USS Alfred A. Cunningham (DD-752), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Alfred Austell Cunningham...
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Alfred Austell Cunningham (March 8, 1882 – May 27, 1939) was an American aviator and a United States Marine Corps officer who became the first Marine Corps...
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Blockade of Wonsan (section USS Walke incident)
bombardment on July 17, 1951. For four and a half hours the destroyers USS O'Brien, USS Blue and USS Alfred A. Cunningham engaged the batteries at Wonsan, firing...
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character. The destroyer USS Alfred A. Cunningham was the naval ship featured in this film. Another ship used in filming was the cruiser USS Galveston, which...
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only USS Laffey (DD-724) located at Patriots Point, Charleston, South Carolina remains as a museum ship. The Argentine Navy acquired four Sumners as a more...
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MS Explorer or MV Explorer was a Liberian-registered cruise ship, the first vessel of that kind used specifically to sail the icy waters of the Antarctic...
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national). Only 27 bodies were recovered. A further fatality occurred during the salvage operation with the loss of a Dutch diver. Bantry Bay During the 1960s...
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carriers. USS Suwannee is an example of a T3 tanker, hull AO-33, that was rebuilt to be an escort carrier. The T3 tanker's size and speed made it a useful...
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the U-boat that it is hunting. USS Alfred A. Cunningham (DD-752) has a cameo in the final burial scene. On 17 April 2005 a memorial to the Captain class...
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Wildrake diving accident (redirect from Richard A. Walker)
Scotland in August 1979 that killed two American commercial divers. During a routine dive in the East Shetland Basin of the North Sea, the diving bell...
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