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USS Vance
USS ''Vance'' (DE-387) was an Edsall class destroyer escort, ''Edsall''-class destroyer escort, named after Joseph Williams Vance, Jr. Namesake Joseph Williams Vance Jr. was born on 4 December 1918 in Memphis, Tennessee. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve on 26 July 1940 as an apprentice seaman. After serving at sea on the during the late summer and early fall, he was appointed midshipman on 22 November and reported to ''Prairie State'' (IX-15) for further training. Commissioned Ensign (rank), ensign on 28 February 1941, Vance joined in the Philippine Islands on 16 April. Soon after the Empire of Japan, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December (8 December west of the date line), ''Parrott'' joined the American-British-Dutch-Australian effort to stem the Japanese tide sweeping down from the north. During the 24 January 1942 Battle of Makassar Strait, Vance was in charge of the destroyer's 12-tube battery of 21-inch torpedo tubes—in effect the ship's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown Shipbuilding
The Brown Shipbuilding Company was founded in Houston, Texas, in 1942 as a subsidiary of Brown and Root (now KBR) by brothers Herman and George R. Brown to build ships for the U.S. Navy during World War II. Brown Shipbuilding Company ranked 68th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts. In 1941, Navy officials asked the Brown brothers to build four submarine chasers. The brothers had no shipbuilding experience, but had helped build Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. In 1942, the brothers formed Brown Shipbuilding and, with $9 million in Navy funding, built the Green's Bayou Fabrication Yard at the juncture of the Houston Ship Channel and Green's Bayou. After delivering the ships, Brown received orders for landing craft and more sub chasers, and eventually won an order for destroyer escorts at $3.3 million per ship. Between May 1943 and August 1944, Brown turned out 61 destroyer escorts, an average of one per week. Perhaps the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
