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	USS Raleigh (LPD-1) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		USS Raleigh (LPD-1), the lead ship of her class of amphibious transport docks, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy named for the capital of North Carolina, which in turn honors the English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh, the first to attempt the establishment of an English settlement in North America.
		Raleigh proved herself during this deployment by simultaneously landing troops and equipment by means of boats and amphibious vehicles from her well and by helicopters from her flight deck.
		Raleigh was decommissioned 13 December 1991, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 25 January 1992, and disposed of as a target.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Raleigh_(LPD-1) (568 words)

	USS Raleigh (C-8) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		USS Raleigh (C-8) was a protected cruiser commissioned in 1894 and in periodic service until 1919.
		On 2 May, Raleigh got underway again, and, after visiting ports in the Carolinas, put into Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she was decommissioned on 10 June.
		Decommissioned on 12 October 1907, Raleigh was recommissioned on 21 February 1911.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Raleigh_(C-8) (1143 words)

	USS Raleigh I
		Raleigh with a full length figure of Sir Walter Raleigh as a figurehead, put to sea under Capt. Thomas Thompson on 12 August 1777.
		Raleigh, unable to reach Alfred in time to assist her, continued north and returned to New England early in April.
		As HBMS Raleigh, she continued to fight during the War for Independenee and took part in the capture of Charleston, S.C., in May 1780.
	www.multied.com /NAVY/frigate/RaleighI.html (614 words)

	Naval History/USS Raleigh CL-7
		The third Raleigh (CL-7) was laid down by Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Mass., 16 August 1920; launched 25 October 1922, sponsored by Miss Jennie Proetor, and commissioned in the Boston Navy Yard 6 February 1924, Capt. William C. Watts in command.
		Clearing Boston Harbor I February 1927, Raleigh embarked two detachments of Marines at Charleston, S.C. After participating in maneuvers at Guantanamo Bay, Cubn, she transited the Panama Canal for Corinto, Nicaragua, arriving 5 February to land the Marines, who were needed to deal with the bandit-plagued countryside.
		Raleigh was moored at berth F-12, on the east side of the north channel at Pearl Harbor, when the Japanese made their infamous attack.
	www.navyhistory.com /cruiser/Raliegh2.html (1319 words)

	USN Ships--USS Raleigh (CL-7)
		Raleigh operated in the south and central Pacific for most of the rest of that year, then was sent to the Aleutians, where she was employed until June 1945.
		USS Raleigh (CL-7) is kept afloat by a barge lashed alongside, after she was damaged by a Japanese torpedo and a bomb, 7 December 1941.
		The capsized hull of USS Utah (AG-16) is visible astern of Raleigh.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-r/cl7.htm (731 words)

	Raleigh City Museum Exhibits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Raleigh’s flag was authorized in 1899 -- as the result of a wish by the City fathers to present a standard to the captain of the Cruiser USS Raleigh, in return for that ship's gift of a captured Spanish naval gun to the city.
		That was the Navy’s second "Raleigh," a protected cruiser built by the Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia, and launched on March 31, 1892.
		Raleigh City Museum staff located the Spanish naval gun at the City of Raleigh's Fire Department Training facility, and have brought it to the Museum for display.
	www.raleighcitymuseum.org /flag.shtml (406 words)

	Raleigh City Museum
		The City of Raleigh is one of approximately 450 U.S. cities to have an official flag.
		Raleigh City Museum staff located the Spanish naval gun at the City of Raleigh's Fire Dept. Training facility, and have brought it to the Museum for display.
		The official flag committee of 1899 recommended that Sir Walter Raleigh’s colors of red and white be used for perpendicular bars (red, white, red) on each side of the flag.
	www.raleighcitymuseum.org /exhibits/indexEX09.shtml (367 words)

	USS Raleigh IV
		The fourth Raleigh (LPI)-I), an amphibious transport dock, was laid down by the New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn N.Y., 23 June 1960, launched 17 March 1962; sponsored by Mrs.
		Raleigh proved herself during this deployment by simultaneously landing troops and equipment hy means of boats and amphibious vehicles from her wel1 and hy helicopters from her flight deck.
		Raleigh returned to Norfolk 1 October and then underwent post-shakedown availability at New York 7 January 1964 through 13 March.
	www.multied.com /NAVY/MISC/RaleighIV.html (412 words)

	eagle48 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		USS MOOSBRUGGER (DD- 980) detaches from the redeploying USS JOHN F. KENNEDY battle group to undergo required maintenance in the Mediterranean.
		The crew of USS TRIPOLI (LPH-10) is awarded the Combat Action Ribbon for being endangered by enemy mine attack on 18 February.
		The USS NORMANDY (CG-60) diverts the Maltian flagged freighter BRAHMS in the Northern Red Sea en route from Bremen to Aqaba, and assists the USS WILLIAM V. with diversion of a second freighter enroute from Bremen to Aqabar, the Cyprus flagged NOVMENCHU also in the Northern Red Sea.
	www.odssa.com /Eagle/eagle48.htm (1097 words)

	NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The USS Raleigh was launched on March 31, 1892 at the north end of the shipyard, near what now is Trophy Park.
		The Navy's eighth cruiser, the Raleigh served in the Spanish-American War and was sold in 1921.
		RALEIGH saw active service in the Spanish-American War and was sold 5 August 1921.
	www.nnsy1.navy.mil /history/RALEIGHB.HTM (73 words)

	Koktavy Diaries - General Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		USS Raleigh - Appears to be the cruiser C-8, the first USS Raleigh that had particpated in the Spanish American War.
		USS Hannibal (AG-1), originally a collier, then utilized as a survey ship and was being used as a supplementary patrol vessel in the Panama Canal area at the outbreak of the First World War.
		The USS Pittsburgh (ACR-4) (orignally the USS Pennsylvania) and the USS South Dakota (ACR-9) were in transit to join the Atlantic Fleet.
	users3.ev1.net /~de238/stewart/kok_notes.html (397 words)

	Ralph E. Moore, Veteran of the USS West Virginia (BB-48)
		He served on the USS West Virginia from 1937 thru 1941, and was a crewmember on the USS West Virginia when it was attacked in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
		I know that he operated one of the launches that would ferry crew back and forth from the ship to the shore, and that he was also acted as an MP for a time, though I don’t know what his duty was the day of the attack.
		Sometime after the attack, he was transferred to the USS Cummings, and later to the USS Raleigh, as well as the USS Dobin, USS Whitney, and finally the USS Rigel, though I do not know the dates of service on these ships.
	www.usswestvirginia.org /veterans/m/moore.htm (560 words)

	List Events for USS GEORGE CLYMER APA 27 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		USS Raleigh LPD1: I attended a reunion for another ship I was stationed on last year and thoroughly enjoyed renewing old acquaintances and making new ones who I had something in common with.
		USS Iwo Jima Association: ALL USS Iwo Jima sailors and marines are encouraged to attend.
		USS Iwo Jima Association: Reunion to coincide with the commissioning of the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) in Pensacola, FL.
	www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageListEvents/1,13512,701346,00.html (1630 words)

	USS Arizona Memorial - Pearl Harbor Memorial Fund
		In 1952, a plaque mounted on a ten-foot-high basalt stone was dedicated to the memory of the 1,177 American servicemen killed on the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941.
		From that humble beginning, the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawai’i, was born.
		Straddling the sunken battleship USS Arizona in the waters of Pearl Harbor, the Memorial stands as a perpetual reminder of the tragedy.
	www.pearlharbormemorial.com /site/pp.asp?c=fqLQJ2NNG&b=238985 (418 words)

	USS Coronado (AGF 11)
		USS CORONADO was built by Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company in Seattle, Washington.
		USS CORONADO was designed as an Amphibious Transport Dock (LPD), built to transport Marines and their equipment to the scene of an amphibious assault, and move them ashore by landing craft and helicopters.
		Her first assignment was to relieve the USS LA SALLE (AGF 3) as the command ship for Commander, U. Middle East Force, stationed in the Persian Gulf.
	navysite.de /ships/agf11.htm (603 words)

	List Events for USS Raleigh - LPD 1
		USS Raleigh LPD 1: I attended a reunion for another ship I was stationed on last year and thoroughly enjoyed renewing old acquaintances and making new ones who I had something in common with.
		I have been watching for someone to put together a reunion for the Raleigh for several years now but no one so far has posted anything, so I decided to take the first step and send out feelers to see if there would be enough interest to warrant pursuing the idea any further.
		Saint Simons Island - GA USS Raleigh LPD1: I attended a reunion for another ship I was stationed on last year and thoroughly enjoyed renewing old acquaintances and making new ones who I had something in common with.
	www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageListEvents/1,13512,200004,00.html (473 words)

	VAESSEN
		Shortly after 1100 a rescue crew from the USS Raleigh was furnished to Warrant Officer Stanley Szmanski and Chief Terry MacSelwiney of the Utah.
		They went to the USS Tangier to obtain cutting equipment but were turned down, by probably a new OD, because the equipment was Title 'B' equipment.
		After the Raleigh was moved away from it's berth, he went diving for a bomb that went through the carpenter shop, just missing an aviation gas storage.
	www.ussutah.org /vaessen.html (868 words)

	Donald F. McLean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After two years of duty at the Naval Academy, he served on the battlehisp USS Mississippi until 1936 when he was assigned duty at the Naval Gun Factory, Washington, D.C. He then served as assistant gunnery officer on USS Honolulu and commanded the minelayer USS Montgomery from 1930 to 1941.
		Capt. McLean was the navigator on USS Raleigh during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
		Prior to assuming command of USS Tuscon in July, 1947, he was director of the Finance and Material Division of the Bureau of Naval Personnel.
	www.geocities.com /ntchistory/cencoms/mclean.html (275 words)

	History of USS Utah -- Part 3
		Szmanski obtained a cutting torch from the USS Raleigh and a hole was cut, allowing F2C John Vaessen to be rescued.
		The ship, which capsized to port after being torpedoed in the Japanese attack, is seen at about the 68 degree position at the completion of the first pulling period.
		The legacy of USS Utah was ever-present in the struggle of the Pacific.
	www.pastfoundation.org /Arizona/UtahHistory_3.htm (1104 words)

	NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Built here in 1794-99 was the U.S. frigate USS CHESAPEAKE, a sister ship of the USS CONSTITUTION and one of the first six ships to be built for the U.S. Navy after the Revolution.
		USS TEXAS, first U.S. naval battleship to be commissioned, was built here in 1889-92 as was USS RALEIGH, the first modern cruiser completely built by the government.
		The first aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy's history, the USS LANGLEY, was converted here between 1919 and 1922 from the collier USS JUPITER.
	www.nnsy1.navy.mil /History/HISTORY.HTM (627 words)

	Print Version
		The 88-year-old was the captain's "talker" on the USS Detroit, an "old Navy" Omaha class light cruiser that narrowly escaped harm that day.
		In the 1965 movie "In Harm's Way," the conversation between the captain (John Wayne) and the executive officer (Kirk Douglas) was similar to the one on the bridge of the USS Detroit on Dec. 7, Brown said.
		One bomb fell between the Detroit and the USS Raleigh, missing the flagship by about 10 feet, Wiltse wrote in his report.
	www.nwaonline.net /articles/2004/12/05/front/03pearl.prt (889 words)

	USS ARIZONA MEMORIAL: Photo Gallery
		PR-81 Water rises from the USS Oklahoma in the dramatic opening moments of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
		PR-93 USS Maryland alongside the capsized USS Oklahoma.
		PR-1080 The USS Phoenix steams down the Ford Island channel past the USS West Virginia (l) and the USS Arizona (r).
	www.nps.gov /usar/photos1/indexb.htm (623 words)

	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Cruisers
		1-19, 1903— Marines from the cruiser USS Atlanta landed to guard the U.S. Consulate at Santo Domingo during an insurrection in the Dominican Republic.
		7-13, 1903 — USS Brooklyn (ACR 3) landed a party of Sailors and Marines at Beirut, in the Turkish province of Syria (present-day Lebanon), to protect U.S. citizens and the American University during a brief period of political demonstrations.
		A force of 300 bluejackets and Marines from cruisers USS Columbia (C 12) and USS Newark (C 1), commanded by LCDR James P. Parker, landed under covering fire from the USS Newark to expel the Dominican rebels from the city.
	www.navy.mil /navydata/ships/cruisers/history/cghist2.html (531 words)

	eagle22 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		RALEIGH (LPD-1) commanded by Captain Richard J. McCarthy, IWO JIMA (LPH-7) commanded by Captain Michael S. Ohearn, LA MOURE COUNTY (LST-1194) commanded by Captain Raymond A. Duffy, MANITOWAC (LST-1180) commanded by Commander Dale A Rauch, and HASSAYAMPA (TAO-145) transporting the 4th MEB begin participation in Operation Desert Shield.
		Amphibious ships USS IWO JIMA, USS GUAM, USS RALEIGH and USS LA MOURE COUNTY, with the remainder of the 4th MEB embarked, arrive in the Gulf of Oman.
		The USS DAVID R. RAY (DD-971) commanded by Commander Wesley A. Bergazzi ceases participation in Operation Desert Shield, she has been on station since June 9.
	www.odssa.com /Eagle/eagle22.htm (1825 words)

	newsobserver.com \| Local & State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		RALEIGH -- What with the lofty plans to build a new convention center and revitalize Fayetteville Street Mall, there's little doubt Raleigh is trying hard to increase civic pride.
		Lest Raleigh be tempted to scorn the survey results, let it be noted that in 2001, Georgia's flag came in last.
		The state was mortified and this year, according to the association, Georgia voters nixed that maligned scrap of fabric in favor of a new design.
	newsobserver.com /news/story/1965950p-8335776c.html (545 words)

	Welcome to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Soon after, the keel of USS SWORDFISH, the first nuclear-powered submarine built in a naval shipyard, was laid, heralding in a new era for the Shipyard.
		Prior to the launching of USS Raleigh, a light frigate of 32 guns, all vessels purchased into the Continental Navy were commercial vessels taken from the trade and outfitted with armaments.
		However, USS America never sailed under the American flag, the vessel, which J. Jones anticipated would be his command, was instead given to the French Government in appreciation for France's contributions in money and manpower to the cause of American Independence.
	www.ports.navy.mil /history.htm (911 words)

	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Cruisers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The squadron consisted of USS Brooklyn (ACR 3), USS Massachusetts (BB 2) and USS Texas, USS Columbia (C 12) and USS Minneapolis (C 13).
		His squadron consisted of the protected cruisers USS Olympia (C 6), (flag), USS Baltimore (C 3), USS Boston, USS Raleigh (C 8), several gunboats and a revenue cutter.
		On this date, volunteer boat parties from the cruiser USS Marblehead (C 11) and gunboat USS Nashville (PG 7) commanded by Lieutenants C.M. Winslow and E. Anderson rowed within 100 feet of the beach to dredge up the cables at Cienfuegos.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/cruisers/history/cghist1.html (1042 words)

	Cruisers Descriptions, Pacific War, 1942
		USS Raleigh (CL-7) 12-6"; 4- 3" 10 21" torpedo tubes.
		Raleigh was moored at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese made their infamous attack.
		USS Trenton (CL-11) was moored at Balboa, Canal Zone during Pearl Harbor.
	www.ww2pacific.com /ships2.html (2238 words)

	USS ARIZONA MEMORIAL: Submerged Cultural Resources Study (Chapter 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The vessel was freed on December 16, 1941, and moved to the Yard for minor repairs.
		The ship was struck by a torpedo that had passed under the USS OGLALA while tied up to 1010 dock.
		The VESTAL was moored outboard of the USS ARIZONA.
	www.nps.gov /usar/scrs/scrs2q.htm (995 words)

	USN Ships--USS RALEIGH (C-8)
		USS Raleigh, a 3183-ton Cincinnati class protected cruiser, was built at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, and commissioned in April 1894.
		Raleigh decommissioned in April 1919 and was sold in August 1921.
		Raleigh is painted as she was during, and for several months after, the Spanish-American War.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-r/c8.htm (525 words)

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