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	Solo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Coco Solo, a U.S. Navy submarine base in the Panama Canal Zone.
		Solo climbing, or soloing, a style of climbing in which the climber climbs alone, without somebody belaying him.
		Solo exhibition, a display in a gallery, museum or other venue of the works of only one visual artist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solo (320 words)

	Sherwood Picking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During World War I, he was cited for his heroism as a submarine commander.
		During the inter-war period, he commanded the Submarine Base at Coco Solo, Canal Zone.
		In the course of duty, he died 1 September 1941 in a plane crash in Scotland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sherwood_Picking (119 words)

	May 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She was a graduate of the Balboa High School class of 1922 in the Canal Zone.
		He was stationed in the Canal Zone at Fort Gulick from 1970-75 and 1979-81.
		She was born in the Canal Zone, grew up in Curundu Heights and graduated from Balboa High School in 1966.
	www.pancanalsociety.org /obits/May_2004.htm (491 words)

	Panama Canal Zone - CZPolice
		In accordance with Chief Darden's plans to deal with the ever-increasing political tension on the Isthmus, the Governor of the Canal Zone directed that all police officers be required to reside in the Canal Zone as a condition of their employment.
		The Canal Zone Police, alerted to the planned demonstrations, compiled a group of police officers from both districts to the bridge to protect the dignitaries in the event the demonstrators became violent.
		Canal Zone Policemen were sent from the Gorgas Road location to the Tivoli Guest House to bolster the officers already there.
	www.czbrats.com /Articles/czp.htm (8724 words)

	Canal Zone Towns
		It was a canal labor camp during the French construction period and also under the Americans until the work in that area was finished.
		It was turned over to the Panama Canal Company as a townsite and became the home of Cristobal High School, when the town of Cristobal reverted to the Republic of Panama as part of the Treaty of 1955.
		Spoil taken from the lock excavations and from the Canal prism was piped by means of centrifugal dredges to fill the core of Gatun Dam.
	www.czbrats.com /Towns/thetowns.htm (5009 words)

	Naval Station Coco Solo Photo Album
		The Coco Solo Naval Reservation was officially established by Executive Order on April 9, 1920, "to the uses and purposes of a naval reservation, to be under the control of the Secretary of the Navy.
		Construction of the original Coco Solo Submarine Base began as early as 1919, during which $630,627.39 was expended by The Panama Canal from an appropriation of the Navy Department.
		One section, nearest the Navy entrance, was parallel to the main road that leads to PCC entrance to Coco Solo at the far end.
	panamaliving.com /NavalStationCocoSoloPhotoAlbum.html (493 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the beginning of WWII the Naval offshore patrol was extended to include air surface forces operating from Coco Solo, Canal Zone,and was regrouped as Task Force 6 and that prtion of it based at points north of the Caribbean and Gulf areas was designated Northern Patrol.
		At the beginning of the expansion of the anti-submarine marine warfare Patrol Wing 3 was based at Coco Solo and sent planes sweeping over both eastern and western approaches to the Panama Canal in search of enemy surface raiders, invasion forces, aircraft and submarines.
		At the beginning of WWII the Naval offshore patrol was extended to include air surface forces operating from Coco Solo, Canal Zone,and was regrouped as Task Force 6 and that portion of it based at points north of the Caribbean and Gulf areas was designated Northern Patrol.
	www.bamberger-j.com /militarysite/cocosolo/cocosolocz.htm (1136 words)

	USS S-1 (SS-105) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Following the aircraft experiments, S-1 served as flagship for SubDiv 2 until July 1927, when she was transferred to SubDiv 4.
		While attached to this division, she made operational cruises to the Panama Canal Zone in 1928, 1929, and 1930, during the spring months.
		She visited ports at Cristobal, Canal Zone and Coco Solo, Canal Zone; Cartagena, Colombia; Kingston, Jamaica; and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during these cruises, and spent the remaining months of those years operating along the New England coast, out of New London.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_S-1 (732 words)

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		I covered the Panama Canal Zone In 1960 I was given an additional assignment in the International Labor Field, representing the Public Services International, headquartered in London.
		Meanwhile, Panama negotiated with the United States reaching an agreement committing the United States to return the Panama Canal Zone to the Repbulic of Panama as of noon, 31 December 1999.
		I was asked by AFSCME leaders to continue in Panama as the Federation's Consultant until reversion of the Panama Canal to Panama is completed, being their eyes and ears in the country, monitoring their affiliates in Panama.
	www.heartwarmers4u.com /members?wsin (372 words)

	The USS S-17 - Gallant Lady of the Past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The S-boat arrived at Cavite on the Island of Luzon on 1 December 1921.
		USS S-17 departed Coco Solo in the Panama Canal Zone on 10 December 1934 and transited to the Philadelphia Navy Yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		USS S-17 patrolled in the water approaches to the Panama Canal from December of 1941 into February of 1942...then, in the Caribbean Sea during March of 1942 from a base at Saint Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands.
	thesaltysailor.com /s-boats/s17.htm (1027 words)

	USS ERIE PG-50 --- Gallery
		View of ERIE docked at pier 18, Balboa (Canal Zone) from hill overlooking docks.
		Partial starboard view, docked at Balboa, Canal Zone, with her scout plane, a Curtis SOC-2 Sea Gull (Serial Number 0395), on the dock, probably 1940-1941.
		View towards port bow, docked at Mechanical Division, Balboa, Canal Zone, sporting her new Mark 3 radar (on the six-inch gun director) and other alterations during an overhaul completed on 19 September 1942.
	usseriepg50.org /gallery1_000101.html (695 words)

	USS VEGA - April 2004 Cover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vega was probably carrying supplies to the Naval Base at Coco Solo in the Canal Zone.
		There are four Type 5 hks cancels from the Vega, all with a killer bar slogan of Coco Solo/Canal Zone, dated April 5, 1934 with a AM marking.
		One of the stamps is a Canal Zone Air Mail stamp and it was canceled April 5 at 2 PM.
	www.uscs.org /site%20archive/covers/April%202004.htm (307 words)

	Coco Solo - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Coco Solo - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Coco_Solo (100 words)

	USN Ships--USS S-44 (SS-155)
		Following initial operations off the New England coast, she was stationed at Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone from mid-1925 until 1927, when she shifted her base to San Diego, California.
		In 1937, her base was changed to Coco Solo again.
		Submarines at Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone, 1926
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-s/ss155.htm (521 words)

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		Most went to Norfolk NAS for further assignment but a few were transferred to Coco Solo Canal Zone.
		They were flown to Coco Solo while the household effects and cars were transported by ship.
		The buddy system was set up at Coco Solo, so each family was met by a Coco Solo family and assisted in moving into quarters.
	www.bamberger-j.com /trinidad/trinidad_mainpage.htm (72 words)

	LST-762
		On 14 October 1944, she departed for Coco Solo, Canal Zone, unescorted but hove-to in heavy seas on the 16th when a hurricane overtook her, and proceeded to New Orleans under great difficulty.
		She arrived at New Orleans on 20 October 1944, and on the 27th departed again for Coco Solo, Canal Zone, where she arrived 3 November.
		Transiting the Canal she proceeded to San Diego in company with the USS LSTs 766 and 939 unescorted and arrived there on 18 November 1944.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/WEBCUTTERS/LST_762.html (689 words)

	History of the USS Kretchmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is a high-level canal, with locks at either end to raise and lower transiting vessels, and a great artificial lake in the center formed by damming the Chagres River.
		On the morning of 17 June, the KRETCHMER carried on gunnery exercises on a sleeve towed by a B-25 warplane from the Canal Zone.
		Radioman Asmar said the total time to transit the Panama Canal was six hours and seven minutes and that we had to darken ship again upon entering the Pacific Ocean.
	www.megspace.com /government/kretchmer/kretchmer3.html (7076 words)

	Sub Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On 28 October 1923, the USS O-5 (SS-66) was operating with other units of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet under the command of Commander Submarine Force, Coco Solo, Canal Zone.
		Sheppard J. Shreaves, supervisor of the Panama Canal’s salvage crew and himself a qualified diver, had been working continuously throughout the night to dig the tunnel, snake the cable under the submarine, and hook it to Ajax’s hoist.
		Two of the other missing men’s bodies were recovered from alongside the boat and interred at the Mount Hope Cemetery in the Canal Zone.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/cno/n87/usw/issue_3/sub_hero.htm (1049 words)

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		After transiting the Panama Canal, the tender reached Pearl Harbor on 25 Fe bruary and operated in the Hawaiian area until 8 June when she proceeded back to the east coast of the United States, reaching Norfolk on 18 July.
		Upon completion of those exercises, she retur ned to San Diego on 1 March but soon sailed again for northern climes to operate between Dutch Harbor and Sitka from 29 April to 28 May before resuming her local tending operations along the coast of California.
		Her coastwise duties were interrupted between 16 January and 28 February 1 936 by an aviation support cruise to Post Office Bay, Galapagos Islands; Santa Elena, Ecuador; and Balboa, Canal Zone.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/auxil/az1.htm (3411 words)

	USS Auqila
		Reassigned as tender for the Submarine Base at Coco Solo, Canal Zone, Fulton arrived there 4 April 1923, and during the following year joined in exercises on both sides of the Panama Canal Zone as well as making a survey of Almirante Bay, Panama.
		Fulton was recommissioned 2 September 1930 for duty as a surveying ship in the Canal Zone, and on 3 March 1931 returned to Balboa.
		Aside from a voyage north for overhaul in the winter of 1931-32 she conducted surveys in the Canal Zone area until arriving at San Diego 13 August 1932 to prepare for duty in the Asiatic Fleet.
	www.navyhistory.com /MISC/Fulton.html (379 words)

	DD 698 Ault
		The yard work was completed on 15 March 1947, and Ault steamed to Charleston, S.C., her base for local operations and training exercises until 12 July, when she sailed for New Orleans and two years there as a Naval Reserve training ship.
		During her operations in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, she visited such ports as Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Kingston, Jamaica Coco Solo, Canal Zone; Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Veracruz, Mexico, and Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua.
		After transiting the Panama Canal and stopping at San Diego, Pearl Harbor, and Midway, she arrived at Yokosuka Japan, on 6 December and reported for duty with the 7th Fleet.
	www.globalsecurity.org /cgi-bin/texis.cgi/webinator/search/redir.html?query=haiti&pr=default&order=r&u=http%3A//www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/dd-698.htm (1821 words)

	AylwinIII DD- 355 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This plane had already completed a non-stop flight from Norfolk to Coco Solo, Canal Zone, and, as an "encore," would fly, again non-stop, from Coco Solo to San Francisco.
		Aylwin reached her assigned position on 13 October and, the next morning, began laying smoke to serve as marker for the plane.
		After transiting the Panama Canal the next day, she operated out of Gonaives, Haiti; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, before getting underway on the 13th for her initial station during Fleet Problem XX.
	www.navyhistory.com /destroyer/AylwinIIIdd355.html (7554 words)

	Joyce
		Her ports of call alter leaving New York on her Pacific mission were Guantanamo, Cuba (6/10/45); Coco Solo, Canal Zone (6/22/45); San Diego, California (7/1/45); Pearl Harbor, T. (7/11/45); Saipan, Marshall Islands (9/11/45); Sasebo, Japan (9/22/45); Leyte, P. (10/2/45); Manila, P.
		Sailing from Guantanamo Bay 20 June, she transited the Panama Canal the 23d and steamed via San Diego for Pearl Harbor where she arrived 11 July for duty with the Pacific Fleet.
		Sailing from San Diego the 25th, she passed through the Canal 3 December and put into New York harbor on the 10th.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/WEBCUTTERS/Joyce.html (2517 words)

	1942-1954
		During this period the squadron was very active, and moved from one war zone to another in both the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean areas.
		VP-45 changed homeports in early 1950 to Norfolk, Virginia, and in 1951 the squadron, with twelve PBMs, was moved to the Naval Station Coco Solo, Canal Zone (Atlantic side of the Isthmus).
		The Commanding Officer after CDR O. Dean, who was relieved in December 1949, was CDR T. White, who commanded to September 1951.
	www.vp45association.org /1942%20-%201954.htm (1263 words)

	postcardspage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Panama and her sister ships operated between Cristobal, Canal Zone and New York carrying freight and passengers for the Isthmian Canal Commission and later the Panama Canal.
		In February 1927 Panama was sold to the Alaska Steamship Company to operate from Seattle to points northwards as SS Aleutian.
		Other highlights included recording her 50,000th deck landing and representing the United States at the 12th Anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea celebrations held in Melbourne, Australia.
	www.btinternet.com /~clive.fennessy/newpostcards.html (306 words)

	A sailor, his ship and the Panama Canal Zone
		All photos with the exception of a few were taken by Ken while serving on the USS Buchanan and at the Naval Air Station, Coco Solo Canal Zone 1935 - 1936.
		Buchanan transited the Panama Canal in July 1919 to join the Pacific Fleet, serving along the West Coast until she was placed out of commission in June 1922.
		Buchanan was assigned to the Battle Force and continued her work in the Pacific for seven more years.
	www.czimages.com /CZMemories/buchanan/buchanan_index.htm (443 words)

	Waterman
		In that role, the destroyer escort remained moored in Yokosuka harbor from 19 to 29 September.
		On the afternoon of 29 September, Waterman received homeward-bound orders after 20 months of duty in the Pacific war zone; and she stood out of Tokyo Bay on 2 October.
		After steaming via Pearl Harbor, she arrived at San Pedro, Calif., on 20 October and remained there until 6 November, when she got underway for the Canal Zone and Philadelphia.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/w4/waterman.htm (2053 words)

	Operation Highjump: USS Currituck
		The standard four-bar (figure 4), the double-circle all purpose (figure 5) and at least one known "war-time" issue U.S. Navy four-bar postmark was applied on April 10 (inverted) 1947 while the ship was at Balboa, Canal Zone (figure 6).
		Another cover is known to have received the local postmark of Coco Solo, Canal Zone on 12 April 1947 (figure 7).
		These latter two covers can be identified by the OPERATION HIGHJUMP rubber stamp cachet and the return address of crewmembers of the Currituck.
	www.south-pole.com /currituck.htm (573 words)

	history
		She Dade transit on the Canal on March 7th and arrived at the west Coast port on the 16th, On May 10, 1949 the ship was back at Balboa, Panama, and after another passage of the Panama Canal, operated for a short tine in Caribbean waters.
		BUCKLEY departed the combat zone on 5 November steaming for the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong where she assumed the duties of SOFA ADMIN Hong Kong.
		At the close of the year DENNIS J. BUCKLEY was continuing her active support of the Seventh Fleet commitments to the war effort by her naval gunfire support in the South Vietnam area.
	www.djbuckley.com /history.htm (10035 words)

	page122 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		(10 August 1953--) born in Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone.
		She has one child from a previous marriage: Anne Louise Rollefson Terry (27 November 1978--).
		(24 July 1954--) born in Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone.
	www.godt.de /documents/Book-EWII/Pages100/page122.htm (108 words)

	R.C. Wilson: The Panama Canal
		When I think of the Panama Canal I always remember when in 1929 my father, mother and myself had tickets to go on vacation to Coco Solo Canal Zone.
		It was a vacation, but my father a telegraph operator for the Rock Island Railroad was scheduled for an interview as a telegraph operator in Coco Solo Canal Zone.
		We had a city farmer's farm in the edge of De Valls Bluff, Arkansas.
	oldkunnel.net /rcwilson_8.html (796 words)

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