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  USS S-1 (SS-105)
1 x 3 in (76 mm) 23-caliber gun later replaced by 1 x 4 in (102 mm) 50-caliber gun, 4 x 21 in (533 mm) bow torpedo tubes, twelve torpedoes
USS S-1 (SS-105) was the lead boat of the United States S-class submarines (not to be confused with the later British S-class submarines).
Emory S. Land, and commissioned on 5 June 1920, with Lieutenant Commander Thomas G. Berrien in command.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/u/us/uss_s_1__ss_105_.html   (693 words)

  
  USS S-3 (SS-107)
Submarine USS S-3 (SS-107) was authorized to be built by the United States Congressional Act of 29 August 1916 which stated in part: "....The President of the United States is hereby authorized to undertake prior to July first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the construction of....
During July of 1921, USS S-3 was attached to Submarine Division 12, which, along with Submarine Division 18, was to rendezvous off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for the longest voyage on record, at that time, for American submarines.
USS S-3 departed Pearl Harbor on 9 November 1921 and transited to the west coast of the United States...where she operated until mid-July of 1923.
ussubvetsofworldwarii.org /S-3.html   (833 words)

  
 USS S-2 (SS-106)
Submarine USS S-2 (SS-106) was authorized to be built by the United States Congressional Act of 29 August 1916 which stated in part: "....The President of the United States is hereby authorized to undertake prior to July first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the construction of....
USS S-2 (SS-106), second of the "S" Class submarines, was a "Lake-type"...one of three S-boats of the same general specifications but of different design types for performance comparison, which were contracted to separate companies by the United States Navy.
USS S-2 spent the rest of May, June, and July of 1928 in China; then resumed operations in the Philippines which she continued...until ordered to transit to the east coast of the United States, to the Philadelphia Navy Yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for inactivation.
ussubvetsofworldwarii.org /S-2.html   (601 words)

  
 USS Von Steuben SSBN632
Sunk after collision with USS PC-460 in Gulf of Panama.
Accidently sunk by naval aircraft from USS Midway (CVE-63) and
by USS Nautilus (SS-168) and USS Dace (SS-247).
www.concentric.net /~Petsch/Subman.htm   (1184 words)

  
 Perth 1 History
During a visit to Suda Bay Crete, on 1 January 1941, PERTH's aircraft was landed and subsequently deployed as courier and on other base duties.
Acting Commander Charles R. Reid, RAN, assumed command on 1 September 1941 and was relieved by Captain Hector M.L. Waller DSO and Bar RAN on 24 October 1941.
USS HOUSTON was still fighting although badly on fire.
www.hmasperth.asn.au /Perth_1.html   (2025 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
USS S-1 (SS-105) was the lead boat of the United States S-class submarines (not to be confused with the later British S-class submarines).
S-1 's prime contactor, the Electric Boat Company, subcontracted her construction to the Fore River Shipbuilding Company of Quincy, Massachusetts.
Emory S. Land, and commissioned on 5 June 1920, with Lieutenant Commander Thomas G. Berrien in command.
www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/u/us/uss_s_1.html   (646 words)

  
 USS BATFISH (SS 310) WAR PATROL #2
Commenced repairs to #1 M.B.T. salvage line which was discovered to be cracked, allowing the tank to flood.
There was noticeable improvement in the weather during the later part of the patrol, probably due to the seasonal shift of the monsoons.
From 1 March, 1944 to 6 April, 1944, eighteen bathythermograph cards were taken.
www.ussbatfish.com /patrol-2.html   (8600 words)

  
 Vice Admiral Charles B. Momsen, USN (Ret): A Biography
USS Squalus: Sinking, Rescue of Survivors and Salvage
As a midshipman he played football and baseball, and during the summer of 1918, served in USS Kansas (Battleship No.21) on Atlantic escort duty during World War I. He was graduated and commissioned ensign on 7 June 1919.
On 1 September 1955 he was transferred to the Retired List of the US Navy, and was advanced to the rank of Vice Admiral on the basis of combat awards.
www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq99-10.htm   (1324 words)

  
 USS Cusk (SS-348)-World's 1st Missile Submarine
The USS Cusk made history as the world's first missile submarine on July 25, 1947 when she successfully launched a Navy "Loon" missile near Point Mugu, California.
the USS Cusk (SS-348) sank the USS Constellation (CV64)
All information and pictures herein were contributed by, and are the property of crewmembers of the USS Cusk.
www.usscusk.com   (632 words)

  
 USS BATFISH (SS 310) WAR PATROL #4
Fired tubes 1, 2, and 3 on a 53 port track at range of 2670 yards, aimed at bow, MOT and stern by periscope.
The CM was lying too off to the westward so he must have been the one that gave her the final push.
A 1 to 1.5 knot westerly current through NGARUANGL PASSAGE was encountered each time we went through it submerged.
www.ussbatfish.com /patrol-4.html   (6064 words)

  
 USS GUNNEL SS-253 / First War Patrol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
At this point the GUNNEL had been fired upon at least 2 times by friendly forces and apparently the captain was not going to take any chances.
Ed Kaczur recalled some of the heartbreaks and problems the engineers had to overcome: "I asked our submarine tender moored nearby, the USS BEAVER, to magnuflux (X-ray) all gears and the results were not surprising.
However the officers and crew of the USS GUNNEL can be justly proud of the part they played as a reconnaissance and beacon submarine in the successful execution of an extremely difficult landing of a large expeditionary force on a strange and poorly charted coast.
members.aol.com /jmlavelle2/patrol1.htm   (6326 words)

  
 uboat.net - Allied Warships - Submarine USS Angler of the Gato class   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sold 1 February 1974 to be broken up for scrap.
It appears there is some confusion in the Japanese records and this writer believes the correct identification of the attacker is USS Angler.
Angler was damaged in a minor collision with freighter Export Adventurer during maneuvers with a destroyer, 15 nm S of Block Island, RI.
uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/2986.html   (587 words)

  
 Immigrant Ship Information
On 7th Feb.1917 when homeward bound, she was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine while 38 miles W by S of Fastnet Island, Ireland with the loss of 43 lives.
USS Charger as built by Sun Shipbuilders of Chester, PA as the cargo ship Rio de la Plata in 1940.
Returned to Italy in 1947, she was reconditioned in 1948 and fitted with a new raked bow which gave her an overall length of 665ft, and a tonnage of 23,562.
www.fortunecity.com /littleitaly/amalfi/13/shipc.htm   (21092 words)

  
 USS Saratoga Museum Foundation, Inc. - Guestbook!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I was discharged on 1 June 1959 as an EM1-P1.
I came onboard Jan 1 when she was in Mayport (what a way to start the new year, heh).
With the USS Intrepid Park in NYC and 10 ships of various size in the state of Massachusetts there is jut no room, economically or physically.
www.saratogamuseum.org /guestbook/guestbook02.html   (15178 words)

  
 USS Gunnel SS-253 / Sixth War Patrol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The USS ROBALO SS 273, Manning Kimmel skipper, was lost to a mine in Palawan Straits on July 26 less than a month before.
The torpedo from number 3 tube was seen to run straight and hot, (all six torpedoes in fact were seen and heard by sonar to run straight and hot) and the plot shows number 3, 4, and 6 must have run under their targets.
1 torpedo was seen to run erratically to the left.
members.aol.com /jmlavelle2/patrol6.htm   (21760 words)

  
 USN Ships--USS S-1 (Submarine # 105, later SS-105) -- Part II
Note the entrance to the submarine's small hangar, at left, booms used to erect the plane's structure, and the seaplane's metal floats and three-cylinder engine.
USS Murray (Destroyer # 97) is in the foreground, with USS Stribling (Destroyer # 96) outboard.
In the middle distance are USS Bell (Destroyer # 95), with USS Dyer (Destroyer # 84) inboard of her.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-s/ss105-d.htm   (454 words)

  
 World Aircraft Carriers List Photo Gallery: Aviation Oddities Part II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This is the submarine USS S1 (SS 105) with a MS-1 seaplane on deck.
USS Bagley (TB-24), a small torpedo boat, was the first US destroyer-type vessel to carry an aircraft.
This is USS Charles Ausburn (DD 294); she was fitted with a seaplane ramp over her forward gun in 1923.
www.hazegray.org /navhist/carriers/odd/index2.htm   (829 words)

  
 USS OAKLAND HISTORY 1944
Admiral S. Toyoda's appointment as Commander in Chief of Japanese Combined Fleet is announced; he succeeds Admiral Koga, killed in an airplane crash on 31 March 1944.
Bombardment by cruisers and destroyers on 1 and 2 September augments air strikes.
Aircraft from fast carrier task force (Vice Adm. J, S. McCain) strike Japanese shipping and aircraft in the Luzon area, P. Units of the Seventh Amphibious Force land Army troops on Asia Island off the northwest coast of New Guinea.
www.rtcol.com /~weshortz/history/hist44.htm   (11627 words)

  
 USSVI - Memorials by State - Hawaii
The church bell still hanging in the steeple was donated by the crew of the USS ARGONAUT (SS-166) before leaving on their third war patrol.
Their efforts to provide a proper marker for the common grave of seventeen USS F-4 crewmembers in Arlington Cemetery is the true memorial.
This is the story of the USS F-4 gravestone replacement memorial.
www.ussvi.org /mem/state-hi.htm   (1167 words)

  
 NL_92-1
Agenda items suggested were: (1) An annual "sail-in", or perhaps a Fleet cruise, or other regular annual or semi-annual get-together; (2) need or desire for a formalized SW II Organization, and what kind..
At 20 mph I drop the main; at 30 1 reef the mizzen; at 35 I furl 25% of the genoa.
When I shut down in the evening I select one of the two 105 amp-hour batteries then I go about my business of supper, log work, plan tomorrow's sail, read a bit, and eventually the lights are too din for any of these activities, so I go to bed.
www.alliedseawindii.org /Newsletter/nl_92-1.html   (21771 words)

  
 [No title]
20-Mar-1942; USS Growler (SS 215) is Commissioned 20-Mar-1965; USS George Bancroft (SSBN 643) is Launched 20-Mar-1909; USS F-1 (SS-20) Gasoline explosion in drydock 20-Mar-1945; USS Lancetfish (SS-296) Sinks alongside Boston Navy Yard pier when torpedo tube flood valve left open 20-Mar-1993; USS La Jolla (SSN-701) In collision with torpedo retriever.
25-Mar-1935; Keel is laid for the USS Pickerel (SS 177) 25-Mar-1943; Keel is laid for the USS Barbero (SS 317) 26-Mar-1914; USS K-6 (SS 37) is Launched 26-Mar-1944; USS Tullibee (SS-284) is lost with the loss of 79 shipmates when she is sunk just north of Palau.
28-Mar-1919; USS R-4 (SS 81) is Commissioned 28-Mar-1981; USS Bremerton (SSN 698) is Commissioned 28-Mar-1944; USS Sea Dog (SS 401) is Launched 28-Mar-1944; USS Sea Fox (SS 402) is Launched 28-Mar-1945; USS Trigger (SS-237) is lost with the loss of 91 shipmates when sunk in the Western Pacific.
www.geocities.com /gmtbase/events/march.doc   (516 words)

  
 Previous 1
1945, registered postal stationery t S APO 874, forwarded; return address on back is Columbia Red Cross Unit; at least 6 different US APO and BPO backstamps including 17 BPO.
USS Scorpion (thematic) postmark on postcard to US.
Appears 1 stamp has been moved from left of card to right.
www.mayoph.com /prevlist_1.htm   (10813 words)

  
 The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Asiatic Fleet and the USS Edsall - Mar. 1, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Our light cruiser USS MARBLEHEAD was so badly damaged that she could not carry on and retired from the battle, buried her dead at Tjilatjap and made it back to the United States via India, using pumps all the way to keep from sinking.
The aircraft carrier USS LANGLEY tried desperately to bring much-needed planes to the American forces, but too late, as by then the Japanese had control of the area, and she too was sunk.
The gunboat USS ASHEVILLE, alone, and having fulfilled her duties was heading for Australia and met a large Japanese task force, and was sunk with only one survivor, who later died in the Japanese prison camp in Makassar from inhuman treatment as did many others.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/854351/posts   (13425 words)

  
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Winston S. Churchill…In Defense of the British Commonwealth and Empire." There were a handful of these maps produced in 1947 and distributed to friends of Churchill’s.
Deemed dangerous enough to be classified as "Public Enemy #1" by the Department of Justice Division of Investigation (renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935).
Sturmbahnfûhrer in the 8th SS Cavalry Division "Florian Geyer" during World War Two, winner of the Knight’s Cross 1943, prisoner of the Soviet Union for ten years after the war.
www.antebellumcovers.com /hertlist3.htm   (8496 words)

  
 SS1 to SS 196
"In Memory of the 50 Men Lost on the USS S-28
Due to Collision with SS CITY of ROME off Block Island
"In Memory of the 105 Men on ETERNAL PATROL"
www.submarineart.com /ss1_order_form.html   (288 words)

  
 AO22 USS Cimarron
USS Cimarron (AO-22) steaming past USS Boxer (CVA-21), 1 June 1953.
USS Kanawha (AO-1) sunk by Japanese aircraft at Tulagi, Solomon Islands, 7 April...
AO-25; USS Cimarron AO-22; USS Thresher SS-200; USS Trout SS-202.
www.acctts.com /ao22cim/index2.htm   (463 words)

  
 USS Gunnel SS-253 / Fifth War Patrol
On arrival Freemantle from the Fourth War Patrol, GUNNEL moored alongside the submarine tender USS Pelias and a relief crew reported aboard to conduct a two week refit while the regular crew were sent ashore for Rest and Recuperation at local R&R facilities.
The crew were billeted at a vacation style hotel on the beach in North Freemantle, the officers in a facility on the outskirts of Perth, and skipper McCain accommodated at “Lucknow” a cottage reserved for submarine commanding officers recuperating after war patrol.
Latitude 06-19 S, Longitude 105—25 E. As the Captain described the wreckage he saw through the periscope, a somber silence prevailed in the conning tower.
www.jmlavelle.com /gunnel/patrol5.htm   (6899 words)

  
 USS Saratoga Museum Foundation, Inc. - Guestbook!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I was lucking enough to go on a 1 day family cruise and get pictures of aircraft touch and go's, the galley and many more interesting areas.
I served aboard the USS SARATOGA CVA60 from October, 1957 to July, 1959 as a PN3 in the ship's company Personnel Office under Personnel Officer CWO Thompson and CPO DeLoach.I was aboard for her 1st Med Cruise from 1 Feb 58 to 1 Oct 58.
I had a great time going overseas @ 17 years old.I was a crew member on the USS Saratoga from 1974 when she was in the ship yards after Viet Nam until 1976.
www.saratogamuseum.org /guestbook/guestbook03.html   (15290 words)

  
 USS GUNNEL SS-253 / Eighth War Patrol
The EIGHTH war patrol of the USS GUNNEL was conducted close off the southern coast of JAPAN in the BUNGO SUIDO, the area in the North Pacific Ocean lying at the entrance between the islands of SHIKOKU and KYUSHU into the Inland Sea.
The U.S.S. STEELHEAD was supposed to be about 250 miles in that direction so assume that is who it was as QUILLBACK was to the Southwest of us.
This one blew up with a tremendous bang, scaring hell out of one curious bird apparently coming in to rest on it or attracted by the splashes in the water which he apparently thought was a school of fish.
www.jmlavelle.com /gunnel/patrol8.htm   (16813 words)

  
 Dinamalar.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 PERLEBCDIC(1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1) A particular 8-bit extension to ASCII that includes grave and acute accented Latin characters.
In particular one popular nroff implementation was known to strip accented characters to their unaccented counterparts while attempting to view this document through the pod2man program (for example, you may see a plain "y" rather than one with a diaeresis as in ye).
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 NucNews - March 1, 2000
March 1 - Thousands of oil wells in southern Arkansas have left the land around them so contaminated with crude oil from routine operations that only the hardiest of plants can survive.
The budget for the year beginning April 1 calls for tax increases on higher-income people, a review of state subsidies and cuts in the government payroll.
Kuboyama was a radio operator aboard a fishing boat on March 1, 1954 when the United States tested a nuclear bomb on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, located in the central Pacific Ocean.
nucnews.net /nucnews/2000nn/0003nn/000301nn.htm   (19453 words)

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