Naval Disaster in Newfoundland
By Captain George Stewart, USN (Ret’d) Naval History Foundation This post provides a description of the events surrounding the loss of USS Truxtun (DD 229) and USS Pollux (AKS 2) by grounding off…
Canadian Naval News Past, Present & Future
By Captain George Stewart, USN (Ret’d) Naval History Foundation This post provides a description of the events surrounding the loss of USS Truxtun (DD 229) and USS Pollux (AKS 2) by grounding off…
At 1:20 p.m. on February 22, 1945, as a convoy including ships from the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy sailed out of Wales, the second…