Pacific ships

IJN · BB

Sunk

Battleship. On the page because destroyers hit her and she hit back. Sterett claimed two torpedo hits in November 1942. Four months earlier she was in the force that sank Edsall.

Disabled in the night action of 12-13 November 1942 and sunk on 13 November. Also in the force that overwhelmed Edsall on 1 March 1942.

Public-domain photograph via Wikimedia Commons.

Command

The loss of Edsall

1942-03-01 · fired on her

Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, night action

1942-11-13 · torpedoed in the night action, sunk the next day

Shot and shell

fired · gunUSS Edsall
Part of the surface force that fired more than 1,300 shells. Only one or two hits are credited before the air strike.
Taken · hitfrom USS Sterett
Sterett claimed two torpedo hits on Hiei. Hiei was finished off the next day by aircraft and other ships, not by Sterett alone.