USS Kalk (DD-170)
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The first USS Kalk was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Hamilton and then into the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Hamilton
USS Kalk (DD-170)
Neutrality Patrol
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On September 3, 1939, the British and French declarations of war on Germany initiated the Battle of the Atlantic. The United States Navy Chief of Naval Operations established a combined air and ship p
USS Kalk (DD-170)
…entire world, Kalk was recommissioned on 17 June 1940. The ship departed Philadelphia on 26 July, arriving at Charleston on 31 July for duty with the Neutrality Patrol in the Atlantic. Kalk was one of 50 overage destroyers turned over to Britain in exchange for strategic bases in the Atlantic under terms of the…
U.S. Navy Vought SBU-1 dive bombers of scouting squadron VS-42 flying the Neutrality Patrol in 1940