The Ship Model Masters of Raven Arts in Washington State are the Nation's premier custom model ship building, restoration and fine art display case service located just West of Seattle, WA Custom built ship models such as this USS Texas SSN-775 Virginia Class Nuclear Submarine are built by pr...
We relieved our sister ship U.S.S. Wisconsin off the coast of North Korea in March of 1951 with the Task Force 77. My tour of duty was completed in August of that year and I was transferred back to Treasure Island near San Francisco. I have always been proud that I could serve my...
ships, including sister-ship Wasp. However, Randolph weathered the storm, butwas unable to make her Christmas arrival. Instead,the ship served another turkey dinner for Christmas. The youngest passenger was, undoubtedly, 8-year old Giuliano Cabbia, ...
All we knew was, she was our sister ship and had a crew similar to ours plus our Admiral. She and the crew and the Admiral no longer existed. A single torpedo fired from a Japanese submarine did this work. Her entire aviation fuel storage tanks exploded, a quarter million gallons of ...
Because I want so desperately to know if the ship still exists somewhere, perhaps as a houseboat in some bayou in Houston or Galveston, I tried searching through Texas historical newspapers the other day hoping to find reference to it. I did manage to find articles about his son’s yachts...
the Texas School Book Depository — now called the Dallas County Administration Building — that Lee Harvey Oswald took aim and killed President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. President Kennedy was riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas when he was struck....
By complete coincidence she was met by the Georgia, fresh from Ushant on her maiden raid; also by coincidence, Alabama’s sister ship CSS Florida was just up the coast at Pernambuco. The Confederates had formed an inadvertent South Atlantic Squadron. Though all three raiders were on separate ...
The 165-foot steel-hulled gunboat, “USS Palos” and sister ship “USS Monocacy” being built at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in 1913. The ships were then disassembled and transported across the Pacific to be rebuilt at Shanghai for service with the Yangtze...
I am proud to have served my country on this great ship. Awards: Navy Achievement,Battle E's,Good Conduct,14 commendations Richard Hundley Hails from: Kingwood, Texas Division: 5 Rate/Rank: BM2 Date of Birth: 12/05/1931 Years in Service: 9 Served on Iowa when she was put back in ...
the ship didn't take part in hostilities during WWI, but instead escorted the American president Woodrow Wilson on his trip to Brest for the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 along with other warships. Subsequently, both Arizona and its sistership were transferred to the Pacific Fleet, undergoing ...