Battle of Point Judith

Battle of Point Judith
Part of World War II and Battle of the Atlantic

Sailors aboard USS Moberly firing on U-853.
DateMay 5–6, 1945
Location41°21′00″N 71°28′01″W / 41.350°N 71.467°W / 41.350; -71.467
Result United States victory
Belligerents
 United States  Germany
Strength
Sea
• Destroyer Ericsson
• 2 Destroyer escorts
USS Amick
USS Atherton
• Frigate Moberly
• SS Black Point
Air
2 blimps
Submarine U-853
Casualties and losses
12 killed
Black Point sunk
55 killed
U-853 sunk

The Battle of Point Judith is the popular name for a naval engagement fought between the United States and Nazi Germany during World War II on May 5 and 6, 1945 - with Germany on the verge of total defeat and surrender, and Hitler having already died by suicide. American surface combatants and two blimps sank a German U-boat off Point Judith, Rhode Island in one of the last actions of the Battle of the Atlantic. The SS Black Point a 368-foot, 7,500-ton coal ship, was sunk at the start of the Battle.[1]