France: Vichy French garrison (around 8,000 troops); eight coastal batteries, two armed merchant cruisers, five submarines and a handful of aircraft. Outcome: Allied forces gained control of the ...

with the idea that it could be converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser if the time called for it. One of the most dwelled upon aspects of the Titanic’s collision with the iceberg is that it was ...

It made headlines in February when it collided with a merchant ship near Egypt ... also “mistakenly fired” upon and shot down by the cruiser USS Gettysburg in the Red Sea in December; both ...

Truman, the nine squadrons of Carrier Air Wing 1, three guided-missile destroyers assigned to Destroyer Squadron 28, and the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64).

Royal Australian Navy ship HMAS Hobart, Leander-class light cruiser which served in the ... On the way, he recalled rescuing a merchant ship, Norah Moller, which was being attacked by repeated ...