"Jeff" wrote in message
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* 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.


The Cassin was in WWII. The Alcedo was the first in WWI. The interesting
part is that it was a converted sailing ship I believe.

It must have been something to serve in the Navy during WWII. I can't really
imagine it.


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