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I was up on the foc'sle (I am picking up all the lingo) a little while ago, and watched us leave. There was another destroyer like ours, between us and the pier. We untied from her, and a tug pulled us away. It would have made for some great photos, but they do not allow ph...
I'd been in the Army, to High School, an aircraft factory worker and to war and back as a sailor in the navy. I was only 17 years old, but now an older 17. Fortunately, I still had a young boy's body with all it's urges, so was thinking of my one-week Liberty and hitchhik...
aOver 300 American Naval personnel arrive at Chennai port with the U.S. warship guided missile destroyer - USS McCampbell, on Monday (November 04), to undertake a joint exercise later this week with the Indian Navy on the Bay of Bengal. 300名美国海军人员到达在Chennai口岸与美国。 在星期一军...
It includes the hull classification symbols DE (both Destroyer Escort and Ocean Escort), DEG, and DER. The Lend-lease Act was passed into law in the USA in March 1941 enabling the United Kingdom to procure merchant ships, warships and munitions etc. from the USA, in order to help with ...
The propelling machinery was of improved design based on experience gained in the operation of destroyer machinery. Manufactured by Westinghouse Electric Corporation, each set of turbines consisted of one cruising, one high pressure and one double flow low pressure. Fantail view of USS Atlanta during...
After all that, I was still at Coronado Island Naval base and had a couple of weeks off waiting for my orders to a destroyer that was on a training cruise for new recruitsto Hawaii and back![This may have happened in ’64, my memory is fading]. So during the wait time, I was ass...
–Further, 3 months before Pearl Harbor, the US “White Patrol†(2 battleships. 2 cruisers, 2 destroyer squadrons) had assumed responsibility for blockading German ship movements through the Denmark Straits (the possible break-out of the Tripitz being the fear). ...