this was the American war vessel called REUBEN JAMES , a destroyer, on the 31 th of october 1941 torpedoed by a Japanese sub before the war broke out between the usa and Japan in 1941 on the 7 th of December in pearl harbor(Hawaii) when war was officialy declared by the USA on the 8 th of December in the American congress by pres. roosevelt!
World War 2 started in September 1939. Therefore the first Ship lost by the US Navy was DD-245 USS Reuben James sunk on 31/10/1941 by U562 300 miles south of Iceland escorting convoy HX156 to Britain. 115 US sailors were killed.
Revenge was obtained on 19/02/1943 when the U562 was itself sunk with all hands by the Royal Navy destroyers HMS Isis and HMS Hursley.
The very first enemy warship sunk by America during World War 2 didn't have a name; it was a Japanese Mini-Sub which had been launched from a larger mother submarine during the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. IJN (Imperial Japanese Navy) midget submarines normally had a complement of 2 crewmen and fired one to two torpedoes. They were used for getting in close; like attacking within harbors.
The battleship USS Arizona, sunk at 0806 on December 7th 1941 - less than 20 minutes after the fighting began - in the battle of Pearl Harbour.
There were over 155 US warships sunk in WWII. But you're probably thinking about the battleship USS Arizona.
Battleship USS Arizona.
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