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Saratoga. (CV-3) USS Saratoga (CV-3) was a Lexington -class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy during the 1920s. Originally designed as a battlecruiser, she was converted into one of the Navy's first aircraft carriers during construction to comply with the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. The ship entered service in 1928 and was ...
Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity on July 16, 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The purpose of the tests was to investigate the effect ...
Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll consisted of the detonation of 23 (or 24 [ a]) nuclear weapons by the United States between 1946 and 1958 on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Tests occurred at 7 test sites on the reef itself, on the sea, in the air, and underwater. [ 2] The test weapons produced a combined yield of about 77 Mt of TNT in ...
Japanese cruiser Sakawa. USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) USS Saratoga (CV-3) USS Searaven. USS Skate (SS-305) USS Skipjack (SS-184) USS Stack.
Bikini Atoll (/ ˈ b ɪ k ɪ ˌ n iː / or / b ɪ ˈ k iː n i /; Marshallese: Pikinni, [pʲiɡinnʲi], lit. ' coconut place '), [2] known as Eschscholtz Atoll between the 19th century and 1946, [3] is a coral reef in the Marshall Islands consisting of 23 islands surrounding a 229.4-square-mile (594.1 km 2) central lagoon.
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) sinking in Bikini Atoll lagoon after bomb damage sustained during the "Baker" atomic test of Operation Crossroads, at 15:40h, 25 July 1946. The battleship USS New York (BB-34) is visible on the right, two Sims -class destroyers on the left. This media is available in the holdings of the ...
In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga was sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The "Baker Test" blast took place at 8:35 am local time, and vaporised the 200-foot-long (61 m) weapons ship USS LSM-60, located directly above the bomb, and immediately sank the USS Arkansas.
Prinz Eugen. Prinz Eugen ( German pronunciation: [ˈpʁɪnts ɔʏˈɡeːn]) was an Admiral Hipper -class heavy cruiser, the third of a class of five vessels. She served with Nazi Germany 's Kriegsmarine during World War II. The ship was laid down in April 1936, launched in August 1938, and entered service after the outbreak of war, in August 1940.