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As the title says, post any militaria you have or have seen that is related to a Famous Ship/Sub/Vessel.

 

Uniforms,Helmets,Paper Ephemera or even photos.

 

RC

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USS Vincennes (CA-44) was part of Enterprise TF-16 on the Doolittle Raid, Midway, and Guadalcanal. She was sunk at Savo Island 9 August '42.

 

This is a pillow cover commemorating her shakedown cruise:

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This is a book containing work orders for a 1939 overhaul. Many of the orders were for upgrading the guns and fire control electrical and electronics work:

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USS Vincennes (CG-49) was the first Aegis vessel in the Pacific Fleet and was a workhorse in setting the standard for all PacFleet Aegis platforms to follow. She was haze gray and underway for the majority of her first 2 years of service as the Navy learned how to measure and manage the capabilities of the platform. We fired more than 50 SM missiles and dozens of ASROCs and a few Harpoons during those first few years. Then there was the Persian Gulf in 1988 with Iran.

 

This is the masthead light from the foremast:

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This is the ship's first commissioning pennant (I obtained this from one of the skivvy wavers while we were en route to our homeport after commissioning at Pascagoula:

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Here are several jacket patches that were collected before the unfortunate sinking of the Scorpion.

 

Nice.

 

UIM tab and a variation.

 

 

 

 

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Here is my contribution. I have posted this in other threads also. This is a CDR's ballcap from the USS Stark which was hit by an exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf.

 

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Having spent over 3 years on the COLE, I have plenty of kitsch from the ship. Yes, I got used to being asked: "Were you on it during the blast?" My reply: "No, that was about seven years before I got there..." Ah well...

 

Anyway, here's a jacket that we all wore on the ship. These were FANTASTIC standing watch in CIC on on the bridge. I know they aren't "real" Navy issue, but they were what we wore "for real" on the ship. Actually, there were often comments made about how these looked along with the NWU trousers...kind of funny.

 

Dave

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Not an American ship, but certainly a famous one. One of my favorite items, acquired in Ozark, Missouri, of all places, is this autographed version of the famous photo of then Captain Daniel Gallery on the captured U-505. It is inscribed, "To Tony Eminger, With Best Regards, D.V. Gallery, Rear Admiral, USN, Turret 1, USS Idaho, 1925."

 

Jeff

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This one is familiar to many, a sad story.

 

 

 

Frank E. Evans tab.

 

 

Did the uniform belong to a crew member that was onboard during the collision? Rockers weren't worn for too long before EVANS was sunk...

 

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Did the uniform belong to a crew member that was onboard during the collision? Rockers weren't worn for too long before EVANS was sunk...

 

Dave

 

 

Unfortunately I do not know.

 

It's the only one I have seen..and I have looked pretty hard.

 

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This one is familiar to many, a sad story.

 

 

 

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Wow. Perhaps we should edit the thread title to "Infamous" as these are some serious naval events we're recognizing with our posts.

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Not a bad idea, Dave can you edit it?

 

Someone else must have more to post, there were many famous ships out there.

 

RC

 

 

Done. Hopefully that works.

 

As an aside, my father in law was the XO on the EVANS when it was hit and was one of the last survivors pulled from the water.

 

Dave

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Well, I never saw this comming down the proverbial road. My last active dury CO was a Jr officer on the Evans and was rumored to have a dislike for Jr sailors on account of their prefomance in the Evans accident. I know for a fact that he did not like me until one special evening when my actions preserved our mission on an excersise in the Caribean

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USS Midway......October 24, 1972.

 

While attempting a night landing after returning from a bombing mission over North Vietnam, Lieutenant (jg) Michael S. Bixel, Navigator/Bombardier of an A-6 Intruder was Killed when the landing gear collapsed sending the plane into a several parked aircraft that killed five crew men, and injured 23 others.

 

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Well, I never saw this comming down the proverbial road. My last active dury CO was a Jr officer on the Evans and was rumored to have a dislike for Jr sailors on account of their prefomance in the Evans accident. I know for a fact that he did not like me until one special evening when my actions preserved our mission on an excersise in the Caribean

 

 

I'm thinking anything related to the Evans must not be too common, everyone seems a little surprised.

 

Interesting story, thanks for sharing it,

 

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USS Midway......October 24, 1972.

 

While attempting a night landing after returning from a bombing mission over North Vietnam, Lieutenant (jg) Michael S. Bixel, Navigator/Bombardier of an A-6 Intruder was Killed when the landing gear collapsed sending the plane into a several parked aircraft that killed five crew men, and injured 23 others.

 

 

JS, an interesting and tragic story; if this thread has shown anything, it's that non-combat accidents can be just as dangerous.

 

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USS Stewart of the Asiatic Fleet (see the postmark). Anybody know what very unusual thing happened to this ship during WW2?

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Read this interesting history of the USS Stewart and how she ended up in the Imperial Japanese Navy!

 

"Stewart was at Tarakan Roads, Borneo, with other American and Dutch ships, when news of hostilities with Japan arrived on 8 December. During the final weeks of 1941, she escorted naval auxiliaries from the Philippines to Port Darwin, Australia. In January 1942, she escorted convoys within the Dutch East Indies, as Japanese invasion forces drew closer.

 

On 30 January, Stewart joined the cruiser, Marblehead (CL-12), and sortied with her from Bunda Roads on 4 February to intercept Japanese forces at the south entrance to the Macassar Strait. However Marblehead was badly damaged by air attacks during the day; and Stewart escorted her back to the base at Tjilatjap, Java.

 

Stewart joined Admiral Doorman's combined Dutch-American striking force at sea on 14 February for an attack on Japanese forces advancing along the northern coast of Sumatra. During the approach Stewart had to back her engines to avoid a Dutch destroyer ahead of her which had run aground on a reef in Stolze Strait, and, on the following day, 15 February, she survived numerous air attacks in the Bangka Strait. Although they damaged no Allied ships, the air attacks convinced Admiral Doorman that further advance without air cover would be foolhardy; and the Allied force retired. Stewart was detached on 16 February to fuel at Ratai Bay in Sumatra.

 

Admiral Doorman's forces were scattered when the Japanese landed on Bali on 19 February, and he threw his ships against the enemy in three groups on the night of 19 and 20 February. Stewart was lead ship in the second group; and, in several brief but furious night engagements, came under extremely accurate fire from Japanese destroyers. Her boats were shot away, her torpedo racks and galley were hit, and a crippling shot hit the destroyer aft below her water line, opening her seams and flooding the steering engine room. However, the steering engine continued to operate under two feet of water; and the destroyer was able to maintain her station in column and return to Surabaya the next morning.

 

Stewart, as the most severely damaged ship, was the first to enter the floating drydock at Surabaya on 22 February. However, she was inadequately supported in the dock, and, as the dock rose, the ship fell off the keel blocks onto her side in 12 feet of water bending her propeller shafts and causing further hull damage. With the port under enemy air attack and in danger of falling to the enemy, the ship could not be repaired. Responsibility for the destruction of the ship was given to naval authorities ashore, and Stewart's last crew members left the embattled port on the afternoon of 22 February. Subsequently, demolition charges were set off within the ship, a Japanese bomb hit amidships further damaged her; and, before the port was evacuated on 2 March, the drydock containing her was scuttled. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 25 March 1942 and was Soon assigned to a new destroyer escort.

 

Later in the war, American pilots began reporting an American warship operating far within enemy waters. The ship had a Japanese bunked funnel but the lines for her four-piper hull were unmistakable. After almost a year under water, Stewart had been raised by the Japanese in February 1943 and commissioned by them on 20 September 1943 as Patrol Boat No. 102. She was armed with two 3" guns and operated with the Japanese Southwest Area Fleet on escort duty until arriving at Kure for repairs in November 1944. There her antiaircraft battery was augmented and she was given a light tripod foremast. She then sailed for the Southwest Pacific, but the American reconquest of the Philippines blocked her way. On 28 April 1945, still under control of the Southwest Area Fleet, she was bombed and damaged by United States Army aircraft at Mokpo, Korea. She was transferred on 30 April to the control of the Kure Navy District; and, in August 1945, was found by American occupation forces laid up in Hiro Bay near Kure.

 

In an emotional ceremony on 29 October 1945, the old ship was recommissioned in the United States Navy at Kure. Although officially called simply DD-224, she was nicknamed by her crew "RAMP-224," standing for "Recovered Allied Military Personnel." On the trip home, her engines gave out near Guam, and she arrived at San Francisco in early March 1946 at the end of a tow line. DD-224 was struck from the Navy list on 17 April 1946, decommissioned on 23 May 1946, and sunk a day later off San Francisco as a target for aircraft.

Stewart (DD-224) received two battle stars for her World War II service. "

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