Find link

language: af: Afrikaans als: Alemannisch [Alemannic] am: አማርኛ [Amharic] an: aragonés [Aragonese] ar: العربية [Arabic] arz: مصرى [Egyptian Arabic] as: অসমীয়া [Assamese] ast: asturianu [Asturian] az: azərbaycanca [Azerbaijani] azb: تۆرکجه [Southern Azerbaijani] ba: башҡортса [Bashkir] bar: Boarisch [Bavarian] bat-smg: žemaitėška [Samogitian] be: беларуская [Belarusian] be-tarask: беларуская (тарашкевіца) [Belarusian (Taraškievica)] bg: български [Bulgarian] bn: বাংলা [Bengali] bpy: বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী [Bishnupriya Manipuri] br: brezhoneg [Breton] bs: bosanski [Bosnian] bug: ᨅᨔ ᨕᨘᨁᨗ [Buginese] ca: català [Catalan] ce: нохчийн [Chechen] ceb: Cebuano ckb: کوردیی ناوەندی [Kurdish (Sorani)] cs: čeština [Czech] cv: Чӑвашла [Chuvash] cy: Cymraeg [Welsh] da: dansk [Danish] de: Deutsch [German] el: Ελληνικά [Greek] en: English eo: Esperanto es: español [Spanish] et: eesti [Estonian] eu: euskara [Basque] fa: فارسی [Persian] fi: suomi [Finnish] fo: føroyskt [Faroese] fr: français [French] fy: Frysk [West Frisian] ga: Gaeilge [Irish] gd: Gàidhlig [Scottish Gaelic] gl: galego [Galician] gu: ગુજરાતી [Gujarati] he: עברית [Hebrew] hi: हिन्दी [Hindi] hr: hrvatski [Croatian] hsb: hornjoserbsce [Upper Sorbian] ht: Kreyòl ayisyen [Haitian] hu: magyar [Hungarian] hy: Հայերեն [Armenian] ia: interlingua [Interlingua] id: Bahasa Indonesia [Indonesian] io: Ido is: íslenska [Icelandic] it: italiano [Italian] ja: 日本語 [Japanese] jv: Basa Jawa [Javanese] ka: ქართული [Georgian] kk: қазақша [Kazakh] kn: ಕನ್ನಡ [Kannada] ko: 한국어 [Korean] ku: Kurdî [Kurdish (Kurmanji)] ky: Кыргызча [Kirghiz] la: Latina [Latin] lb: Lëtzebuergesch [Luxembourgish] li: Limburgs [Limburgish] lmo: lumbaart [Lombard] lt: lietuvių [Lithuanian] lv: latviešu [Latvian] map-bms: Basa Banyumasan [Banyumasan] mg: Malagasy min: Baso Minangkabau [Minangkabau] mk: македонски [Macedonian] ml: മലയാളം [Malayalam] mn: монгол [Mongolian] mr: मराठी [Marathi] mrj: кырык мары [Hill Mari] ms: Bahasa Melayu [Malay] my: မြန်မာဘာသာ [Burmese] mzn: مازِرونی [Mazandarani] nah: Nāhuatl [Nahuatl] nap: Napulitano [Neapolitan] nds: Plattdüütsch [Low Saxon] ne: नेपाली [Nepali] new: नेपाल भाषा [Newar] nl: Nederlands [Dutch] nn: norsk nynorsk [Norwegian (Nynorsk)] no: norsk bokmål [Norwegian (Bokmål)] oc: occitan [Occitan] or: ଓଡ଼ିଆ [Oriya] os: Ирон [Ossetian] pa: ਪੰਜਾਬੀ [Eastern Punjabi] pl: polski [Polish] pms: Piemontèis [Piedmontese] pnb: پنجابی [Western Punjabi] pt: português [Portuguese] qu: Runa Simi [Quechua] ro: română [Romanian] ru: русский [Russian] sa: संस्कृतम् [Sanskrit] sah: саха тыла [Sakha] scn: sicilianu [Sicilian] sco: Scots sh: srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски [Serbo-Croatian] si: සිංහල [Sinhalese] simple: Simple English sk: slovenčina [Slovak] sl: slovenščina [Slovenian] sq: shqip [Albanian] sr: српски / srpski [Serbian] su: Basa Sunda [Sundanese] sv: svenska [Swedish] sw: Kiswahili [Swahili] ta: தமிழ் [Tamil] te: తెలుగు [Telugu] tg: тоҷикӣ [Tajik] th: ไทย [Thai] tl: Tagalog tr: Türkçe [Turkish] tt: татарча/tatarça [Tatar] uk: українська [Ukrainian] ur: اردو [Urdu] uz: oʻzbekcha/ўзбекча [Uzbek] vec: vèneto [Venetian] vi: Tiếng Việt [Vietnamese] vo: Volapük wa: walon [Walloon] war: Winaray [Waray] yi: ייִדיש [Yiddish] yo: Yorùbá [Yoruba] zh: 中文 [Chinese] zh-min-nan: Bân-lâm-gú [Min Nan] zh-yue: 粵語 [Cantonese]

jump to random article

Longer titles found: Dachou-class torpedo retriever/target ship (view), Dubei-class target ship (view), Type 917 torpedo retriever/target ship (view), Ōhama-class target ship (view), Japanese target ship Hakachi (view)

searching for Target ship 290 found (844 total)

alternate case: target ship

USS Killen (947 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and decommissioning on 9 July 1946. The veteran destroyer served as a target ship during the atom bomb tests in 1958 (Operation Hardtack I, shots WAHOO

from 1943 to 1946. She was used as a target ship in the 1946 atomic bomb tests and finally sunk as a target ship in October 1948. Skate was laid down

1947-1969 Used as target ship TsL-45 1948 Recommissioned as repair ship PM-63 1955 Scrapped 1969 EK-39 1947-1960 Used as target ship TsL-39 1948 Recommissioned

Navy's only active live-fire target ship in the Chesapeake Bay, by tradition it keeps the name of the original target ship on that site and is still referred

Ukraina was salvaged in 1947 and then became a hulked. She became a target ship in 1950. The ships were essentially enlarged versions of the Svetlana-class

she served as Pará (D27). She was stricken in 1979 and was sunk as a target ship in 1983. After shakedown training at Guantanamo Bay, Guest made a cruise

firing at the target ship's broadside and thus more likely to miss the target ship to one side or the other, an individual cannon shot that hit would pass

Iranian Fars News Agency released a footage of the missile hitting a target ship successfully. The missile was first tested during the Great Prophet III

Australia in 1933. All the remaining ships except Bruce (expended as a target ship in 1939) survived service in World War II, being converted to escort

used as target ship. J9 Gävle 1941 Göteborg Decommissioned in 1968 J10 Norrköping 1941 Göteborg Decommissioned in 1965. Later used as target ship. J11 Visby

Sirius was sold in 2005, Spica was used as a target ship and sunk in 2009 and Saturn was used as a target ship and sunk in 2010. List of auxiliaries of the

served with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. She was sunk as a target ship during Operation Crossroads in July 1946. Carlisle was named after a

and after the war Banckert was reacquired and eventually expended as a target ship in the Madura Strait in September 1949. "IJN Patrol Boat No. 106: Tabular

Mare Island Navy Yard for retention by conversion to a radio-controlled target ship. This was in accordance with the Navy's decision to fit out a unit of

the target ship looking back at the submarine. Relative bearing of the submarine is the clockwise angle in degrees from the heading of the target ship to

three probable sinkings. MacLeish served the first 3 months of 1944 as a target ship for marine torpedo planes off Key West. Following overhaul, she returned

In service with the Marina Militare until 1975, Aviere was sunk as a target ship in 1975. Nicholson was laid down on 1 November 1939 by Boston Naval Shipyard

was raised in 1947 and was used as a training hulk before becoming a target ship in 1950. Chervona Ukraina displaced 8,400 long tons (8,500 t) at deep

1903 (List) Decommissioned: 12 December 1919 (List) Fate: Sunk as a target ship Operations: Torpedo testing, training, peace time patrol. Moved to Philippines

battles at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Following the war, New York was used as a target ship in Operation Crossroads and sunk as a target in 1948, while Texas was

October 1918. She was offered for sale after the war, but was used as a target ship when there were no takers. She was sold for scrap in 1928. Glatton was

sank at Portchester, Hampshire. In November 1844, she was in use as a target ship by HMS Excellent. She was sold out of the service in 1845. Lavery, Ships

of a paper plotter in the former, which could plot both own ship and target ship movement and record the mean point of impact of the salvoes fired. The

Havana in October 1915. In 1916, the torpedo boat was designated as a target ship and 10 March 1916 her name was struck from the Navy list. "USS MacKenzie

of the war against such targets on 15 October 1918. She was used as a target ship after several attempts to sell her had fallen through before being sold

USS G-1 (SS-19½) was the lead ship of her class of submarine of the United States Navy. While the four G-boats were nominally all of a class, they differed

target ship, ex-DD-152 USS J. Fred Talbott (AG-81), target ship, ex-DD-156 USS Schenck (AG-82), target ship, ex-DD-159 USS Kennison (AG-83), target ship

cannon to shoot masts, or to cut the shrouds and any other rigging of a target ship.[citation needed] When fired, after leaving the muzzle, the shot's components

Plunger-class submarine at Cavite Navy Yard, Philippines, disposed of as a target ship and stricken in 1922 July 25  United States Navy A-5 SS-6 Plunger-class

was used as a boom defense hulk from 1910 to 1920, when she became a target ship. She survived until 1938, when she was sold for scrapping. The origin

1947 at Nakhodka, renamed Vozrozhdionny (Возрождённый), converted to target ship TsL-25 (1949) and depot ship PM-65 (1957), scrapped in 1969. Sugi 5487

1947. Served in Soviet Pacific Ocean Fleet as patrol ship EK-45 (1947), target ship TsL-45 (1948), repair ship PM-63 (1955). Decommissioned on 25 January

On 22 June her crew transferred to USS Bexar (APA-237). Designated a target ship for the experiments, she survived an atomic blast 18 July. Gasconade

HMS Agamemnon (1906) was a Lord Nelson-class battleship launched in 1906, used as a target ship from 1920 and sold in 1927. HMS Agamemnon (M10) MV Agamemnon was requisitioned

dropping of the atomic bomb. In 1946 Rapid commissioned as an air training target ship and attendant destroyer to aircraft carriers. In February 1947 she was

as a target ship 28 May 1971 Whiteside AKA-90 1190 MDD 22 Apr 1944 12 Jun 1944 11 Sep 1944 30 Jan 1958 stricken 1 Jul 1961 sunk as a target ship 1971

fire control problem to the movement of one's own ship and that of a target ship. It was often used with other devices, such as a Vickers range clock

reparations; Thüringen was transferred to France in April 1920 and used as a target ship for the French Navy. She was sunk off Gavres and broken up in situ in

scrapped. By the late 1930s Sabre had been de-militarised for use as a target ship. With the outbreak of World War II, she was returned to service in 1939

USS Beaufort (PCS-1387) – initially known as USS PCS-1387 -- was a PCS-1376-class submarine chaser acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. Although

on 17 July 1942. The ship converted into a submarine rescue bell and target ship, and renamed HMS Kingfisher in April 1954. Decommissioned in 1960, the

stricken from the naval register in 1906; Deutschland was used as a target ship before being sold for scrap in 1908, though Kaiser served on as a floating

towed to the Pacific to perform her last service; she was sunk as a target ship as part of Exercise Valiant Shield 2007. She sank at 11°16′00″N 143°53′00″E

1939 Launched: 9 January 1940 Completed: 29 May 1940 Fate: Aircraft target ship August 1945 to 1947. Paid off 1947, and broken up 7 November 1956. Garth

a target ship for multiple F-16s fired Harpoon missiles and was hit. In the exercise of Han Kuang 36 on July 15, 2020, she served as a target ship for

1947. Served in Soviet Pacific Ocean Fleet as patrol ship EK-32 (1947), target ship TsL-63 (1954), repair ship PM-75 (1957). Decommissioned on 23 July 1958

Harbor Naval Base. Reeves remained in mothballs until she was sunk as a target ship on 31 May 2001. The second Reeves, DLG-24, was laid down 1 July 1960

Francis Garnier until 1965. Francis Garnier was then declassed to become a target ship. She was sunk during a nuclear test in the Pacific Ocean in 1966. East

the new torpedo boat destroyers, she became an experimental submarine target ship in 1906, and was sold in 1910. Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby in 1885

Chatham in 1976, she was assigned to HMS Neptune as a submarine tender, target ship and tug. She was replaced by HMS Sentinel and decommissioned on 30 October

before being withdrawn from active service in 1910. She was used as a target ship after 1911, until she was sold in 1919 and broken up for scrap. The Sachsen

22 September 1831 at Woolwich Dockyard. She was hulked in 1863 as a target ship at Portsmouth. Thunderer was renamed twice in quick succession: first

defense ship. From 1912 to 1919, she was used by the High Seas Fleet as a target ship; she was sold for scrapping in 1919 and broken up that year. Following

World War II Fletcher Class Destroyer USS Killen (DD593) served as a target ship for wreckage during the atom bomb tests in Operation Hardtack I (shots

moving target. The torpedo is fired to cross behind the stern of the target ship, through the wake. As it does so, it uses sonar to look for changes in

on 1 March 1941. Reduced to two funnels and rearmed, she served as a target ship, a convoy escort, and served in an anti-submarine warfare role. She was

based at Kiel, U-670 collided during training in the Baltic Sea with the target ship Bolkoburg and sank on 20 August 1943. Of her crew of 43, 22 survived

fire torpedoes and expect the magnetic influence exploder to sink the target ship. When the torpedoes did not explode, they started to believe the magnetic

service following the end of the war, becoming a control boat for the target ship Hessen in 1932 when she was renamed Blitz. She was ceded to the Soviet

launched on 18 December 1832 at Chatham Dockyard. She was used as a target ship from 1862, and broken up in 1866. Lavery, Ships of the Line Vol. 1, p

Other notes 7 May  United States Navy Alabama Illinois-class battleship Target ship 10 May  United States Navy Kearsarge Kearsarge-class battleship Conversion

vessel NoCGV Tromsø. HNoMS Trondheim was used after decommissioning as a target ship for the testing of Norway's 'Naval Strike Missile', and sank on June

numbers of fire control stations in their networks. Depending on where the target ship was located and upon other tactical conditions, one or more of these

torpedoed, although post-war flags have sometimes used the silhouette of the target ship instead. Mines indicated minelaying operations, while torches or lighthouses

Stingray, Dodge has fired two live torpedoes at 900 yards (820 m) into a target ship anchored in Norfolk Harbor, thereby humiliating Graham and winning the

PQ-14, but a month later, she was allocated for duty as an aircraft target ship in the Firth of Forth. She refitted at Leith between December 1942 and

December 1946 near Jutland. Z30 15 April 1940 15 November 1941 Taken by Norway after the war and given to Britain. Used as target ship and scrapped in 1949.

team was composed of a "guard team" to board and wrest control of the target ship, and a "search team", to conduct the search. The ships were authorized

O 14 arrived in Rothesay, Bute, and with O 9 and O 10 was used as a target ship during tests with the ASDIC sonar system. From 22 December 1940, O 14

Ohama, a former branch line of the Hankai Tramway Ōhama-class target ship, a bombing target ship class of the Imperial Japanese Navy serving during World War

shot needed to be observed and corrections made before firing again. A target ship moving at 18 knots (33 km/h) traveled 0.15 nautical miles (0.28 km) in

Target (IX-37). Due to faulty boilers, however, her conversion to a target ship was cancelled, and she was replaced by Kilty (DD-137). She recovered

in London, after which her weaponry was removed and she served as a target ship for aircraft from the Air Station, Fearn, Scotland, and continued in

decommissioned from Turkish Navy in December 2017 and destroyed as a target ship during trials of new Turkish Indigenous Torpedo AKYA on 27.12.2023 [1]

needed] 29 July  United States Navy Arkansas Wyoming-class battleship Target ship [citation needed] 31 July  United States Navy Manila Bay Casablanca-class

533-millimeter (21 in) torpedo tubes. She became the training ship Oskol in 1949, target ship TsL-64 in 1955 and finally floating barracks PKZ-37, scrapped in 1969

she returned to Boston 29 December, she served as a submarine training target ship out of New London, Connecticut. Thence she sailed 21 February 1945 for

remained berthed at Mare Island Naval Shipyard until she was selected as a target ship in a SINKEX exercise on 14 October 2000. Ashtabula was subjected to eight

destroyed a target ship with a SST-4 Mod 0 fired from the TCG Yildiray.[citation needed] In 2020 the Hellenic Navy destroyed a target ship with a SST-4

October 1943 Burwell was withdrawn to the Reserve and converted to an Air target Ship. She continued in this function until January 1945 when she was withdrawn

trials, and, after another yard period, April to August, served as a target ship for training aircraft from the Royal Naval Air Station at Fearn, Scotland

was captured by the Soviet Union at the end of the war and sunk as a target ship in 1947. After 1933, the Kriegsmarine began to examine the possibility

AGM-12 Bullpup, built under license by Kongsberg) detonates inside the target ship by using a delay fuze. The MK3, when launched from high altitudes, can

(Rare) 1941 Scrapped 1962 Razyashchy Разящий (Furious) 1938 1941 sunk as target ship 1961 Reshitelny Решительный (Decisive) 1939 1941 sold to China 1955 first

then arrived at New London, Connecticut on 30 September to serve as target ship for submarines. She departed on 12 November; and, after visiting Boston

States Navy Belleau Wood Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship Sunk as a target ship in 2006 12 November  Royal Australian Navy Canberra Adelaide-class frigate

of time the missile is under the horizon from the perspective of the target ship, making it harder to detect due to radar clutter from the sea and similar

Isles on antisubmarine duty. In January 1945, she became an aircraft target ship under orders of the Rear Admiral, Northern Air Stations. Newark was scrapped

redesignated USS Ford County (LST-772). Ford County was destroyed as a target ship on 19 March 1958 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register that same

assault on Gold Beach. Following the war she was employed as an aircraft target ship in December 1945. She then transferred to the Reserve Fleet at Devonport

officers and crewmen. Settsu was disarmed in 1922 and converted into a target ship. She was heavily damaged in 1945 by American carrier aircraft and eventually

training, Fogg sailed out of Norfolk between 2 and 30 June 1945, acting as target ship in battle problems with a cruiser, serving as plane guard for a carrier

refitted at Midway until 4 August, then departed for Saipan to serve as target ship for surface force training exercises. From 7 September 1945 until 12

refitted at Midway until 4 August, then departed for Saipan to serve as target ship for surface force training exercises. From 7 September 1945 until 12

Beitzen (1937-1949) Survey ship Meteor (1924–1945) Radio-controlled target ship Zähringen (1902–1945) Germany portal NV Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw

then reverted to the British, and after repairs, served as an aircraft target ship from June 1943 until placed in reserve in January 1945. Newport was scrapped

North Sea and English Channel. After August 1945 she was used as an air target ship at Rosyth. She was subsequently placed in reserve at Chatham. She was

A-3 Wickes-class destroyer ex-Grampus; decommissioned and used as a target ship [citation needed] 7 August  United States Navy Abel P. Upshur Clemson-class

and ordered to Key West, Fla. For the next 4 years she operated as a target ship for experimental antisubmarine warfare projects of Operational Development

the ship with the force of the explosion directed to the bottom of the target ship.[citation needed] Technical data are: 4.46 m (14.6 ft) length, 40 centimetres

Azores. After refitting at Belfast in September 1943, Broadway became a target ship for aircraft and served as such at Rosyth in Scotland until the war ended

possible, and the converted ferry HMAS Burra-Bra was often used as a target ship. One of 6 OTU's instructors recalled: "The attacks were as spectacular

September of that year, returned to action in May 1944, and served as a target ship for aircraft in the Western Approaches Command. In August 1945, Clare

is in remembrance of a former battleship that had been converted to a target ship in 1931 (thus, at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack carried the designation

1945, Whipple was redesignated an auxiliary, AG-117. After acting as a target ship for submarines off New London, the erstwhile destroyer entered the New

because they lacked bombsights. Each flight mechanic fired at their target ship with a ventral machine gun during the approach to discourage anti-aircraft

and commissioned 9 May 1944. After operating on the east coast as a target ship in submarine training, and as a training ship for prospective escort

Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka aircraft, used for kamikaze attacks, within range of a target ship. Germany also planned a jet-carrying bomber, called the Daimler-Benz

the war her armament was removed and she was converted to an aircraft target ship serving in the Mediterranean. However, by the end of 1946 she had been

put out of action by the first burst of .50 caliber machine guns. The target ship then received a direct hit with a shell from either Pillsbury or the

the target ship. Flak was heavy, but only one PBY sustained minor damage. The two heavy cruisers were identified as battleships, the target ship thought

ship proper, instead impacting the sea; this could still damage the target ship, as the shell may have enough energy to impact beneath the waterline

the escort ship Ikazuchi was conducted with the Asuka acting as the target ship. In response to the Great East Japan Earthquake caused by the Tōhoku-Pacific

decommissioned 10 December and stripped. On 22 May 1947 Mallard was used as a target ship and sunk by torpedo fire from Piper (SS-409).  This article incorporates

Portales Acquired 8 January 1974 Identification DD-17 Fate Used as a target ship off Cape Horn on 11 November 1998 General characteristics Class and type

16 September 1977, its hull receiving No. Q580. It was then used as a target ship for testing an ARMAT anti-radar missile on 16 June 1982. It was sunk

ship SMS Oldenburg, which had been disarmed when it was converted to a target ship about 1912. One obvious change made for land service was the placement

aircraft. In October 1944 Castleton was relegated to duty as an Air Target ship. She was paid off in March 1945 and sold for scrap in January 1948. Lenton&Colledge

the "Near Miss". If this feature is enabled, a shot directly next to a target ship will display a larger splash and play a beeping noise. Next, there are

the island and a target ship to massive explosions, with 500 tons of conventional TNT detonated on the island near the target ship USS Atlanta (CL-104)

Virginia 5 January 1946, from 28 April to 5 September she served as a target ship for torpedo bombing practice off the Florida coast until ordered to Orange

1898 10 June 1899 7 November 1905 Stricken 26 November 1915 and used as target ship 1915; sold 18 March 1923. TB-20 Goldsborough Wolf & Zwicker, Portland

Pearl Harbor on 20 May, and reached Bikini on the 29th to serve as a target ship. She survived the tests of 1 July and 25 July. On 24 August, she was

ship taken out of service, after a fire incident in 2003, & sunk as a target ship in 2007) Huracan class - 2 Valle class - 10 (11, 10 ships still active

500-pound (230 kg) plunge bomb, intended to be dropped alongside the target ship and detonate underwater, holing the target vessel below the waterline

boat of the series, PBR-512, was decommissioned in 1972 and sunk as a target ship in 1983 in the vicinity of the Bay of Kotor. The boat was targeted with

cruiser Prinz Eugen in nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll in 1946 as a target ship for the Operation Crossroads. Some (like the unfinished aircraft carrier

Kiel on 2 June 1945 together with HMS Obedient In 1946 Offa served as a target ship for submarines, until being placed in reserve at Devonport in February

moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she served for a month as target ship for the Atlantic Fleet Torpedo Squadron Training School. Near the end

installation of Hedgehog. After refit, she served during 1943 and 1944 as target ship for naval aircraft training in the Western Approaches and at Rosyth,

arriving New York on 8 October, Laning served as a practice torpedo target ship out of New London, Connecticut, from 15 October until 22 November when

Corvette #INSPrabal, homes on with deadly accuracy at max range, sinking target ship: Indian Navy". 23 October 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2024. "Navy Shaurya Smarak

Early in 1945, after refitting at the Clyde in late 1944, she became a target ship for aircraft training with the Western Approaches Command, a role in

March 1947 Transferred to Venezuela, June 1962, Scuttled. Used as a target ship Originally ordered as LST-1151 ARL-40 Remus 28 July 1942 10 October 1942

was returned to the Royal Navy at Rosyth. In 1946 she was used as a target ship off Portsmouth. Her remains were sold for scrap and in August 1947 she

stricken from the naval register in 1906; Deutschland was used as a target ship before being sold for scrap in 1908, though Kaiser served on as a floating

be shown and no life will be spared in an attack. When closing on a target ship, the pirate ship would normally fly a false flag or no colours until

extensive machinery trials, at the same time as being used as an air target ship under the Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth. In January 1947 Z38 was at full

1970. After being struck from the Navy List, Tolman was utilized as a target ship up and down the California coast for many years. Since Tolman was decommissioned

December 1966 Honours and awards 2 battle stars (World War II) Fate Sunk as target ship General characteristics Class and type Auk-class minesweeper Displacement

for overhaul in May 1944, Carlson trained with submarines and acted as target ship and plane guard for aircraft in the Hawaiian area from June through September

on this duty until February 1946, when she commenced preparation as a target ship for Operation Crossroads, the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. She

installation was unsuccessful, and the ship was decommissioned and used as a target ship in 1961. Dzerzhinsky had a surface-to-air missile (SAM) launcher for

1992 and struck 11 January 1995. On 10 July 2002, she was sunk as a target ship as part of the RIMPAC training exercises. Friedman, pp. 357–60, 425 Gardiner

she arrived at Provincetown, Massachusetts, the 20th. After service as target ship for training operations of Torpedo Squadron 13, the escort ship sailed

Northwestern Approaches. Between 1946 and 1949 she was used as a submarine target ship in the Clyde. The ship was paid off early in 1950 and put on the Disposal

testing in mid-1944 at Naval Air Station New York, where it hit its target ship in two out of four drops. The Bat was the production version which combined

serving as a gunnery training ship, a floating barracks, and finally a target ship until being decommissioned in 1952. She sold for scrap in October 1959

submarines of the RNN, during these exercises Mercuur functions mostly as target ship. The exercises are regularly held in the Norwegian fjords. Another task

operations, crossing the Arctic Circle. Shortly thereafter, she served as target ship for submarines training off New London, Connecticut. On 10 November 1947

along the west coast. Blue was stricken 1 February 1974, and sunk as a target ship during a missile exercise off southern California on 28 April 1977. Blue

reclassified AG-105 on 5 June 1945. The veteran ship was assigned as a target ship for bombing tests and was sunk off San Diego on 8 November 1945. Hogan

Flotilla from 24 July 1941. U-580 was sunk after a collision with the target ship Angelburg in the Baltic Sea on 11 November 1941. Twelve men died and

Charleston 9 October and arrived at Key West 2 days later to act as target ship for Fleet Air Wing 5. She rescued two downed aviators 24 November and

assigned for duty under Commander, Air Force, Atlantic Fleet, as a torpedo target ship for aircraft. Reclassified AG-82 effective 25 September 1944, she provided

scrapped in 1924 and Prinz Eugen being handed over to France and sunk as a target ship in 1922. The Ersatz Monarch class (literally Replacement Monarch class)

11 October 1901 Reclassified as torpedo-boat 17 January 1921. Used as target ship 1923–24 Renamed Strale 9 September 1924 Disposed of 13 November 1924

then until July 1945, she alternated between carrier escort duty and target ship duty with AirLant. On 20 July 1945, Tarbell was placed out of commission

Shipbuilding, Jarrow, 1953–1954 Paid off 1974. Foundered while in use as a target ship in 1974. Wizard F72 Royal Dockyard, Devonport, 1954 Broken up 1967 Wrangler

Peleng (535) KRI Teluk Jakarta (541) (534) sank in 2012 after used as target ship for Yakhont missile during Armada Jaya XXXI Exercise. (535) foundered

1906 20 September 1906 6 March 1907 Reclassified as a radio-controlled target ship, January 1929 Month of Deutzia (April) Minatsuki 水無月 Mitsubishi shipyards

attacked by ramming her intended target, which stuck the torpedo to the target ship by means of a barb on the front of the torpedo. The torpedo boat would

that served in the First World War until surrendered to France; sunk as target ship on 7 June 1921 During the First World War, Germany also had this submarine

Operating out of Pearl Harbor, the aged ex-battleship, converted to a target ship, served the fleet as the major antiaircraft training ship, as well as

to moderate depths in support of undersea weapons testing, and as a target ship to train Trident missile submarine crews off the coast of Washington

Rocket was at Chatham and between 1946 and 1948 she was used as an air target ship at Rosyth. In 1949 she was placed into reserve at Portsmouth. Between

Fate HTMS Trad 11 9 February 1934 26 October 1935 19 April 1936 Sunk as target ship by Gabriel launches from HTMS Harn Hak Satru and HTMS Prab Porapak, with

Bonite, damaging both. Alose was stricken in May 1914 and was used as a target ship, being sunk off Fréjus in March 1918. In 1975 the wreck was discovered

The pilot would steer the assault craft on a collision course at his target ship, and then would jump from his boat before impact and warhead detonation

After World War II Parche, was assigned to Operation Crossroads as a target ship for the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. Parche survived both the airburst

wreckage of a target ship in a shallow bay at the bombing range, however, revealed its identity to be that of the USS Killen, a target ship in nuclear tests

1950, though received a refit at Gibraltar in 1948. In 1951 she was a target ship for the 3rd Submarine Flotilla, based at Rothesay. Between 1953 and 1954

In November 1945 Penn was in the East Indies, being used as an Air Target Ship. In February 1947 she was still part of the British Pacific Fleet and

HSwMS Göteborg sinking after being used as a target ship

to the United States. In the spring of 1946 Briscoe was assigned as a target ship for Operation Crossroads, the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. She

successfully against anchors with stocks. In November 1907, she was made a target ship and was sunk off the Kentish Knock on 18 February 1908. Player's Navy

heavy loss of life. In early 1945 Anthony was converted into an air target ship, to train new aircrew in warship identification, and methods of attack

ex-Hissem as a target ship in 1981. The submarine HMS Courageous is visible on the right.

Kinesaki #5401–5407 #5401–5407 J20C #5408 #5408 J35 #5409–5410 #5409–5410 Target ship Ōhama #5411–5415 Ōhama (#5411) #5412–5415 Repair ship Akashi #5416–5417

Reserve in May 1894. She was paid off in May 1900 and converted into a target ship. After surviving gunfire from HMS Majestic in which shells filled with

Mersey for a refit and in November of that year was commissioned as a target ship for the 3rd Submarine Flotilla at Rothesay. Between January 1951 and

atoll in the summer of 1946. On the morning of 1 July 1946, Gilliam, a target ship for Test Able, was the first ship struck by the blast and sunk quickly

USS Ford under fire as a target ship off Guam, 1 October 2019

explosion, but she was soon repaired. In 1944 however, she became a gunnery target ship and remained in service in that capacity until the 1950s. In 1957 it

Reparation to the USSR, 1949 as destroyer Liotny (Лётный), sunk as target ship 1959 Ghibli Navalmeccanica 28 February 1943 Seized by the Germans in

clearing the Thames and Medway estuaries in 1946. She was used as a target ship in the Gareloch, sold for scrap on 27 June 1949 and finally broken up

HMS Berwick (F115) was a Rothesay-class frigate launched in 1961 and sunk as a target ship in 1986. This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar

Members of the visit, board, search, and seizure from the Laboon approach a target ship

she was the oldest submarine in service. She was later expended as a target ship off Toulon. In 1985, Espadon became the first French submarine used as

Reclassified Harbour training ship between 1976 and 1979 Fate Sunk as a target ship in 1980 General characteristics Class and type Porpoise class submarine

Treaty, stricken from the navy list during 1923 and converted into a target ship. Her guns were turned over to the Imperial Japanese Army for use as coastal

hulk in 1832. In 1835 she was used in a series of gunnery trials as a target ship, the results of which contributed to the rapid introduction of the shell

served as a target ship before being broken up in late 1946 and 1947, respectively. Like her sisters, Highlander served as a target ship after her repairs

000 to 3,000 feet (600 to 900 m). Mitchell also planned to sink the target ship with several very close near-miss explosions that would cause severe

New York capsizes after serving as a target ship off Hawaii, 8 July 1948.

stricken from the Navy List on 20 September 1923 and converted into a target ship. Satsuma was sunk by the battleships Mutsu and Nagato off the southern

contracted to the Alloa Shipbreaking, which the Admiralty had used as a target ship and sunk by mistake. Foreseeing the possibilities of another war in Europe

16 February, and then at Pearl Harbor, she was prepared for use as a target ship in Operation Crossroads, the atomic weapons tests at Bikini Atoll. She

also assisted in Operation Sailor Hat off the coast of Kahoolawe with target ship moorings. She was again en route to WestPac on 17 August 1965 for operations

and defined tactics that included a night-time approach so that the target ship would be less able to defend itself. Fiske determined that the notional

25 October 1942 29 December 1943 Sunk in air attack, 7 April 1945 Sakawa 21 November 1942 9 April 1944 30 November 1944 Sunk as target ship, 2 July 1946

sinking exercises (SINKEX) using the decommissioned BRP Lake Caliraya as a target ship. The Lawrence Narag fired a Spike-NLOS missile and successfully hit the

January 1946, she replaced the old destroyer Brilliant as submarine target ship. On 24 August 1946, the Dutch motorship Nigerstroom was in collision

Recommissioned 20 March 1951 Decommissioned 22 October 1954 Fate Sunk as a target ship General characteristics Class and type Adroit-class minesweeper Displacement

July 2019, her together with her sister ship Chung Pang served as a target ship for multiple F-16s fired Harpoon missiles and was hit. LST-503 have earned

unit. She took up her new duties in January, and, in February, acted as target ship for Mero despite heavy seas which rolled the minesweeper up to 50 degrees

exercises, including with the submarine divisions where she served as a target ship. She also served as a station ship for aircraft. She returned to San

to Turkey as TCG Zafer (F253). Decommissioned, the ship was sunk as a target ship as part of Turkish Navy exercise Beyaz Fırtına 2016. "TCG Zafer F253"

escort reported at New London, Connecticut, for two weeks' duty as a target ship for submarine exercises off New London. Moving from New London to Norfolk

However, during a naval exercise on 12 July 1981 she was assigned as target ship for Harpoon missile testing. She was struck by two Harpoons, one launched

December 1952 27 February 1954 15 September 1954 28 May 1980 Sank as target ship in 1981 Kuguar Kaliningrad 27 March 1953 31 December 1953 31 August 1954

Stockton transferred to the Royal Navy in 1940. She was expended as a target ship in 1945. This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar

Squadron 2. She was decommissioned on 28 August 1946, and was used as a target ship in the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb test. Following the test she

1978 28 June 1980 5 December 1981 Decommissioned June 2024; sunk as a target ship in December 2024 F 793 Commandant Blaison 15 November 1979 7 March 1981

towards Grønlia, where they placed limpets on the ship Tugela. Another target ship, Winrich von Kniprode, was abandoned because the area was lit due to

had been repaired, and she then worked out of the Firth of Forth as a target ship. After an overhaul in Leith and service from Dundee, she was ordered

On 6 June 1989, while she was acting as an anti-submarine training target ship, she came in contact with the seabed of the Tsugaru Straits, damaging

Atoll in the Marshalls, the location of the tests, arriving 31 May. A target ship, Niagara survived the atomic explosions of 1 and 25 July. She departed

21 July 1917 Captured Surrendered to France at Cherbourg Fate Sunk as target ship at Cherbourg, 7 June 1921 General characteristics Class and type Type

the class, Améthyste. In September 2001, the boat torpedoed and sank a target ship, the decommissioned destroyer D'Estrées, off Toulon. On 6 March 2015

January 1912 Stricken 6 April 1912 Identification TB-18 Fate Sunk as target ship, fall 1920 General characteristics Class and type MacKenzie-class torpedo

Ex-USS Sioux (ATF-75) - decommissioned in December 2017 & destroyed as a target ship on December 27, 2023 Değirmendere-class offshore tug (Ex- Tenace class):

pennant number AG-5 Captured by US forces, 21 February 1900 Fate Sunk as a target ship, 17 July 1929 General characteristics Type cargo ship Tonnage as built:

the dice was more than 6, then a point of damage is deducted from the target ship. If any of the damage dice is a 6, this may result in a critical hit

Named USS Lyman County (LST-903) on 1 July 1955, she was designated a target ship on 20 October 1958. Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register

and independent ship's exercises. Frequently, however, she served as target ship for submarines engaged in training and as school ship for the Fleet Sonar

Bankruptcy Court. She was re-acquired by the Navy for disposition as a target ship, stricken 1 June 1990 and was "Disposed of in support of Fleet training

explode altogether – sometimes bouncing harmlessly off the hull of the target ship. This was most evident in Operation Weserübung, the invasion of Norway

was returned to the U.S. Navy at Philadelphia. Retained for use as a target ship until after the end of the war in Europe, R-17 was struck from the Naval

successful kamikaze attack would both kill the plane's pilot and damage the target ship, possibly even sinking it. Related tactics included the kaiten suicide

long, straight course at a constant altitude of 30 m (98 ft) toward the target ship before launching its torpedo. Torpedoes were very complicated weapons

reports he saw a 3-inch (7.6 cm) square piece of LSM-60 on the deck of a target ship afterward. Photo gallery of USS LSM-60 at NavSource Naval History The

over five days, with an extremely low hit rate, failing to sink the target ship, demonstrating that a ship armed with these guns could not fire accurately

Yakaze  Imperial Japanese Navy World War II: Attack on Yokosuka: The target ship/patrol boat, a former Minekaze-class destroyer, was damaged by near misses

Battle of Tsushima in 1905 by the Japanese and renamed Iki. Sunk as a target ship in 1915. Russian battleship Imperator Nikolai I (1916) - Dreadnought

Battle of Tsushima in 1905 by the Japanese and renamed Iki. Sunk as a target ship in 1915. Russian battleship Imperator Nikolai I (1916) - Dreadnought

(T-18) Acquired June 1962 Out of service 1970 Fate Scuttled. Used as a target ship General characteristics Class and type Achelous-class repair ship Displacement

to operate the rudders and other controls. Having arrived under the target ship, the captain would reach out through a gutta percha (rubber) glove fixed

recovering radio-controlled drones in gunnery exercises, and serving as target ship for submarines and surface ships were Etlah's usual employment until

Yastreb reportedly became a training ship on 17 February 1956. It became a target ship on 31 August 1956 and was then sold for scrap on 12 September 1959. Orel

knots. Combined with the long range of the guns, this meant that the target ship could move a considerable distance, several ship lengths, between the

and defined tactics that included a night-time approach so that the target ship would be less able to defend itself. Fiske imagined the notional torpedo

Vietnamese cargo ship MV Diamond Falcon from succeeding in capturing the target ship. On 6 March 2011, she aided the destroyer Bulkeley in the capture of

Commissioned 22 January 1943 Stricken 15 September 1977 Fate Sunk as target ship, 16 January 1991 General characteristics Class and type Chanticleer-class

Royal Norwegian Navy between 1941 and 1942 and then became an aircraft target ship in 1943. She was sold for scrapping in 1947. This article includes a

1975 15 July 1976 10 March 1995 Stricken and sank in 2012 after used as target ship for Yakhont missile during Armada Jaya XXXI Exercise. Ex-Eberswalde-Finow

redesignated as a training ship on 12 May 1947. Krasny Kavkaz was assigned as a target ship for testing of KS-1 Komet (AS-1 Kennel) anti-shipping missile in 1951

MV Athelsultan 1929 Sunk by torpedo 1942 RFA Bacchus 1915 Sunk as a target ship, 1938 MV Baron Dalmeny 1924 Scrapped 1960 SS British Holly 1917 Scrapped

until 1965, when she was returned to the US Navy, who sank her as a target ship on June 16, 1966, in a 6th Fleet exercise, Exercise Deep Six. Cocker

Etajima Island lest she sink. On 20 April she was assigned to serve as a target ship for kamikaze crews. Kaiyō resumed her pilot training duties a month later

January 1944 Scrapped 1971 Utah  United States Navy radio controlled target-ship and anti-aircraft training ship 21,825 31 August 1911 Former Florida-class

was decommissioned at Cavite on 12 December 1919. She was sunk as a target ship afterwards. Friedman, p. 306 Gardiner & Gray, p. 127 Price, Scott. "The

armored training cruisers Iwate and Izumo and the ex-battleship turned target ship Settsu were all heavily damaged and settled in shallow water. The shallow

the patterned protrusion were intended to break open the seams of the target ship while at the same time dispersing the force of impact on the attacking

1947. Served in Soviet Pacific Ocean Fleet as patrol ship EK-41 (1947), target ship TsL-41 (1948), oceanographic research ship Val (1949). Decommissioned

Video of Russian P-1000 Vulkan missile destroying a target ship

Baker, reported to New London, Connecticut, to serve as an escort and target ship for submarine training. Bronstein returned to patrol duty on 14 April

modifications at San Francisco Naval Shipyard she was converted to a target ship (reinstated as IX-304) to study the effects of high energy air explosions

duty as a school ship, again training gunnery personnel and acting as target ship and surface opponent for Pacific Fleet submarines. Later, she also served

decommissioned 15 December 1982, stricken 7 February 1990, and sunk as a target ship off the coast of Kauai on 10 April 1997, or may be 12 May 1997. List

Castle joined the 2nd Training Squadron, serving as an Air Training Target Ship, working with helicopters carrying out air-sea rescue training, cooperating

RFA Diligence acting as a target ship during a boarding exercise in 2011 History United Kingdom Name RFA Diligence Builder Öresundsvarvet AB, Landskrona

leaping or climbing onto the deck and a subsequent sustained fight. The target ship must also have enough deck space for boarders to be able to stand and

Shipyards Laid down 28 December 1936 Launched 8 December 1938 Fate Sunk as a target ship on 16 August 1947 General characteristics Class and type Graf Zeppelin-class

was sunk during the Battle of the Coral Sea and Saratoga was used as a target ship for the Bikini atomic experiments (Operation Crossroads). This disambiguation

remained busy practicing simulated submarine rescues and serving as target ship and recovery ship for submarines in torpedo-firing drills. In addition

successful of World War II submarines, performed her final service as a target ship for a new submarine torpedo. Blenny sank her with the newly developed

Navy Public Affairs Office (9 August 1965). "Don Jones serves aboard target ship". Daily Press (Victorville, California). pp. A-6. Retrieved 6 July 2024

disassembly for usable materials. In mid-June 2006, she served as a target ship for the Han Kuang 22 exercise for naval and air force training, and berthed

breakwater ships, Natsuzuki scrapped by the UK, Hanazuki was sunk as a target ship by the US, while Yoizuki and Harutsuki were sold to the Chinese and Russian

Atlantic Fleet, on 4 October. During the next three months, she served as a target ship for submarines conducting torpedo training. In January and February 1947

renamed Angelburg. Requisitioned in 1939 by the Kriegsmarine for use as a target ship by the 24th U-boat Flotilla. Participated in the evacuation of German

Decommissioned on 19 March 1945, she served as a school ship and then as a target ship. Her hulk was sunk by torpedo fire on 4 April 1946. Her remains were

By 1941, he had become a chief watertender on board the training and target ship USS Utah. On December 7, 1941, while the ship lay in Pearl Harbor, moored

Monticello as a target ship during RIMPAC 2010.

serving pre-dreadnought was the former SMS Hessen, which was used as a target ship by the Soviet Union into the early 1960s as the Tsel. The hull of the

guns and two torpedo launchers. She was decommissioned and used as a target ship. French destroyer Le Terrible, a destroyer of the Le Fantasque class

to be transferred to the U-boat School, where she would be used as a target ship for U-boat crews. This duty was interrupted by the outbreak of World

three times (in episodes 19, 57 and 172) and were never able to make the target ship catch fire, declaring the myth busted three separate times. In 1935,

Point, making up to 10 knots of speed, and successfully sank an old target ship with a single torpedo. After more tests and trial at Izmit naval base

1906 20 September 1906 6 March 1907 Reclassified as a radio-controlled target ship, January 1929 Matsukaze 松風 Mitsubishi Shipyards, Nagasaki 25 September

Corvette #INSPrabal, homes on with deadly accuracy at max range, sinking target ship: Indian Navy". 23 October 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2024. Rohwer & Hummelchen

the World 1990/91. Annapolis, Maryland, USA, 1990. ISBN 0-87021-250-8. Video: KNM Sleipner sunk as a target ship by a Hauk class patrol boat on YouTube

the loss of Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate and sunk as a target ship by the Russian navy in 1947. Convoy premiered at the New Gallery Cinema

Panuco (IA-1). Following her services with SEMAR, she was used as a target ship and was sunk in 2010, becoming an artificial reef. The Park County can

Chesma being used as a target ship in 1912

tests that year. Surviving both, she was towed back to Pearl Harbor as a target ship and sunk following a massive assault by ships and planes in 1948. USS New

William M. Wood as a target ship off Puerto Rico, in 1983.

Painting of Baden sinking as a target ship, 16 August 1921

8 May 1984 21 December 1984 Pacific Decommissioned in 2012 (sunk as target ship in 2013) MPK-191 Khabarovsk 30 November 1982 7 May 1985 21 November 1985