USS Kidd (DD-661), A Fletcher-class Destroyer, Was The First Ship Of The United States Navy To Be Named
USS Kidd (DD-661), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named after Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who died on the bridge of his flagship USS Arizona during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Admiral Kidd was the first US flag officer to die during World War II, and the first American admiral ever to be killed in action. A National Historic Landmark, she is now a museum ship, berthed on the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2019/08/usmc-to-first-fly-f-35b-from-japans-izumo-class-aircraft-carriers
Helicopter carrier JS Kaga during arrival at the port of Shiga to participate in the open day on Board the ship. 14 July 2019.
Engagement between HMS Mediator and three French and two American Ships, by Montague Dawson (c) Christie's
HMS Mediator was a 44-gun fifth rate of the Royal Navy. On 11 December 1782 she was commanded by Captain James Luttrell and waiting off Ferrol to intercept an American frigate. Luttrell found a squadron of three French and two American vessels, all heavily armed and with an aggregate of over six hundred men heading for Port au Prince. These formed a line of battle and presented a formidable appearance as the Mediator faced them.
Undaunted, Luttrell bore down on them and in a close action cut off one of the largest American privateers, the Alexander, compelling her to surrender. She subsequently captured the French Eugène and Ménagère.
The following day a desperate but unsuccessful attempt was made by the prisoner to set fire to the Mediator. The captured stores from the ships were brought safely to England.
“She wore mirrored glasses. Her clothes were black, the heels of her black boots deep in the temper foam. […] The glasses were surgically inset, sealing her sockets. The silver lenses seemed to grow from smooth pale skin above cheekbones, framed by dark hair cut in a rough shag. The fingers curled around the fletcher were slender, white tipped with polished burgundy. The nails looked artificial.”
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