The overturned hull of the Italian battleship
Guilio Cesare, taken by Russia as a war prize
and renamed Novorossiisk. The ship was sunk
on October 29, 1955, by an old German mine
that had laid undetected on the floor of
Sevastopol harbor sense WWII. Over 500 men
were killed. The ship was raised in May 1957,
then beached and cut up for scrap. Note the
caved in hull, which stretched some 73 feet.
The aft extreme of the damage is under the
forward part of "A" turret barbette.
This photo was taken soon after the ship
was refloated.
This photo shows the damage to the USS Cole following the October 12, 2000, terrorist attack in Aden, Yemen. Seventeen sailors were killed, and repairs to the ship took 14 months. The photo was taken nearly three weeks after the attack, after the vessel was aboard the Norwegian heavy transport ship M/V Blue Marlin for the trip home.
A hole in the main deck of the destroyer USS Goldborough, showing damage inflicted by North Vietnamese shore guns in 1972.
