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	Author James Hornfischer \| jameshornfischer.com
		Seven survivors of the USS Houston, joined by approximately 200 friends and family, gathered in downtown Houston on Saturday, March 3, 2007, to remember the sacrifices of the men from the USS Houston.
		Wreaths were laid at the foot of the marble monument, in tribute to the men of all nations who fought in the Dutch East Indies in 1942.
		It was gratifying to appear at such a well attended venue, and before such a robust gathering of USS Houston family and friends.
	www.jameshornfischer.com (738 words)

	USS Houston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Houston (AK-1) was originally the German freighter Liebenfels, scuttled in 1917, but then raised by the Navy and used as a transport during World War I.
		The second Houston (CA-30) was a heavy cruiser commissioned in 1930 and sunk at the Battle of the Java Sea in early 1942.
		The fourth Houston (SSN-713) is a Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine commissioned in 1982 and still on active service as of 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Houston (180 words)

	Naval History/USS Houston CA-30
		The second Houston (CA 30) was launched by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va., 7 September 1929, sponsored by Miss Elizabeth Holcombe, daughter of the mayor of Houston, Tex.; and commissioned as CL 30 17 June 1930, Captain J. Gay commanding.
		Houston took one hit, disabling her No. 3 turret, and cruiser Marblehead was so damaged that she had to be sent out of the battle area.
		Houston's fate was not known by the world for almost 9 months, and the full story of her courageous fight was not fully told until after the war was over and her survivors were liberated from prison camps.
	www.multied.com /Navy/cruiser/Houston2.html (1205 words)

	USS Sam Houston (SSBN-609) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		USS Sam Houston (SSBN-609), a Ethan Allen-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the President of the Republic of Texas.
		In 1981, in compliance with the SALT I treaty, the missile section of Sam Houston was decommissioned.
		From September 1982 to September 1985, Sam Houston was modified in Bremerton, Washington, as an Amphibious Transport to carry frogmen or commandos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Sam_Houston_(SSBN-609) (821 words)

	USS Sam Houston (SSBN 609)
		USS SAM HOUSTON spills less than 50 gallons of low-level radioactive water during a test while she is in the PSNY undergoing maintenance.
		USS SAM HOUSTON runs aground in Carr Inlet of the southeast tip of Fox Island in the Puget Sound while operating in shallow water to determine how quiet the vessel is in water.
		USS SAM HOUSTON was laid down on 28 December 1959 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va.; launched on 2 February 1961; sponsored by Mrs.
	navysite.de /ssbn/ssbn609.htm (1257 words)

	USS Houston CA-30
		USS Houston was base at Cavite then sailed to Ilo Ilo arriving December 4, 1941.
		At Ilo Ilo, the USS Houston fueled, victualed and made ready for action which was felt to be imminent by those in USN Command.
		The USS Houston and HMAS Perth were at Tanjong Priok at 2.30pm on Saturday 28th February, 1942 after the Battle of the Java Sea.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /ships/usn/CA-30.html (284 words)

	USN Ships--USS Houston (CL-81)
		USS Houston, a 10,000-ton Cleveland class light cruiser, was built at Newport News, Virginia.
		She was commissioned in December 1943, shook down in the Caribbean and arrived in the Pacific war zone at the end of May 1944, in time to participate in the Marianas campaign that began in mid-June with the invasion of Saipan.
		During this operation Houston was part of the aircraft carrier forces that struck Japanese targets ashore and defeated the enemy's fleet in the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-h/cl81.htm (832 words)

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		NORTHAMPTON The second HOUSTON (CA-30) was launched by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va., 7 September 1929; sponsored by Miss Elizabeth Holcombe, daughter of the mayor of Houston, Tex.; and commissioned as CL-30 17 June 1930, Captain J. Gay commanding.
		HOUSTON became flagship of the U.S. Fleet 19 September 1938, when Rear Admiral Bloch broke his flag on board her, and maintained that status until 28 December, when she returned to the Scouting Force.
		She arrived Houston, Tex., 7 April for a brief visit before returning to Seattle, where she arrived 30 May. Assigned as flagship Hawaiian Detachment, the cruiser arrived Pearl Harbor after her post-overhaul shakedown 7 December 1939, and continued in that capacity until returning to Mare Island 17 February 1940.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/cruisers/cl30.txt (1218 words)

	ModelWarships review
		The Houston and her close sister the Chicago had an extended forecastle with extra accommodations for flag staff and were easily recognizable from the other ships in the class.
		The Houston was completed in June 17, 1930 and soon after completing here trials, she sailed for the Pacific to become the flagship of the Asiatic Fleet.
		Houston received bomb damage that disabled her number three turret and Marbelhead was so badly damaged that she had to be sent home.
	www.modelwarships.com /reviews/ships/ca/ca-30/700-ca/houston.html (977 words)

	USS Houston (SSN 713)
		USS HOUSTON snagged a tow cable attached to the tug BARCONA, pulling it under and killing one of its sailors.
		A flooding incident aboard USS HOUSTON results in eight crew members being reassigned for psychological reasons.
		A navigation error aboard USS HOUSTON results in the loss of a sonar device.
	navysite.de /ssn/ssn713.htm (209 words)

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		Houston and Perth were ordered to leave the Java sea and proceed to the port of Tjilitjap in the southern end of Java island from which they will continue to resist the Japanese advance.
		Houston also used up much of ammunition in the Battle of the Java Sea the day before, and soon the gun crews were down to star-shells, and using up the last of these.
		Houston's gunners scored hits on several ships including the heavy cruiser Mikuma, damaging her electric circuits, and she was out of the battle for some ten minutes.
	members.lycos.co.uk /brightonbsac/news/pg_news_articles_houston_section_6.htm (2004 words)

	The Facts
		It was meant as a reminder that the second USS Houston didn’t sink like the first did earlier in the war.
		USS Houston Association members purchased a new plaque, with correct information about the gun, that will be mounted on the gun barrel’s base Tuesday.
		Isom is grateful that the VFW post has taken care of the gun barrel and that its members have invited the USS Houston Association to rededicate the plaque on Veterans Day.
	www.thefacts.com /print.lasso?ewcd=b2fa99c756c441e1 (998 words)

	The Daily Cougar--Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		A miniature replica of the USS Houston is displayed in the George R. Brown Room in the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library.
		The Houston, the flagship of the American Asiatic fleet, and the Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth were all that remained of the multinational fleet of 14 ships that had been assembled Feb. 17, 1942, to combat Japanese naval forces converging on Java from two directions.
		The bell from the USS Houston is mounted for display to re-tell the story of the World War II war cruiser.
	www.stp.uh.edu /vol65/110/features/features-index.html (1608 words)

	USS Sam Houston Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		USS SAM HOUSTON (SSBN-609) was the third nuclear powered submarine and the first 608 class SSBN to be built at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company.
		SAM HOUSTON was the initial FBM submarine to deploy to the Mediterranean and join the NATO Forces there, and also the first POLARIS submarine to make a port-of-call during a patrol, when she made a short operational visit to Izmir, Turkey.
		Prior to this overhaul, SAM HOUSTON had spent over 70% of her life at sea submerged, ready to perform her mission of deterrence from Holy Loch Scotland.
	members.bellatlantic.net /~gitby/ssbn609.htm (703 words)

	USN Ships--USS Houston (CA-30)
		USS Houston, a 9050-ton Northampton class light cruiser, was built at Newport News, Virginia.
		Houston's Commanding Officer, Captain Robert A. Dawes, is seated in the center, behind the life ring.
		Houston's colors are half-masted pending return of her funeral party, ashore for burial of men lost when a bomb hit near her after eight-inch gun turret two days earlier during a Japanese air attack in Banka Strait.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-h/ca30.htm (863 words)

	USS San Francisco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The USS HOUSTON (SSN 713) is the United States Navy's first submarine to be named HOUSTON and the fourth United States vessel named in honor of the city of Houston, Texas.
		In the Battle of Java Sea on February 26, 1942, HOUSTON and the ABDA force boldly engaged a large japanese invasion fleet steaming to Java.
		USS HOUSTON (SSN-713) joined the fleet as the 132nd Nuclear powered submarine and the 20th of the Los Angles class.
	www.guam.navy.mil /713.htm (520 words)

	U.S.S. HOUSTON
		U.S.S. was launched on 7th September 1929 and commissioned on 17th June 1930.
		She sailed on 4th January 1939 to Norfolk, Key West, Houston, and arrived in Seattle on 3rd May. She was flagship of the Hawaiian Detachment from 7th December 1939 until February when she returned to Mare island for a refit.
		HOUSTON was at Iloilo on the S.E. coast of Panay in the Philippines on 7th December 1941.
	www.spruso.com /1houston.htm (738 words)

	William A. Bernrieder Collection
		He supported the USS Houston (CA-30) during her years of service as a member of the Cruiser Houston Committee, and following the ship's sinking, continued to memorialize the ship and interact with surviving crew members.
		In 1927 he was appointed to the Cruiser Houston Committee, which coordinated the drive towards obtaining a cruiser named "Houston." Thousands of letters and telegrams were sent to Washington as part of the crusade, which was successful.
		Most of the correspondence in those files discusses the USS Houston and related matters, although there is one letter, dated August 23, 1977 which includes Bernrieder's recollections of the Camp Logan riots in Houston in 1917.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/uhsc/00016/hsc-00016.html (1569 words)

	CAAB - USS Houston to make Guam its homeport in 2004 - 17/3/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Houston, a 362-foot, 20-year-old fast-attack sub, represents the third and final component of the newly reactivated Submarine Squadron 15.
		The Houston, a Los Angeles class sub, is slated for roughly a “13-year stay on the island,” he said.
		The Houston, Corpus Christi and San Francisco are the only fast-attack submarines stationed outside the continental United States, the squadron commander said.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /caab/articles/guam2.htm (233 words)

	COFEPOW - Ships - USS Houston
		The Houston and the HMAS Perth (Australian light cruiser) were making a night run toward the northeast entrance of the Sunda Strait to attempt to escape from the Japanese and into the Indian Ocean.
		The 60th anniversary of the sinking of the Houston and Perth, February 28, 2002, was approaching.
		I had met Kelly Cope through our mutual interest in the Houston and we soon began to put together a group of divers to mirror the composition of the ABDA task force that was operating in the Java Sea 60 years earlier.
	www.cofepow.org.uk /pages/ships_uss_houston.html (2947 words)

	Lost Battalion
		The USS Republic had been in dry-dock just prior to the Battalion’s boarding and had four 3-inch guns and one 5-inch gun (on the “fan-tail”) mounted on her.
		That she was christened, USS Houston, came about largely through the efforts of William A. Burnrieder, an assistant to the Mayor of Houston, as well as many other citizens of Houston, including many hundreds of school children, who all wrote letters petitioning the Secretary of the Navy to name the ship for their City.
		Admiral Hart immediately ordered the USS Houston to stop repairs that were underway and move from the Cavite Navy Yard (across the bay from Manila) to the Port of Ilo Ilo, on the island of Panay, where she arrived on the 4
	www.sheriff.co.wise.tx.us /lost_battallion.htm (1918 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		The USS Houston, a light cruiser of the Cleveland class built at the Norfolk Navy Yard, was the third United States naval vessel to be so named.
		The citizens of Houston, through the purchase of war bonds, subscribed sufficient funds for the construction of the new Houston as well as for a light aircraft carrier, the USS San Jacinto.
		The Houston was decommissioned in 1947 and, after an unsuccessful attempt by the city of Houston to save her for display in a county park, was scrapped in 1959.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/HH/qth3.html (624 words)

	SSN 713 Houston
		USS HOUSTON (SSN 713) joined the fleet as the 132nd nuclear powered submarine and the 20th of the Los Angeles class.
		Her technologically advanced nuclear propulsion plant allows HOUSTON the capability of exploring the depths freed from all ties to the surface, while her incredibly sensitive and sophisticated sonar and state of the art fire control system guide her deadly weapons, allowing HOUSTON to attack targets at sea or on land.
		Because of her stealth, HOUSTON is the ideal platform for such missions as Anti-Submarine Warfare, Anti-Surface Warfare, Strike Warfare, Mine Warfare, Special Forces Operations, Intelligence gathering and search and rescue.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/ssn-713.htm (701 words)

	USS Sam Houston II
		The second Sam Houston (SSBN-609) was laid down on 28 December 19.~9 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va.; launched on 2 February 1961; sponsored by Mrs.
		On her first patrol, Sam Houston, manned by the blue crew, operated continuously submerged for 48 days and 2 hours, then moored alongside the submarine tender, Proteus, in Holy Loch, Scotland.
		On 10 August 1966, she returned to the United States for the first time since her deployment in 1962 and commenced a major overhaul at the United States Naval Shipyard at Portsmouth, N.H. On 30 October 1967, she got underway for sea trials, and, a month later, her blue crew began shakedown training.
	www.multied.com /navy/Submarine/samhoustonII.html (439 words)

	USS Houston Namesake City visit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Houston Navy Week is one of 20 such weeks this year in cities throughout the heartland arranged by the NAVCO, a new unit tasked with enhancing the Navy's brand image through such events.
		Deleon, USS Houston's Sailor of the Year and Davies presented Hendee with the photo, a cap and coin as souvenirs from their visit to his show.
		Davies and Deleon represent the USS Houston and are visiting the city of Houston as part of Navy Office of Community Outreach (NAVCO) tours around the country in support of recruiting.
	www.csp.navy.mil /news/713namesake.html (354 words)

	Central Houston - Main Street Square
		HOUSTON, TX May 8, 2002 - Main Street Square, Houston's downtown central plaza, will boast innovative architecture and a design built around two light rail stations in the 900 and 1100 blocks of Main Street.
		Main Street was the site of the USS Houston volunteer induction, lunch counter desegregation and was the home of the historic Lamar Hotel.
		Central Houston Civic Improvement, Inc. is the charitable affiliate of Central Houston, Inc., a member organization dedicated to the revitalization of Houston's downtown and center city.
	www.centralhouston.org /Home/AboutCentralHouston/CentralHoustonNews/MainStreetSquare (1034 words)

	USS Boyd DD-544 - (CripDiv I)
		On the fantail of the HOUSTON, which housed the seaplane hanger and crane, one of the Vought OS2U Kingfisher observation planes was hanging off of the starboard catapult.
		The PAWNEE assumed the towing of the HOUSTON from the USS BOSTON.
		Final transfer of HOUSTON recovered personnel from BOYD to MOBILE was accomplished on afternoon of 17 OCT 1944 and Task Unit proceeded at the slow average speed of 4 knots toward Ulithi.
	pages.cthome.net /boyd544/cripdiv_1.html (3012 words)

	USS Houston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Houston was the fourth of the five "treaty cruisers" built during the 1930s.
		Houston was one of only three American cruisers to win the Presidential Unit Citation.
		The outcome never in doubt, she was lost with 700 of her crew.
	www.marylandsilver.com /uss_houston.htm (189 words)

	Carrier Battles in the Pacific - 1942 ... and other WWII battles in the Pacific (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Hart made his final tour of the Houston when she put to port to bury its dead and put ashore the wounded members of the crew from the air attack on February 4th.
		Houston's gunners used shells with the red dye to help the gunnery officer distinguish between the fall of Houston's and other ships' shells, and to correct fire solution.
		USS Houston was right behind, and with his speed dropping Captain Gordon on Exeter's bridge had no choice but to swing hard to port to avoid collision with Houston.
	www.everblue.net /1942/java.php (6444 words)

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