When it became evident that the carrier would not sink immediately and might be saved, Admiral Fletcher ordered a salvage party put on board.

The carrier sank with the loss of 307 sailors.

Haverfield rescued one of six Block Island fighter pilots who had been aloft when the carrier sank, but a long search failed to locate the remaining five men.

In the Battle of the Coral Sea his carrier sank the Japanese aircraft carrier Shōhō and was in turn mortally damaged on May 8, 1942.

Damage control efforts failed, however, and the carrier sank soon thereafter, carrying the intrepid Wiltsie, Admiral Mullinix, and 644 officers and men down with her.

Both carriers sank to the bottom of the sea.

The Vicky is the second ship to strike the wreck of the Tricolor since the carrier sank on December 14, 2002.

The carrier rolled over and sank 30 miles from Gibraltar.

Fletcher's scouts found the fourth carrier and Enterprise with Yorktown planes then sank Hiryu.

The other day I phoned my friend Blake, an old Navy man who was in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and had his carrier sunk under him.