Naval gunfights......"death by a thousand cuts"

[eightmillimeter]

Do you see Torpedo Boats?

FK yes I even got the shirt.

DOGGER... BANK... INCIDENT...

History is better than fiction

[Diamondback]

FK yes I even got the shirt.

DOGGER... BANK... INCIDENT...

History is better than fiction

Fiction has to be "believable," reality doesn't--like Nelson capturing one three-decker ship of the line then immediately using it as a platform to board and take a second, you'd swear the guy thought his life was meant for an Errol Flynn movie.

[Coal Dragger]

Do you see Torpedo Boats?

..... and another set of binoculars hurled into the sea!

[ABNAK]

You're thinking of the Atlantas, originally designed as destroyer squadron flagships to replace the old Omahas and then refined into dedicated AA platforms. Clevelands were 6" cruisers, but rarely got the chance to fire their main bores so most of their service was contributing to the wall of flak screening the carriers.

Atlanta herself and one of her sisters, IIRC Juneau, were lost in the Solomons, one IIRC taking the five Sullivan brothers down with her.

It was the Juneau that had the Sullivans. That was a cluster of epic proportions too, a la USS Indianapolis. The Juneau, after being damaged in a surface action, was limping away with two other U.S. cruisers when she was sunk by a submarine. The other two cruisers left, thinking there were no survivors (but there were in fact around 100, including a couple Sullivans). It was EIGHT days before they were discovered. Only about 10 guys survived, and none of them were a Sullivan.