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USS Pueblo
USS ''Pueblo'' may refer to: * USS ''Colorado'' (ACR-7), an armored cruiser, renamed ''Pueblo'' (CA-7), and served from 1905 until 1927 * USS ''Pueblo'' (PF-13), a ''Tacoma''-class frigate, that served from 1944 until 1947 * USS ''Pueblo'' (AGER-2), a US Navy spy ship (Navy intelligence), boarded and captured by North Korea in 1968, still currently in commission {{DEFAULTSORT:Pueblo United States Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Pueblo (AGER-2)
USS ''Pueblo'' (AGER-2) is a , attached to Navy intelligence as a spy ship, which was attacked and captured by North Korean forces on 23 January 1968, in what was later known as the "''Pueblo'' incident" or alternatively, as the "''Pueblo'' crisis". The seizure of the U.S. Navy ship and her 83 crew members, one of whom was killed in the attack, came less than a week after President Lyndon B. Johnson's State of the Union address to the United States Congress, a week before the start of the Tet Offensive in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War and three days after 31 men of North Korea's KPA Unit 124 had crossed the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and killed 26 South Koreans in an attempt to attack the South Korean Blue House (executive mansion) in the capital Seoul. The taking of ''Pueblo'' and the abuse and torture of her crew during the subsequent eleven months became a major Cold War incident, raising tensions between western and eastern powers. North Korea stated that ''Pue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Colorado (ACR-7)
The second USS ''Colorado'' (ACR-7/CA-7), also referred to as "Armored Cruiser No. 7", and later renamed ''Pueblo'', was a United States Navy armored cruiser. She was the second US Navy ship named ''Colorado'', and the first to be named after the state of Colorado. The first, , was named for the Colorado River. Construction ''Colorado'' was laid down on 25 April 1901, by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, and launched two years later on 25 April 1903. She was sponsored by Miss C. M. Peabody, the daughter of the Governor of Colorado, James H. Peabody; and commissioned on 19 January 1905. Service history Pre-World War I ''Colorado'' sailed on her shakedown cruise down the east coast to Target Bay, Culebra Island, Puerto Rico, to train in Caribbean waters, reaching Culebra, on 24 March 1905. Following the shakedown, she joined Division Four, Cruiser Squadron, Atlantic Fleet, at Provincetown, Massachusetts, on 14 May. ''Colorado'' took part in the preliminary test of , a stee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Pueblo (PF-13)
USS ''Pueblo'' (PF-13), a , was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Pueblo, Colorado. Construction The second ''Pueblo'' (PF-13) was laid down under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1431) at the Kaiser Cargo, Inc., Yard #4, in Richmond, California, on 14 November 1943; launched on 20 January 1944, sponsored by Seaman Carol Barnhart, USN (W); and commissioned on 27 May 1944. Service history Following shakedown off the southern California coast, ''Pueblo'' fitted out with highly sensitive meteorological instruments, reported for duty as a weather tracking ship with the Western Sea Frontier, on 26 October 1944. Assigned to the Northern California Sector, and based at San Francisco, she patrolled on ocean weather stations, reporting weather conditions and acting as lifeguard ship beneath the trans-pacific air routes, until March 1946. Then ordered to the east coast, she departed California on the 13th and headed for Charleston, South Carolina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
