"After coming successfully through what might well be termed a major aval operation, the USS. Whipple, estrayer. arrived here on June 23 from Manila with only the latter halt of her original structure still in place fand with the bow of another ship planted on what had originally been {her own bow. 'The Whipple had been Involved in a collision with another 'American destroyer outside Manila in 'April, and as a result, American naval authorities joined parts-of the two ships together in a naval "operation' in order to salvage one ship rather than lose two.
The collision took place when the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth destroyer squadrons loft Manila with, the U.S. S, Black Hawk and the VU, S.'S. Paul Jones for the annual summer cruise to the north, in this ease to Chefoo, instead of to Tsingtao as is usual, in the night the two destroyers, the Whipple and the Smith 'Thompson' met in a terrify collision which resulted in the Whipple losing 34 feot of her bow and the Smith Thompson having her midships caved "The Smith Thompson took the worse of the collision, naturally, as the Whipple tore into' her head on, The alter half of the "Smitty" was Mooded with water and she was rendered useless for further sorvict So also might have been the Whipple, she still managed to navigate under her own power.
Us ether, experience of the British Navy during the World War which followed along the same tine.
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