered to the Navy on 31 May 2017 and formally commissioned by President Donald Trump on 22 July 2017. Her first deployment departed 4 October 2022. As of 2024, she is the world's largest aircraft carrier, and the largest warship ever constructed.
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Did the New Jersey lose any crew? The ship had only one onboard combat fatality. Seaman Robert Oesterwind died and several others were injured in May 1951 when the ship took a hit from shore during a Korean deployment.
It was on this first such mission at Wonsan that she received her only combat casualties of the Korean War. One of her men was killed and two severely wounded when she took a hit from a shore battery on her number one turret and received a near miss aft to port.
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