* Capt. JG wrote, On 3/4/2007 9:53 PM:
"Jeff" wrote in message
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* Capt. JG wrote, On 3/4/2007 7:51 PM:
Name the first US ship that was lost by enemy action in WWI and the year
it happened.

William P. Frye
http://www.maritimelibraryfriends.or...P.%20Frye.html


Great Jeff. Now, if you can, name the first US Navy ship to be lost by enemy
action in WWI (for another 2 pts of course!).


The submarine Skate was the first lost, but that wasn't enemy action.

The first ship was the USS Cassin, a destroyer. But a few weeks later
the steam yacht Alcedo was sunk.

The first navy ship lost to Germany in WWII was the destroyer USS
Reuben James, on 31. October, 1941, five weeks before Pearl Harbor.

My farther-in-law was on one of the last ships sunk in the Atlantic,
the US Oklahoma, on March 31, 1945.