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USS Sigsbee (DD-502)
USS ''Sigsbee'' (DD-502), a ''Fletcher''-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee (1845–1923). Construction and service ''Sigsbee'' was laid down on 22 July 1942 by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Kearny, New Jersey; launched on 7 December 1942; sponsored by Mrs. A. O. Fischer; and commissioned on 23 January 1943. 1943 ''Sigsbee'' completed outfitting three weeks later and sailed to Casco Bay, Maine, for 10 days of gunnery and torpedo practice before sailing to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to complete her shakedown. She returned to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York City, for post-shakedown overhaul. Upon completion, the destroyer escorted ''Birmingham'' (CL-62) to Norfolk. On 4 April, she escorted two tankers to Casco Bay and returned. Next was an escort trip with ''Independence'' (CV-22) and ''Guest'' (DD-472) to Trinidad, B.W.I., where the aircraft carrier trained her air group. Upon her re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Sigsbee (DD-502) Underway In The Pacific Ocean On 23 June 1944 (80-G-321648)
USS ''Sigsbee'' (DD-502), a , was a ship of the United States Navy named for Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee (1845–1923). Construction and service ''Sigsbee'' was laid down on 22 July 1942 by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Kearny, New Jersey; launched on 7 December 1942; sponsored by Mrs. A. O. Fischer; and commissioned on 23 January 1943. 1943 ''Sigsbee'' completed outfitting three weeks later and sailed to Casco Bay, Maine, for 10 days of gunnery and torpedo practice before sailing to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to complete her shakedown. She returned to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York City, for post-shakedown overhaul. Upon completion, the destroyer escorted ''Birmingham'' (CL-62) to Norfolk. On 4 April, she escorted two tankers to Casco Bay and returned. Next was an escort trip with ''Independence'' (CV-22) and ''Guest'' (DD-472) to Trinidad, B.W.I., where the aircraft carrier trained her air group. Upon her return to Norfolk, ''Sigsbee'' refueled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Daly (DD-519)
Daly or DALY may refer to: Places Australia * County of Daly, a cadastral division in South Australia * Daly River, Northern Territory, a locality * Electoral division of Daly, an electorate in the Northern Territory * Daly, Northern Territory, a locality Elsewhere * Daly (lunar crater), a crater on the Moon * Daly (Martian crater), a crater on Mars * Daly, Russia, a village (''selo'') in the Sakha Republic, Russia * Daly City, California, United States * Rural Municipality of Daly, Manitoba, Canada * Daly College, India * Daly Range, Greenland People Given name * Daly Cherry-Evans (born 1989), Australian Rugby League player * Daly Santana (born 1995), Puerto Rican indoor volleyball player Surname * Daly (surname) Other uses * Daly detector, a type of mass spectrometry detector * Daly languages, group of Australian aboriginal languages * Disability-adjusted life year (DALY), a measure of burden of disease * USS ''Daly'' (DD-519), a ''Fletcher''-class destroyer See also * Dail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Harrison (DD-573)
USS ''Harrison'' (DD-573) was a of the United States Navy. She was second Navy ship of that name. Namesake Napoleon Bonaparte Harrison was born on 19 February 1823 in Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia. He was appointed a midshipman on 26 February 1838 and received promotion to passed midshipman on 20 May 1844. Serving in California during the Mexican–American War on , he was a volunteer in the expedition to rescue General Philip Kearny's command, and spent five days en route from San Francisco to Monterey in a small boat carrying despatches. He was promoted to master on 2 April 1852 and then to Lieutenant on 6 January 1853. From 1857 to 1859, he served as a division officer aboard during the sloop-of-war's tour as flagship of the U.S. Navy's Africa Squadron. In April 1862, Harrison commanded the gunboat at the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, leading the battle line past the forts and up the Mississippi River to New Orleans. He was promoted to Commander on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Lexington (CV-16)
USS ''Lexington'' (CV/CVA/CVS/CVT/AVT-16), nicknamed "''The Blue Ghost''", is an built during World War II for the United States Navy. Originally intended to be named ''Cabot'', the new aircraft carrier was renamed while under construction to commemorate the recently-lost , becoming the sixth U.S. Navy ship to bear the name in honor of the Battle of Lexington. Since 1992, the ship has been docked in Corpus Christi, Texas, where she operates as a museum. Construction and commissioning The ship was laid down as ''Cabot'' on 15 July 1941 by Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. In May 1942, , which had been built in the same shipyard two decades earlier, was sunk at the Battle of the Coral Sea. In June, workers at the shipyard submitted a request to Navy Secretary Frank Knox to change the name of a carrier currently under construction there to ''Lexington''. Knox agreed to the proposal and ''Cabot'' was renamed ''Lexington'' on 16 June 1942, the fifth U.S. Navy ship to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Earle (DD-635)
USS ''Earle'' (DD-635/DMS-42), a , is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Admiral Ralph Earle. ''Earle'' was launched on 10 December 1941 by Boston Navy Yard; sponsored by Mrs. John F. Hines, Jr., daughter of Rear Admiral Earle; and commissioned on 1 September 1942. Service history Between 12 December 1942 and 28 April 1943, ''Earle'' escorted three convoys carrying essential men and supplies to Casablanca. On her first voyage, she made two night attacks on surfaced submarines. Sailing from Norfolk on 8 June she arrived at Oran on 22 June to prepare for the invasion of Sicily, and screened the transport area off Scoglitti on 10 July. Two days later she carried on an inspection of the beach area, and then served on escort duty between north Africa ports and Sicily until 11 August when she got underway for New York, arriving the 22nd. From 6 December 1943 to 1 May 1944, ''Earle'' escorted convoys between Boston and New York and the United Kingd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air Group
A group is a military unit or a military formation that is most often associated with military aviation. Air and aviation groups The terms group and wing differ significantly from one country to another, as well as between different branches of a national defence force. Air groups vary considerably in size and status, but generally take two forms: * A unit of two to four squadrons, commanded by a lieutenant colonel, colonel, commander, naval captain or an equivalent rank. The United States Air Force (USAF), ''groupes'' of the French ''Armée de l'air'', ''gruppen'' of the German ''Luftwaffe'', United States Marine Corps Aviation, British Fleet Air Arm and some other naval air services usually follow this pattern. * A larger formation, often comprising more than 10 squadrons, commanded by a major general, brigadier general, commodore, rear admiral, air commodore or air vice-marshal. The air forces of many Commonwealth countries, such as the British Royal Air Force (RAF), foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aircraft Carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Typically, it is the capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a naval force to project air power worldwide without depending on local bases for staging aircraft operations. Carriers have evolved since their inception in the early twentieth century from wooden vessels used to deploy balloons to nuclear-powered warships that carry numerous fighters, strike aircraft, helicopters, and other types of aircraft. While heavier aircraft such as fixed-wing gunships and bombers have been launched from aircraft carriers, these aircraft have not successfully landed on a carrier. By its diplomatic and tactical power, its mobility, its autonomy and the variety of its means, the aircraft carrier is often the centerpiece of modern combat fleets. Tactically or even strategically, it replaced the battleship in the ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British West Indies
The British West Indies (BWI) were colonized British territories in the West Indies: Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, British Guiana (now Guyana) and Trinidad and Tobago. Other territories include Bermuda, and the former British Honduras (now Belize). The colonies were also at the center of the transatlantic slave trade, around 2.3 million slaves were brought to the British Caribbean. Before the decolonisation period in the later 1950s and 1960s the term was used to include all British colonies in the region as part of the British Empire. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmost island in the West Indies. With an area of , it is also the List of Caribbean islands by area, fifth largest in the West Indies. Name The original name for the island in the Arawak language, Arawaks' language was which meant "Land of the Hummingbird". Christopher Columbus renamed it ('The Island of the Holy Trinity, Trinity'), fulfilling a vow he had made before setting out on his third voyage. This has since been shortened to ''Trinidad''. History Island Caribs, Caribs and Arawaks lived in Trinidad long before Christopher Columbus encountered the islands on his third voyage on 31 July 1498. The island remained Spanish until 1797, but it was largely settled by French colonists from the French Caribbean, especially Martinique.Besson, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Guest (DD-472)
USS ''Guest'' (DD-472), a ''Fletcher''-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Commodore John Guest (1822–1879). ''Guest'' was launched 20 February 1942 by the Boston Naval Shipyard; sponsored by Mrs. Ann Guest Walsh, granddaughter of Com. Guest; commissioned 15 December 1942, Commander Henry Crommelin in command. ''Guest'' decommissioned in 1946 and was transferred on loan to the Brazilian Navy in 1959, where she served as ''Pará'' (D27). She was stricken in 1979 and was sunk as a target ship in 1983. 1943 After shakedown training at Guantanamo Bay, ''Guest'' made a cruise to Trinidad with aircraft carrier ''Independence'' (CVL-22). This was followed by a convoy escort voyage from New York to Casablanca and return to Boston (28 April – 31 May 1943). She departed Boston 20 July for brief training in Hawaiian waters, then joined the 3rd Fleet 28 August at Efate, New Hebrides Islands. After an offensive sweep to the Santa Cruz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Independence (CVL-22)
USS ''Independence'' (CVL-22) (also CV-22) was a United States Navy light aircraft carrier. The lead ship of her class, she served during World War II. Converted from the hull of a Cleveland-class light cruiser, she was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation and commissioned in January 1943. She took part in the attacks on Rabaul and Tarawa before being torpedoed by Japanese aircraft, necessitating repairs in San Francisco from January to July 1944. After repairs, she launched many strikes against targets in Luzon and Okinawa. ''Independence'' was part of the carrier group that sank the remnants of the Japanese Mobile Fleet in the Battle of Leyte Gulf and several other Japanese ships in the Surigao Strait. Until the surrender of Japan, she was assigned to strike duties against targets in the Philippines and Japan. She finished her operational duty off the coast of Japan supporting occupation forces until being assigned to return American veterans back to the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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