File:Location of target ships for atomic test Able in 1946.png
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English: Map showing the position of the target ships for the atomic bomb test Able on 1 July 1946. Shaded vessels sank as a result of the blast. The ships are numbered as follows: (1) USS Anderson (DD-411); (2) USS Apogon (SS-308); (3) USS Arkansas (BB-33); (4) USS Carlisle (APA-69); (5) USS Gilliam (APA-57); (6) USS Lamson (DD-367); (7) Nagato, captured Japanese battleship; (8) USS Pilotfish (SS-386); (9) Sakawa, captured Japanese cruiser; (10) USS Saratoga (CV-3); (11) ARDC-13; (12) YO-160; (13) LCT-1114; (14) USS Banner (APA-60); (15) USS Barrow (APA-61); (16) USS Bracken (APA-64); (17) USS Briscoe (APA-65); (18) USS Brule (APA-66); (19) USS Butte (APA-68); (20) USS Carteret (APA-70); (21) USS Catron (APA-71); (22) USS Crittenden (APA-77); (23) USS Dawson (APA-79); (24) USS Dentuda (SS-335); (25) USS Fallon (APA-81); (26) USS Gasconade (APA-85); (27) USS Hughes (DD-410); (28) USS Independence (CVL-22); (29) USS Mayrant (DD-402); (30) USS Mustin (DD-413); (31) USS New York (BB-34); (32) USS Nevada (BB-36); (33) USS Parche (SS-384); (34) USS Pennsylvania (BB-38); (35) USS Pensacola (CA-24); (36) USS Prinz Eugen (IX-300), captured German cruiser; (37) USS Rhind (DD-404); (38) USS Salt Lake City (CA-25); (39) USS Searaven (SS-196); (40) USS Skate (SS-305); (41) Skipjack (SS-184); (42) USS Stack (DD-406); (43) USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390); (44) USS Trippe (DD-403); (45) USS Tuna (SS-203); (46) USS Wainwright (DD-419); (47) USS Wilson (DD-408); (48) LCM-1; (49) LST-52; (50) LSM-60. The larger ships USS Conyngham (DD-371), USS Bladen (APA-63), USS Cortland (APA-75), USS Fillmore (APA-83), USS Geneva (APA-86), USS Niagara (APA-87) and a mass of smaller landing ships are not included on the map. |
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Source | Delgado, James P.: The Archeology of the Atomic Bomb, National Park Service, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1991, Chapter 2: Operation Crossroads, p. 16. |
Author | U.S. National Park Service (the illustrations was redrawn by Robbyn Jackson of the NPS Historic American Engineering Record from the U.S. Navy JTF-1) |
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