USS Perch (SS-176)
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USS Perch, a Porpoise-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the perch. Perch spent the first months of WW2 protecting the Philippines and Dutch East Indies from
Perch off Groton Connecticut in the fall of 1936
Perch shortly after commissioning, 19 November 1936
Perch underway in the fall of 1936
Perch off Portsmouth New Hampshire, 16 June 1937
HMS Exeter (68)
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HMS Exeter was the second and last York-class heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s, and the last heavy cruiser the Royal Navy would ever build. Aside from a temporary deploymen
USS Perch (SS-176)
…wreck of Perch was unexpectedly located by an international team of divers aboard MV Empress while searching for the wreck of the British heavy cruiser HMS Exeter northwest of Bawean Island in the Java Sea. The expedition had hoped to locate and photograph the wreck of Exeter, sunk in the same area on 1 March…
Exeter after 1941 refit
Aerial view of Exeter at anchor with awnings rigged, Balboa, Panama, 24 April 1934
Exeter at anchor, early 1941
Exeter at the Royal Naval Dockyard Bermuda, circa 1936