Destroyer of the Bristol class
| Navy | The US Navy |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Class | Bristol |
| Pennant | DD 463 |
| Built by | Charleston Navy Yard (Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | 12 Jun, 1940 |
| Laid down | 4 Sep, 1940 |
| Launched | 28 Jul, 1941 |
| Commissioned | 18 Dec, 1941 |
| Lost | 6 Jun, 1944 |
| Loss position | 49.31N, 01.11W (See a map) |
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| History | Sunk by a mine off Utah Beach at Normandy, France in position 49º31'N, 01º11'W.
24 of her crew were lost with the ship.
For more info on this ship see this website (offsite link). |
| Noteable events involving Corry (i) include: 4 Jul, 1942
USS Corry picks up 4 survivors from the American merchant Ruth that was torpedoed and sunk on 29 June 1942 by the German submarine U-153 about 100 nautical miles north of Cape Maysi, Cuba in position 21º44'N, 74º05'W. 17 Mar, 1944
The German submarine U-801 was sunk in the mid-Atlantic near the Cape Verde Islands, in position 16º42'N, 30º28'W, by a Fido homing torpedo from 2 Avenger aircraft (VC-9) of the US escort carrier USS Block Island and depth charges and gunfire from the US destroyer USS Corry and the US destroyer escort USS Bronstein. (see map) |
