The last U.S. warship sunk by enemy fire was the USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58), which was struck by an Iranian missile during the Persian Gulf War on April 14, 1988. Although the ship was not completely destroyed, it sustained significant damage and was later decommissioned. Prior to that, the USS Cole (DDG-67) was attacked in a terrorist bombing in 2000, but it was not sunk.
Lusitania was not a warship, it was actually sunk by enemy action, and civilians were on board. It was also sunk after a warning had been given.
The first major German warship sunk in WW2 was the "pocket battleship" Admiral Graf Spee, scuttled by her crew outside Montevideo, Uruguay on 17 December 1939.
Probably the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise; the only survivor out of the three sisters, USS Yorktown (sunk at the Battle of Midway), USS Hornet (sunk at the Battle of Santa Cruz). Much to the heartbreak of most US Sailors of WW2, she was scrapped (re-cycled) in 1959.
The aircraft carrier USS Bismarck Sea was the last US aircraft carrier sunk in WWII (during the battle for Iwo Jima).
The HMAS Sydney was involved in a mutually destructive engagement with the German auxiliary cruiser Komoran on November 19, 1941.
Lusitania was not a warship, it was actually sunk by enemy action, and civilians were on board. It was also sunk after a warning had been given.
Until it sunk.
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It got sunk because the bismark sunk the flag ship of the royal navy,(Hood), the british then sent every war ship available to sink bismark. At 9.00am on the 21st of may, the bismark was sunk by the british ships.
It was a warship not a cargoship.
The CSS Alabama was basically destroyed off the coast of Cherourge, France. The serious damage was the result of the cannon fire from the USS Kearsarge .
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The first major German warship sunk in WW2 was the "pocket battleship" Admiral Graf Spee, scuttled by her crew outside Montevideo, Uruguay on 17 December 1939.
Queen Elizabeth cut in half
The golfer sunk the putt. The man's canoe tipped over and his wallet sunk to the bottom of the creek. A battleship sunk the enemy's ship.
That the explosion that sunk the Maine came from inside, not outside as it would in an attack.
Battlecruiser DKM Schornhorst (actually went down fighting). Bismarck and Graf Spee both committed suicide (sunk themselves/scuttled).