Famous Ships - Post militaria related to Famous (and Infamous!) Ships

[RustyCanteen]

It's too bad they didn't preserve one of them, I think there are a few hulls left, but nothing fully intact.

 

They were pretty much present in every major naval related campaign of WWII.

 

RC

[vostoktrading]

The reason she was only called DD224 or RAMP224 when recovered was that the Navy had named another ship Stewart (thinking she had been lost). Clemson Class or as RC said Four Stacker.

 

Here is a great photo of one of her sisters, DD225 (USS Pope) looking very warlike. Notice the gun crew in action.

[RustyCanteen]

Another peace time accident, this occurred on the 23rd of May, 1939.

 

The U.S.S. Squalus (SS-192) was making a series of test dives off the Isles of Shoals when water enterered through the main induction and flooded the aft sections of the submarine killing 26.

 

More on the accident can be read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Squalus#Sinking_of_Squalus_and_recommissioning

 

 

 

This was during the first series of test dives on May 12th, 1939.

 

Following the accident and the arrival of the Falcon rescue operations began to rescue the remaining crew.

 

 

From Falcon, May 24th, 1939. The illustration on the cachet depicts the diving bell used to rescue 33 crew members.

 

Many good photos of the rescue can be seen here: http://www.navsource...es/08/08192.htm

[RustyCanteen]

Let's try those links again,

 

Link to more information on the sinking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Squalus

 

And to pictures of the rescue: http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08192.htm

[topdcnut]

S 1cl Joe Palermos tribute to the hamerin hank and the stuff that endears Marines and Soldiers to destroyermen on a beachhead. Sorry, the picture is crap and you need to read the story yourself.

[Garandomatic]

Got a pair of jumpers that belonged to a man that was on the Iowa when FDR went to Tehran, and were accidentally fired at by an American destroyer (USS William D. Porter).

[sgtpete]

 

How about this postal Money order receipt? Since today is the 70 anniversary!

[RustyCanteen]

Very nice, and very scarce too.

 

RC

[vostoktrading]

Very nice!

Yes she was sunk on November 13th. Among all the men the Sullivan brothers were lost.

The date on your paper is a day before she left for the Pacific Theater (August 22nd, 1942)

The last photo is how she looked about June of 1944.

Jon.

[RustyCanteen]

Since it has been a while since this thread was updated I thought I would post on it.

 

Surely every American knows the name "U.S.S. Arizona". BB-39 U.S.S. Arizona was lost during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941, nearly 1,200 of her crew were killed on that morning almost 71 years ago.

 

Postmark dated November 27th, 1941.

[vostoktrading]

Since it has been a while since this thread was updated I thought I would post on it.

 

Surely every American knows the name "U.S.S. Arizona". BB-39 U.S.S. Arizona was lost during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941, nearly 1,200 of her crew were killed on that morning almost 71 years ago.

 

Postmark dated November 27th, 1941.

Wow, Great cover RC! Posted only 10 days before the big event too!

[vostoktrading]

Here's some matchcovers of Battlewagons at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.

[vostoktrading]

More Battleships and the Vestal that was tied up next to Arizona.

[RustyCanteen]

Very nice matchbooks!

 

I have a few, but misplaced them or I would add them too.

 

Here is the Utah AG-16 book I have.

 

 

 

And the Tennessee:

 

[RustyCanteen]

Found the Tennessee book and added it to the post, looks like we're only missing the Maryland or there would be one for every BB at PH on December 7th 1941.

[vostoktrading]

Not a famous ship, but a ship that must feel like an orphan...

Did you ever sell a car and wonder how many owners it eventually had?

The history of the USS Yarnall is interesting following its service in the United States Navy.

http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-11US-Lincoln.htm

In US Service, Yarnall was commissioned 29 November 1918 and was commanded by William F. Halsey Jr. (You know that guy from WW2).

In 1922 she was decommisioned.

In 1930 she was recommisioned.

In 1936 she was placed out of commision again.

In 1939 she was placed in commission again.

Yarnall was one of the 50 elderly destroyers chosen to be transferred to the Royal Navy in return for the right to establish American bases on British territory in the western hemisphere. This was part of the Lend-Lease arrangement.

On 8 January 1941 USS Yarnall was stricken from the US registry and given to the Royal Navy as the HMS Lincoln.

She then became a British Warship, Then a Norwegian Warship, Then a Canadian Warship, then a Russian Warship.

Poor old girl must have felt like nobody wanted her.

Check out the link above.

Interesting Navy trivia...

[cap_george]

Well I don't know just how famous the USS San Diego (AKA California) ACR-6 is, but here is a nice group to a man that served on the USS California 1911-1914 (when she was renamed USS San Diego. He appears to have been on the ship when she was sunk on 19 Jul. 1918 by a German mine. The silk tapestry 28" x 21" is from the California's voyage to China, Japan, and the Philippines in 1911-12. The California was also the first "large Warship to enter (the newly dredged) Pearl Harbor on 14 Dec. 1911. Article: "The Pearl Harbor Naval Station, across Quarry Loch, was authorized in 1908. Dredging of the Pearl Harbor channel entrance began in 1910 and, on December 14, 1911, USS CALIFORNIA (CA 6) became the first warship to pass through the new channel into Pearl Harbor". (See photo).

 

 

This picture is from a German Sailor's album (S.M.S. Scharnhorst) - titled "American Ship Flag ship California in Tsingtau Jul 1912.

 

 

I am running out of space for pictures - so will have to add on another post. Here is the tapestry.

 

 

 

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[cap_george]

This is a continuation of the USS California/San Diego entry. Here are the medals and personal item to the sailor.

 

Here is an enlargement of his picture from the tapestry.

 

Here is him as a CBM in June 1943.

 

There are many other pictures, some postcards etc. Note: this is my favorite US group. He retired in 1930, and re entered the Navy on 20 Feb. 1942 (Retired) as a CBM and served until some time in 1945 (I need to check his ending date). He Served almost entirely on the USS Wasp CV-18. Here is an article I wrote for the California Military Museum: http://www.militarymuseum.org/USSSanDiego.html

 

Captain Albert

[Garandomatic]

So I guess it is a regional colloquialism, and the proper way to say it would be "am I not." I think I'd as soon punch myself in the face as go around saying "Am I not?" all the time, so next time I'll just say "Ain't" like everybody else around here does, or make it interesting with a triple negative, since it'd have the same meaning as a single negative.

 

Here's my Houston cover:

[Steindaddie]

The heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA - 30) . A beautiful ship, and a fighter to the end.

[MattS]

I haven't received it yet, but I recently bought a NWU top that belonged to CAPT Charles J. Berdar. As an O-4 he was a plankowner and the first XO of DDG-67 USS Cole in 1996.

 

[MattS]

The Chief Hospital Corpsman on board the Cole when she was bombed in 2000 is from Jay County, Indiana and our local museum has his coveralls on display that he wore. Chief Cliff "Doc" Moser is a great guy and a good friend.

[MattS]

I also have this commissioning plaque from the USS Skipjack, the first teardrop-hull nuclear submarine in service. This is from the first XO Ralph Carnahan.

[MattS]

USS Salamonie (AO-26) was a fleet oiler and the only navy ship named for anything in Jay County, Indiana (the Salamonie River). From March 1957 to January 1958, the commanding officer was famed submariner and author Captain Ed Beach.

[38Driver]

Cruise books count? I have this one from the USS Maryland. I also have the wartime USS California. I have a thing for the clipper bow battleships. Also have a crossing the line book of the USS New Mexico from 1925 and a book about a visit to Australia by the New Mexico from the same year.