USS El Paso

The USS El Paso was the coalitions long awaited heavy battleship, intended to block supplies in the midst of the Foreign Wars.

El Paso's Hull Was Launched on Dec 16 2021, and the entire ship was completed by Jan 14th.

## Occupations

### Wars

Foreign War (2021-present) Natsome-Coalition Wars (Mid 2022 - Jan 2023)

El Paso's Maiden voyage would go from Jan 17th to Jan 20th, as it would block foreign fishing lines supposed to be aided by Rolandskavadet.

El Paso would be deployed to the frontlines of the Foreign war on Jan 30th 2022. on its first voyage against small 1 turreted patrol ships, El Paso would take its first bit of damage, striking its Bell Tower.

Thankfully, the Bell Tower didnt collapse, and held up till it docked on Feb 1st for repairments.

***Battle Of The Reef***

The Battle Of The Reef was the most naval resistance the coalition recieved in the foreign war. leading a fleet of smaller patrol ships was the El Paso.

On Feb 24th, The El Paso And its fleet would be suddenly ambushed by what seemed to be pirates on speed boats.

El Paso took a heavy hit after a rocket launcher/mortar struck its upper turret, putting its upper turret out of service.

1 Patrol ship in the fleet was sunk, 2 were Heavily damaged, and for a breif 30 minutes, The El Paso was on fire in its lower boiler room complex.

***The Battle Of Sway Island***

Sway Island at the time was one of the best points of trade, and wartime supply. as it had easy access to the neighboring canals and was rich

with many ports. The Coalition would seek Sway Island, so on March 2nd in response to the foreigns attempting to show trust to the locals, the El Paso and a fleet of 3 other converted Warships would depart for Sway Island.

off the coast of Sway Island, A battle Between El Paso's fleet, and another fleet led by a smaller battleship named ''Kyugshig'' would insue.

the battle would last for 4 hours through the night, and the coalition fleet would take many hits, and sink many ships.

El Paso took 2 heavy hits from Kyugshig to its stern bridge, and its lower turret.

Kyugshig would retreat after coming alight after being ambushed by 2 smaller Warships

El Paso's Fleet would sink 3 out of 5 that were in the opposing fleet, and would suffer the losses of 2 smaller warships, and a damaged El Paso.

***Dry Docking and Repairment***

on March 14th, The El Paso would be Temporarily taken out of the foreign war to be dry docked for boiler and battle repairments.

Due To Coalition-Roland conflicts, it would stay drydocked till July 16th, only to be dry docked again after being pushed aground by currents. it would stay till August 4th.

***Natsome***

by the time El Paso returned to service, the CN didnt need it in the Foreign war, and instead moved it to the ever so heating, Natsome-Coalition Wars.

El Paso would spend its time blocking shipments in an unidentified canal until August 29th, When it would be pulled out of the war, to defend against Natsome Subs.

***Port Patrol***

The El Paso would now be deployed to patrol major shipping ports till Feb 10th 2023.

In its patrols, it would sink 392 Enemy Vessels attempted to cross the area. it would remain on patrol until the fateful day of Jan 6th 2023.

***The Sinking Of The USS El Paso***

(text here taken from coalition discord announcement)

in mid day of 1/6/2023, the coalitions prime battleship, El Paso, would leave port on a over night patrol. on board were 190 sailors total.

whilst sailing, 6 hours into their patrol, the El Paso would strike a large, jagged, pole of metal left from a temporary marina. as it would rip into the ships side, captain Alexander Poi would set the ship into full nuetral.

a few minutes later, the el paso's front bow was starting to flood. Captain Alexander ordered all sailor to the stern end of the ship, as it seemed it was being pulled down bow side. as other sailors prepared the only inflatable rafts that werent under water, the entire bow went under. and later, said by the survivors, the ships mid section ''blew up and snapped in half''.

after that, they said the they watched other sailors and alexander carrying 2 other rafts get dragged down into the waves. after that the remaining sailors stayed on the barely floating stern until in sunk 30 minutes later.

shortly before the communications were submerged, the El Paso sent a message in SG code to the nearest ship, The SS Wyandotte. their conversation read as follows.

USS ''SOS SOS-ACCISTANCE NEEDED-''

SS ''USS ATTEMPT TO RECALL?''

USS ''SOS SOS DOUBLE - EL PASO GOING DOWN - NEED HELP - URGENT''

SS ''10 MILE SOUTH - ONWARD TO LOCATION''

SS '' USS ARE YOU RECALLING''

SS '' USS''

about an hour later, the speeding Wyandotte would arrive at the sinking location to 65 survivors. The Wyandotte could barely fit the extra cargo, but the survivors eventually returned to land.

***USS Texarkana***

Shortly before the El Paso sunk, a sister ship was already underway, and had its hull launched only days before.

The Texarkana would Be Launched on Jan 12th and still operates regularly today.

not to long ago, the Texarkana became the first vessel in the world to have assistance from a marine mammal

the marine animal, named Nultek.