Word: evertsen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunda Strait. "On Feb. 28 [1942] the [British cruiser] Exeter, the [U.S. destroyer] Pope and [British destroyer] Encounter headed for Sunda Strait and were never heard from again. On March 1 the [U.S. cruiser] Houston and [Australian cruiser] Perth and [Dutch destroyer] Evertsen headed in the same direction and except for very meager reports of an engagement in the Sunda Strait, they have not been heard from since...
...World War I) destroyer Pope. The British lost the heavy cruiser Exeter, which by skillful maneuver drove the Admiral Graf Spee to her ignoble end in 1939, and four destroyers (Encounter, Stronghold, Electra, Jupiter). The Dutch lost two light cruisers (Java and De Ruyter), two destroyers (Kortenaer and Evertsen). Australia's Navy lost its light cruiser Perth, the armed sloop Yarra. Probable loss of life: about 800 on the Houston, 125 on the Pope...
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