From stem to stern, the entire game is designed around it.
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It comes in titanium or red gold and is pretty much handmade from stem to stern.
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You'd also want your own if you want complete control of your email from stem to stern.
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"When we looked out, the other boat was totally engulfed in flames, from stem to stern," Hansen said.
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Those people did not have a chance to get out: From stem to stern, that boat was burning.
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"When we looked out, the other boat was totally engulfed in flames, from stem to stern," he said.
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From stem to stern, the Massachusetts senator has marketed herself as the candidate with all the issues thought out.
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"We have checked Juno from stem to stern and back again," said Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno, in a statement.
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"When we looked out, the [Conception] was totally engulfed in flames, from stem to stern," Hansen told the New York Times.
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"When we looked out, the other boat was totally engulfed in flames, from stem to stern," Hansen told the New York Times.
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The paper model ensures that although you can ignore entire sections (at your peril), you will at least skim the principal news part from stem to stern, reading the headlines.
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Worst of all is an extended sequence where Ms. Hahn's character gives a Brazilian wax to a prodigiously endowed male client, who verbally guides us from stem to stern with disgusting specificity.
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" An article in The New York Times on May 27, 1917, reported, "Measuring 200 feet from stem to stern and forty feet beam, the Recruit has been built to offer much-needed quarters for both the navy and marine recruiting forces.
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Teddy Ruxpin, or, as his followers in the Cities of Refuge called him, Ted, is a robotic toy that reads to children and then flays your mind from stem to stern, stealing all hope and blasting your personality to ribbons cast upon a sand-choked hellscape.
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Tossing in his rubber boat in the waters off Midway, our wounded Ensign Gay watched the two great Japanese carriers blasted into flame from stem to stern as their planes circled helplessly above them, unable to land on the blazing furnaces which had been their nests.
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Survivors of three British ships sunk by Nazi raiders in December, the Filipinos told of having come into contact with three German raiders, including the 10,000-ton Narvik, which they said was known as the ''Black Ship,'' painted black from stem to stern and bearing no insignia to show its nationality.
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On 11 July she destroyed the sailing vessel Japanese guard boat Takatori Maru No.8 (51 tons) with gunfire, leaving it aflame from stem to stern.
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" Jack: "You mean we've been--" Voice: "--Yes. Malled from stem to stern." Carmen: "I don't want him." Frieda: "Well that's good because he has someone else, she has him now.
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He had first read Miller after finding a copy of Tropic of Cancer that had been left behind in a public lavatory. He said the book shook him "from stem to stern".
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Slamat was afire from stem to stern, and Diamond fired a torpedo at her port side that sank her in a coup de grâce. By now Diamond carried about 600 of Slamats survivors, including Captain Luidinga.
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Sirius was long from stem to stern and a depth of hold of . She had a beam of and a draught of . The ship had a capacity of 412 tons burthen and a gross tonnage of 703gt.Sheppard, pp.
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Motor Cycle, 3 September 1964. p.486 Lightweights stir it up during Manx Grand Prix practising. "New from stem to stern, the model is in the care of Geoff Duke who is helping Royal Enfields with the racing design".
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The table planks consist entirely of parallel ribs that begin and end at the rail. The bottom (longest) plank runs from stem to stern and the top two (shortest) are located amidships at the railing on the port and starboard sides of the boat.
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Their song "Dwelling", from Shiver, was included in the soundtrack to the 1996 film Foxfire."From stem to Stern, it's a who's-who of hard rock". The Province, March 13, 1997. Thirsk went on to release her debut album as a solo artist, Souvenir, in 2004.
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The class has an unsuccessful design, underpowered being not able to achieve design speed of . Hull is of semi-planing type marine grade mild steel with a round mid body and a flat afterplane. Superstructure is marine aluminum alloy. Main deck watertight from stem to stern and to shell.
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On Wednesday the ship was cleaned for the public. On Wednesday evening Commander van Rees and Mr Brieder M.D. dined at Captain Hart's. On Thursday 30 April Djambi many ladies and gentlemen visited Djambi, which was open from stem to stern. In the evening all officers were on shore.
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With care and lights, it was possible to travel from stem to stern without leaving the ship. The interior of the ship has also seen use as a training course for assault swimmers. Her exposed decks were regularly used for picnics. During the 1970s, the Cerberus Preservation Trust was formed to study the feasibility of raising and restoring Cerberus.
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Dorsetshire fired a pair of torpedoes into Bismarcks starboard side, one of which hit. Dorsetshire then moved around to her port side and fired another torpedo, which also hit. By the time these torpedo attacks took place, the ship was already listing so badly that the deck was partly awash. Bismarck had been reduced to a shambles, aflame from stem to stern.
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The shape of the stem was based on segments of circles of varying sizes. The keel was an inverted T shape to accept the garboard planks. In the longships the keel was made up of several sections spliced together and fastened with treenails. The next step was building the strakes—the lines of planks joined endwise from stem to stern.
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Following this, together with Armstrong, he designed the world's first protected cruiser, the prototype being the Esmeralda. The design had an arched steel protective deck running from stem to stern just below the waterline. All of the vital parts of the ship were placed below the protective deck. The ship also had cork-filled cellular compartments to aid with buoyancy.
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This occurred around 2.5 miles south east of the Shambles light. The mine, which was one of the first types used in combat, caused the ship to become ablaze before sinking slowly. At the time of sinking SS Binnendijk was alight from stem to stern. The ship sank about 1 mile north of the Lightvessel at 2am the next day.
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Simultaneously, Yorktowns VB-3, commanded by Max Leslie, went for Sōryū, scoring at least three hits and causing extensive damage. Gasoline ignited, creating an "inferno", while stacked bombs and ammunition detonated. VT-3 targeted Hiryū, which was hemmed in by Sōryū, Kaga, and Akagi, but achieved no hits. Within six minutes, Sōryū and Kaga were ablaze from stem to stern, as fires spread through the ships.
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They found two lifeboats from Slamat and rescued their occupants. Slamat was afire from stem to stern, and Diamond fired a torpedo at her port side that sank her in a coup de grâce. By now Diamond carried about 600 of Slamats survivors, including Captain Luidinga. About 1315 hrs a Staffel of Ju 87 bombers came out of the sun in a surprise attack on the two destroyers.
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As his ship led > the advance column toward the barrier and both forts opened fire > simultaneously, striking the vessel from stem to stern, Young calmly manned > a Parrot gun throughout the action in which attempts by three rebel steamers > to butt and board were thwarted and the ships driven off or captured, 11 > gunboats were successfully engaged and garrisons forced to surrender. During > the battle, the Cayuga sustained 46 hits.
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At 08:15 Diamond reported that she was still rescuing survivors and still under air attack. By then three destroyers had reinforced the convoy so Calcutta sent Wryneck to assist Diamond. Slamat was afire from stem to stern when Diamond fired a torpedo that sank her in a coup de grâce. Diamond reported at 09:25 that she had rescued most of the survivors and was proceeding to Souda Bay.
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At 08:15 Diamond reported that she was still rescuing survivors and still under air attack. By then three destroyers had reinforced the convoy so Calcutta sent one of them, , to assist Diamond. Slamat was afire from stem to stern when Diamond fired a torpedo that sank her in a coup de grâce. Diamond reported at 09:25 that she had rescued most of the survivors and was proceeding to Souda Bay.
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Latouche recognised his opponent as "at least a 64-gun ship". The superiority of Hector broadside led Latouche to want to board his opponent rather than continue to engage in an artillery duel, but Hector eluded him. At one point, Aigle and Hector were so close to one another than their gunners started hitting each other though the gunports using their ramrods. Meanwhile, Gloire circled Hector and raked her from stem to stern.
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Close-range defense against torpedo boats was provided by a tertiary battery of four quick-firing (QF) 6-pounder () 40-caliber guns and two QF 1-pounder () guns. She was also equipped with three torpedo tubes, one on each broadside above water and one submerged tube in the bow. She was fitted with an armored deck that ran from stem to stern. It was in thickness over the boilers and engines and reduced in thickness to fore and aft.
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Now the "Little Beavers" opened fire on the fleeing enemy, while maneuvering to avoid return fire. As the three targets took divergent courses, Charles Ausburne continued her pursuit of , hitting her repeatedly. Soon blazing from stem to stern, the Japanese ship made a last desperate attempt to open the range but was quickly overhauled and sunk. Approaching daylight now made it imperative that the squadron withdraw to put distance between themselves and the Japanese airbase at Rabaul.
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The film received largely negative reviews from critics. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 4%, based on 23 reviews, with an average rating of 3.36/10. The consensus reads, "Misguided from stem to stern, Mary wastes the talents of an outstanding cast -- and makes a soggy mess of its supernatural horror story." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 31 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".
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The two battleships quickly reduced their German opponent to a shambles, aflame from stem to stern, though the Germans refused to surrender. The ship was settling by the stern due to uncontrolled flooding and had taken on a 20 degree list to port by 10:00. By that time, the two British battleships had fired some 700 large-caliber shells at Bismarck,Bercuson & Herwig, pp. 291–294 all told, the two battleships, Dorsetshire, and Norfolk fired some 2,800 shells, scoring around 400 hits.
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Citation: > On board the U.S.S. Brooklyn during action against rebel forts and gunboats > and with the ram Tennessee, in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Despite severe > damage to his ship and the loss of several men on board as enemy fire raked > her decks from stem to stern, Cooper fought his gun with skill and courage > throughout the furious battle which resulted in the surrender of the prize > rebel ram Tennessee and in the damaging and destruction of batteries at Fort > Morgan.
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Hathaway "displayed exceptional courage" after being severely wounded. For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor five years later on October 3, 1867. Hathaway's official Medal of Honor citation reads: > On board the U.S.S. Sciota prior to the battle Vicksburg, on 28 June 1862. > Struck by a bullet which severed his left arm above the elbow, Hathaway > displayed exceptional courage as his ship sustained numerous damaging hits > from stem to stern while proceeding down the river to fight the battle of > Vicksburg.
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All lengths quoted in this article are measured in Amsterdam feet, taken as the length of the uppermost continuous deck from stem to stern. The Amsterdam foot (Amsterdamse voet) was equivalent to 28.3133 cm, and thus equated to 0.9289 of an English foot, a factor to bear in mind in any comparisons. It was divided into eleven inches (Amsterdamse duim) equal to 2.57393 cm, compared with 2.54 cm for an English inch. Thus 150 Amsterdam feet equated to 139ft 4 inches in English measurement.
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The car houses three seats and a rotating spherical pod, which allows the driver to quickly rotate to their desired position outside. It measures 4.965m from stem to stern, and is just over two metres tall and two metres wide. The purpose of the extra room is to house a mini-laboratory for use in the field. It has enough refrigerated storage space to support the car's three operators for up to a week out in the field, and tents and sleeping bags may be stored in the door's storage compartments.
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The only incident that garnered published notice was when the governor ordered the cutter to transport a company of soldiers (artillerymen from Fort Johnson) down the waterway to protect a stranded British merchant vessel, the Aracabessa, from another vessel that may have been a French privateer. By the time the cutter got underway and arrived at the scene, Aracabessa was burning from stem to stern. The privateer was nowhere to be seen and later captured two American vessels further out to sea. The South Carolina State Gazette noted: > On Tuesday, the 17th inst.
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In the early afternoon of 11 January, both she and fellow cruiser came under attack from 12 Stuka dive bombers of II Gruppe, Sturzkampfgeschwader 2, Luftwaffe. She was hit by at least two bombs south- east of Malta and caught fire; the resulting blaze spread from stem to stern and trapped a number of men below decks. 81 men were killed with the survivors being picked up by Gloucester and the destroyer . Heavily damaged and without power, Southampton was sunk by one torpedo from Gloucester and four from the cruiser .
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Ulvert M. Moore went to general quarters twice in the predawn hours of 4 January, fueled from , and spent the afternoon delivering mail via highline transfer to other ships in the task force. While she was casting off from alongside , her lookouts noted a Japanese plane slipping into the return flight pattern of the carriers. This kamikaze soon crashed into shortly after 1714, away from Ulvert M. Moores starboard bow. A heavy explosion rocked the "jeep carrier" from stem to stern, and large fires soon broke out along her starboard side.
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The freighter tried to ram her, but Wahoo maneuvered clear, and then continued firing at the target, setting her ablaze from stem to stern, and leaving her dead in the water. The crew took turns looking through the periscope as the freighter sank. Later that day, Wahoo sighted a trawler and again attacked with her deck guns. When all three of her 20 mm guns jammed, the Wahoo went alongside the riddled trawler and the sailors of Wahoo hurled homemade Molotov cocktails (gifts from the U.S. Marines at Midway Atoll) onto the trawler.
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He died three hours later. The captain, Gibbs, was unable to locate the Kinsale lights, and by this time the weather had deteriorated to a gale. At 6 am on 30 January the ship attempted to reach the sanctuary of Waterford harbour, but at 10:30 am the foretop was brought down, severely injuring a seaman. The crew prevented the ship from being driven onto the north arm of Tramore Bay by releasing its three anchors, but the sea was breaking over her from stem to stern, and by noon the anchors were dragging.
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Although the escorting vessels dropped 81 depth charges, none fell close, and Tunny withdrew to the southeast, having scored her sixth kill of the war, a 4900-ton cargo ship, the Nichiwa Maru. Shortly after midnight, Tunny surfaced and saw an ill-fated cargo ship, the victim of Sand Lance, ablaze from stem to stern. Frequent minor explosions punctuated the night as the ship went down in the darkness. As Tunny continued patrols in the Mariana Islands, she sighted numerous aircraft and noted explosions and burning ships—apparently the work of sister ship .
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The wreckage of the Chinese flagship Yangwu The Chinese lost nine of the eleven ships of the Fujian Fleet. Some of the Chinese ships foundered where they were struck, sinking off the Pagoda anchorage and the Foochow Navy Yard. Others drifted downriver and either ran aground or sank between Losing Island and the Min'an pass. French officers aboard Châteaurenault, anchored near the entrance to the Min River, saw three Chinese warships drifting downriver on the evening of 23 August, abandoned by their crews and blazing from stem to stern.
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The 3-inch (76 mm) gun at the bows was twisted in its mountings and put out of action. A formation of five Junkers 88s was broken up by the tanker's anti aircraft guns, with the bombs falling harmlessly into the sea. Another plane, this time a Junkers 87, was shot down by an Ohio gunner; however, the aircraft crashed into Ohios starboard side, forward of the upper bridge, and exploded. Half a wing hit the upper work of the bridge and a rain of debris showered the tanker from stem to stern.
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Just a few minutes after morning quarters on 29 September, a loud explosion shook the ship from stem to stern and was immediately followed by another. Battle stations were manned before it was learned that the ship had struck a floating mine. The fantail was a mass of twisted steel; but, due to the quick action of repair parties, all watertight hatches in the vicinity were dogged down to keep the ship afloat and a port list was created artificially to aid in maintaining watertight integrity. There were three deaths in the explosion and many injuries.
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Lizards first commission was in the Mediterranean, and later on the south-east coast of South America. She took part in an Anglo-French action in Uruguay in 1845, during which she was "riddled from stem to stern" passing the San Lorenzo shore battery, and suffered 4 men killed and 4 wounded. On 1 August 1848, she assisted in the refloating on the British merchant ship Sappho, which had run aground in the River Plate on 23 July. By 1858 she, like her sister ship, was engaged in fishery protection duties off Scotland, as a tender to .
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The first occurred on 10 March 1926, as the ship lay moored in the yard of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia awaiting final trials after being reconditioned. A fire broke out on board only a day before she was to be returned to her owner. The fire burned for seven hours and eventually consumed most of the passenger cabins as it swept the ship nearly from stem to stern, causing an estimated $2,000,000 worth of damage. The second newsworthy incident began on 22 January 1929 when America—then commanded by Captain George Fried—was steaming from France to New York.
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As at 22 November 2005, the wreck lies in an east-west orientation in the bed of a bend in the Darling River and up against the southern bank. Although the Rodney was substantially destroyed by fire in 1894 and has been subject to many years of periodic inundation and exposure, the lower structure of the vessel, from stem to stern, has survived relatively intact. As an archaeological site there are sufficient remains to develop a model of the hull structure of what was one of the largest paddle steamers to operate on the river. The exposed ends of the iron framing are heavily corroded with the extremities of these frames being extremely fragile.
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S.P. Yeomans, editor of the Sioux City Register, circa May 30, 1863, wrote of the aftermath when the defeated Dakota were shipped to their new homes. > The formerly favorite steamer, Florence," he wrote, "arrived at our levee on > Tuesday; but instead of the cheerful faces of Capt. Throckmorten and Clerk > Gorman we saw those of strangers; and instead of her usual lading of > merchandise for our merchants, she was crowded from stem to stern, and from > hold to hurricane deck with old squaws and papooses — about 1,400 in all — > the non combative remnants of the Santee Sioux of Minnesota, en route to > their new home…. The Dakota have kept alive their own accounts of events suffered by their people.
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A clinker-built Viking longship, whose overlapping planks constitute "strakes". Garboard strakes and related near-keel members Diagram of typical modern metal-hulled ship’s exterior plating, with a single strake highlighted in red On a vessel's hull, a strake is a longitudinal course of planking or plating which runs from the boat's stempost (at the bows) to the sternpost or transom (at the rear). The word derivesOxford English Dictionary -"Strake" (from Old English "", stretch), nautical: each of the several continuous lines of planking or plates, of uniform breadth, in the side of a vessel, extending from stem to stern. Hence, the breadth of a plank used as a unit of vertical measurement of a ship's side,(late Middle English).
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In some ways the armour protection given to the Indefatigables was weaker than that of their predecessors as the armour was reduced in thickness in a number of places, but it was spread out to a greater extent. The main belt ran from stem to stern; it was thick for the middle of the ship, but was reduced to abreast the end 12-inch gun barbettes and magazines and thinned still further to at the ends of the ship. A bulkhead met the barbette of X turret while the forward bulkhead was in thickness. The gun turrets and barbettes were protected by of armour, except for the turret roofs which used of Krupp non-cemented armour (KNC).
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A model reconstruction of the ship, many details guessed The Ship The ship was excavated between 1935 and 1937 under Rosenberg's direction. Because the ship is very old, almost all of the ship's wood had disintegrated before its initial discovery. However, the construction and shape of the ship is suggested by the arrangement of about 2,000 rivets that held the ship together that were excavated from the sand. During the excavation of the ship, Rosenberg marked a measuring-line along the central axis of the ship from stem to stern and concluded that the ship was 21.5 meters long. He calculated its greatest breadth to be approximately 2.75 meters and its depth at amidships to be 0.65 meters.
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Originally built for the Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI) as SS Guglielmo Marconi, its state-ordered merger with the Lloyd Sabaudo line meant that the ship sailed for the newly created Italia Flotta Riunite (Italian Line).Rex operated transatlantic crossings to America from Italy with its running mate, Conte di Savoia prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Rex maintained a commercial service in the Mediterranean Sea for a short period, but when Italy entered the war in June 1940 Rex was laid up for safe-keeping. On 8 September 1944, off Koper, Rex was hit by 123 rockets launched by Royal Air Force aircraft, caught fire from stem to stern.
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Phelps found his first day at sea exhilarating; however, as the sea became rougher, the young Phelps had to deal with sea sickness by stomping on the deck while marching from stem to stern. As a midshipman, his visit to Boston marked the end of his probationary period, at which time his captain would decide if Phelps was fit to continue service, and Phelps was approved. When he learned that the USS Columbus needed midshipmen for its service in the Mediterranean, he wanted to transfer. To get past the six months' required service as midshipman for that position, he wrote to Ohio representative Elisha Whittlesey in Washington D.C. for a transfer. Upon Whittlesey's recommendation, at age seventeen, Seth's appointment to midshipman was made on October 24, 1841.
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There she encountered the Russian steamer Progress, chartered by American mining engineer Washington Vanderlip and his Russian backers. Vanderlip hired the Corwin to clear a channel through the ice so Progress could reach Cape Chaplino and the clear water just off the Siberian coast. Vanderlip described the Corwin's action as an icebreaker: "Some of the ice the Corwin can push to one side or the other but when this is not possible she backs up in order to get good headway and charges the obstruction and strikes it fairly between the eyes. She comes to a dead stop and quivers from stem to stern with the tremendous impact A rending grinding noise is heard and the berg which challenged us is a berg no longer..." Vanderlip p.
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The smoking ship was Akagane Maru, a 3100-ton cargo ship bound for Attu with troops, munitions, and supplies, but she was not to close her port of call. She answered Indianapolis challenge in Japanese Morse code; the American warships opened fire at 2316 and scored repeatedly. Within 3 minutes, the cargo ship was burning forward; a salvo by Indianapolis set her afire from stem to stern. Malfunctioning torpedoes failed to sink the gutted maru, but she finally slid under at 0126 20 February in 53-05 N, 171-22 E. After further patrolling, Gillespie returned to San Francisco 4 March for overhaul and subsequently sailed via San Diego, California and the Panama Canal to moor at New York 11 April 1943.
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For his part in the battle, he was awarded the Medal of Honor a year later on April 3, 1863. Wright's official Medal of Honor citation reads: > On board the U.S.S. Cayuga during the capture of Forts St. Philip and > Jackson and the taking of New Orleans, 24 and 25 April 1862. As his ship led > the advance column toward the barrier and both forts opened fire > simultaneously, striking the vessel from stem to stern Wright > conscientiously performed his duties throughout the action in which attempts > by 3 rebel steamers to butt and board were repelled, and the ships driven > off or forced to surrender. Eleven gunboats were successfully engaged and > the enemy garrisons captured during this battle in which the Cayuga > sustained 46 hits.
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At about 10:30 pm, Captain Murray was on the bridge with his Chief officer, a carpenter and two seamen discussing about the mystery ship, when a deafening explosion occurred on the starboard side, just forward of the bridge. The explosion shook the ship from stem to stern and blew out all the windows of the wheel-house. The Captain ordered the lifeboats to be launched immediately and assisted the chief officer in lowering the forward starboard lifeboat which already had some of the crew in it. The ship only remained upright for a very short time when she suddenly plunged bow forwards into the depths of the nightly sea, taking everything and everyone still on board down with her.
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At the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip near New Orleans on April 24, 1862, he was stationed at the ship's wheel and "conscientiously performed his duties" despite heavy fire. For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor a year later on April 3, 1863. Parker's official Medal of Honor citation reads: > At the wheel on board the U.S.S. Cayuga during the capture of Forts St. > Philip and Jackson, and New Orleans, 24 and 25 April 1862. As his ship led > the advance column toward the barrier and both forts opened fire > simultaneously, striking the vessel from stem to stern, Parker > conscientiously performed his duties throughout the action in which attempts > by 3 rebel steamers to butt and board were thwarted, and the ships driven > off.
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The DIY Mermaid broke away from the post-war tradition of building the hulls of plywood dinghies upside-down on frames fixed to the floor of a shed or garage, for the duration of the hull- construction process. The innovation consisted of building the stem to stern seating surfaces of the boat flat on the floor Do It Yourself 1963:789 in such rooms as the kitchen, the spare bedroom or the garage during the minimum amount of time needed for the glue to set, for example, overnight. This allowed people living in quite small houses to build a boat at home for the first time. The spine of the boat is an extended centreboard case running from stem to stern, which gives enormous strength to the hull structure.
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Spartan was making smoke from stem to stern but was not herself covered. About 18 aircraft approached from the north and circling over land, delivered a beam attack against the ships that were silhouetted against the afterglow. Due to the timing of the attack the aircraft were seen only by very few, and radar was ineffective owing to land echoes. By the time the warning had been received and the ships had opened fire in the general direction of the attack, six bombs were already approaching the anchorage, most of them falling into the water. But at about 18:00 a radio-controlled Henschel Hs 293 glide bomb hit Spartan just aft of the after funnel and detonated high up in the compartments abreast the port side of the after boiler room, blowing a large hole in the upper deck.
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Plagued by disease and low morale due to the series of forced marches they had undertaken on the prolonged southern campaign , Cao Cao's men could not gain an advantage in the small skirmish which ensued, so Cao Cao retreated to Wulin (north of the Yangtze River) and the allies pulled back to the south . Cao Cao had chained his ships from stem to stern, possibly aiming to reduce seasickness in his navy, which was composed mostly of northerners who were not used to living on ships. Observing this, divisional commander Huang Gai sent Cao Cao a letter feigning surrender and prepared a squadronThe number of vessels in the squadron is unclear. As de Crespigny observes, "Firstly, the Records of the Three Kingdoms states that the number of vessels in Huang Gai's squadron was 'several tens,' but the parallel passage in Zizhi Tongjian... allocates Huang Gai only ten ships" .
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The fires were severe enough that the remaining American aircraft attacked the other ships escorting Hiryū, albeit without effect, deeming further attacks on the carrier as a waste of time because she was aflame from stem to stern. Beginning at 17:42, two groups of B-17s attempted to attack the Japanese ships without success, although one bomber strafed Hiryūs flight deck, killing several anti-aircraft gunners.Parshall & Tully, pp. 318–329 airplane from the Hōshō Although Hiryūs propulsion was not affected, the fires could not be brought under control. At 21:23, her engines stopped, and at 23:58 a major explosion rocked the ship. The order to abandon ship was given at 03:15, and the survivors were taken off by the destroyers and . Yamaguchi and Kaku decided to remain on board as Hiryū was torpedoed at 05:10 by Makigumo as the ship could not be salvaged. One torpedo missed and the other struck near the bow without the typical plume of water, although the detonation was quite visible. Around 07:00, one of 's Yokosuka B4Y aircraft discovered Hiryū still afloat and not in any visible danger of sinking.
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