Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Whetstone (LSD-27) was a Casa Grande-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was the named in honor of Whetstone Point, the site of Fort McHenry, which defended Baltimore, Maryland from British assault during the War of 1812. The defence of Fort McHenry inspired the national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner". Whetstone was laid down on 7 April 1945 at the Boston Navy Yard; launched on 18 July 1945, sponsored by Mrs. Worthington S. Bitler, the wife of Captain W. S. Bitler on duty at the Boston Navy Yard; and commissioned on 12 February 1946, Commander G. R. Keating in command. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. USS William R. Rush (DD/DDR-714) was a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the Korean War. She was named for William R. Rush. William R. Rush was laid down on 15 October 1944 at Newark, New Jersey, by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation; launched on 8 July 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Dorothy Flagg Biddle, a cousin of Captain Rush; and commissioned on 21 September 1945, Commander Theodore E. Vogeley in command. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. USS Wilbert A. Edwards (SP-315), sometimes called USS W. A. Edwards, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919. Wilbert A. Edwards was built as a wooden-hulled commercial steam fishing vessel of the same name in 1911 by M. M. Davis at Solomons Island, Maryland, for the W. A. Edwards Corporation. The U.S. Navy purchased her from the W. A. Edwards Corporation in 1917 for World War I service as a patrol vessel. She was commissioned as USS Wilbert A. Edwards (SP-315) on 10 August 1917 at the Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia, with Lieutenant D. C. Kindell, USNRF, in command....
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Wahoo (SS-238) was a Gato-class submarine, the first United States Navy ship to be named for the wahoo, a dark blue food fish of Florida and the West Indies. Her keel was laid down 28 June 1941 at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California. She was launched on 14 February 1942 (sponsored by Mrs. William C. Barker, Jr.), and commissioned on 15 May 1942 with Lieutenant Commander (Lt. Cmdr.) Marvin G. "Pinky" Kennedy (Class of 1929) in command. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS W. F. Bartlett was a schooner acquired by the United States Navy in 1861. W. L. Bartlett was a wooden-hulled Chesapeake Bay schooner acquired by the U.S. Navy on 13 August 1861 at Baltimore, Maryland. The Navy planned to use W. L. Bartlett and 21 other similar craft as blockships at entrances to inlets leading to the North Carolina sounds. The project — the U.S. Navy's first "stone fleet" venture -— ultimately failed. No record of W. L. Bartlett's ultimate fate has been found. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1330-5403-5
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS War Bug (SP-1795) was an armed motorboat in commission in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1918. War Bug was built as the wooden-hulled motorboat Herreshoff 320 at Bristol, Rhode Island, in 1917 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company for a private owner, and probably was designed with possible naval service in mind. The U.S. Navy purchased Herreshoff 320 from Felix Warburg of New York City on 6 November 1917 for use as a patrol vessel in World War I. Armed and designated SP-1795, she was commissioned as USS War Bug on 17 November 1917. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Wallace L. Lind (DD-703), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, was named for Captain Wallace L. Lind (1887–1940), who was awarded the Navy Cross during World War I. Wallace L. Lind was laid down on 14 February 1944 by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Kearny, New Jersey; launched on 14 June 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Wallace L. Lind, widow of Captain Lind; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 8 September 1944, with Commander G. DeMetropolis in command. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1330-6022-7
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Although not officially counted among the ten U.S. Navy ships named Wasp because she was never entered into the Naval Vessel Register, a steel-hulled motorboat named USS Wasp (SP-1159) performed patrol duties under lease to the U.S. Navy in 1917. Wasp was built in 1910 at the Superior Shipbuilding Company and was owned by W. S. Pattison of Duluth, Minnesota, in 1917, when the U.S. Navy inspected the ship, in the 9th Naval District, for possible service. Wasp was acquired by the Navy on a free-lease basis on 29 June 1917 and was assigned the classification SP-1159 but was never listed in the Naval Vessel Register. She was used as a patrol craft by the 9th Naval District -- at the time a part of...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. USS Woolsey (DD-437), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the 2nd ship to be named Woolsey in the United States Navy. It is the first to be named for both Commodore Melancthon Brooks Woolsey and his father Commodore Melancthon Taylor Woolsey. Woolsey was laid down on 9 October 1939 at Bath, Maine by the Bath Iron Works, launched on 12 February 1941, sponsored by Mrs. Irving Spencer, and commissioned on 7 May 1941 with Lieutenant Commander William H. Von Dreele in command. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The second USS Wathena (YTB-825) was a United States Navy large harbor tug placed in service in 1973 and stricken in 1997. Wathena was laid down on 4 April 1973 by Marinette Marine Corporation at Marinette, Wisconsin. She was launched on 6 September 1973 and delivered to the U.S. Navy on 16 October 1973. Placed in service soon thereafter at Norfolk, Virginia, in the 5th Naval District, Wathena provided assistance and towing services there until probably 1997. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS West Apaum (ID-3221) was a cargo ship in the United States Navy during World War I. She had been built as SS West Apaum for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) as part of the West boats, a series of steel-hulled cargo ships built on the West Coast of the United States. West Apaum sailed on three voyages for the U.S. Navy, two after the Armistice, before she was decommissioned in July 1919. Though little is available regarding West Apaum's civilian career, it is known that she was sailing on a New York – Rotterdam route in early 1927. By early 1929, West Apaum had been laid up by the USSB, which abandoned her in 1933. The cargo ship was scrapped in the second quarter of that same year....
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The second USS Willoughby (AGP-9) was a motor torpedo boat tender that served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. Willoughby was laid down as an Barnegat-class small seaplane tender designated AVP-57 on 15 March 1943 at Houghton, Washington, by Lake Washington Shipyards. She was reclassified as a motor torpedo boat tender and redesignated AGP-9 on 11 May 1943. Launched on 21 August 1943, sponsored by Mrs. D. R. Lee, she was commissioned on 18 June 1944 with Lieutenant Commander A. J. Church in command. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Wedderburn (DD-684), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for lieutenant (j.g.) Charles F. Wedderburn, a destroyerman who was killed during World War I. Wedderburn (DD-684) was laid down on 10 January 1943 at San Francisco by the Bethlehem Steel Co.; launched on 1 August 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Gertrude F. Wedderburn; and commissioned on 9 March 1944, Commander John L. Wilfong in command. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1330-7251-0
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The second USS Winooski (AO-38) was a Kennebec-class oiler in the United States Navy. Winooski was laid down as Calusa on 23 April 1941 at Sparrows Point, Maryland, by the Bethlehem Steel Company under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 144); launched on 12 November 1941; sponsored by Mrs. Laurence B. Levi; taken over by the Navy on 5 January 1942. She was renamed Winooski (AO-38) on 9 January 1942; and commissioned at Baltimore, Maryland, on 27 January 1942, Commander Walter C. Ansel in command. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Westmoreland (APA-104) was a Bayfield-class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II. Westmoreland was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 872) on 8 December 1943 at Pascagoula, Mississippi, by Ingalls Shipbuilding, launched on 28 April 1944, and placed in reduced commission for ferrying purposes, on 12 July 1944. Shifted to Todd Shipyards of Hoboken, New Jersey, for conversion to an attack transport, the ship was decommissioned on 22 July for the duration of the yard period. Once the task of fitting the ship out as an attack transport was completed, Westmoreland was placed in commission on 18 January 1945, Capt. James M. Hicks in command....
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The USS Willamette (AO-180) was the fourth ship in the Cimarron-class of fleet replenishment oilers for the United States Navy in service from 1981 to 1999. The contract for the Willamette was awarded on 11 April 1978 to Avondale Shipyards Inc in New Orleans. On 18 July 1981, the ship was launched in a unique sideways fashion into the Mississippi River at Avondale Shipyards, Louisiana. Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr., USN, Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces, Europe, was the principal speaker at the ceremony and his wife, Shirley Grennell Crowe, was the ship's sponsor. After completion, USS Willamette (AO-180) was...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Wahoo (SS-565), a Tang-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the wahoo, a dark blue food fish of Florida and the West Indies. The contract to build her was awarded to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, and her keel was laid down on 24 October 1949. She was launched on 16 October 1951 sponsored by Mrs. Harry W. Hill, and commissioned on Memorial Day, 30 May 1952 with Commander Eugene P. Wilkinson in command. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. USS William H. Brown (1862) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a dispatch and supply boat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. On 30 September 1862, William H. Brown, a side-wheel steamer, was transferred to the Navy by the U.S. War Department; and she served as a transport and dispatch vessel for the Mississippi Squadron for the duration of the Civil War. The ship carried supplies and messages between the squadron's base at Cairo, Illinois, and its ships at various locations on the Mississippi River and its...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Walworth County (LST-1164), previously USS LST-1164, was a United States Navy landing ship tank (LST) in commission from 1953 to 1971, and which then saw non-commissioned Military Sealift Command service as USNS Walworth County (T-LST-1164) from 1972 to 1973. Walworth County was laid down as USS LST-1164 on 22 September 1952 at Pascagoula, Mississippi by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation. She was launched on 15 May 1953, sponsored by Mrs. John A. Furr, and commissioned on 26 October 1953, Lieutenant F. Kay in command. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. USS Whitewood (YN-84), a wooden-hulled Ailanthus-class net laying ship of the United States Navy was laid down on 24 October 1942 at Rockland, Maine, by the Snow Shipyard, Inc.; named Whitewood on 5 July 1943; re-classified a net laying ship, AN-63, on 1 January 1944; launched on 21 April 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Eben Kenney; and commissioned on 17 July 1944, Lt. John I. Beam, USNR, in command. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Warrington (DD-843) was a Gearing-class destroyer destroyer that served the U.S. Navy from the end of World War II to the Vietnam Conflict, when she was damaged by two underwater explosions, causing her to be listed as “beyond repair” and excessed to the Navy of the Republic of China. The third U.S. Navy ship to be so named, Warrington (DD-843) was laid down on 14 May 1945 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works Corporation; launched on 27 September 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Katherine Chubb Sheehan; and commissioned at the Boston Naval Shipyard on 20 December 1945, Comdr. Don W. Wulzen (later Rear Admiral) in command. Данное издание не является...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Wateree (ATA-174), the third ship named USS Wateree, was a Sotoyomo-class auxiliary fleet tug in the service of the United States Navy during World War II. She later served with the Military Sea Transportation Service and the Peruvian Navy. The ship was laid down on 5 October 1943 at Orange, Texas by the Levingston Shipbuilding Co. as the unnamed rescue tug ATR-101. She was launched on 18 November 1943, redesignated as auxiliary ocean tug ATA-174, and commissioned on 20 July 1944, Lt. A. J. Vetro in command. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. USS Wolverine (IX-64) was a freshwater aircraft carrier of the United States Navy during World War II. She had been converted from a paddlewheeler coal-burning steamer to be used for advanced training for naval aviators in carrier take-offs and landings. Wolverine - a side-wheel excursion steamer built in 1913 - was originally named Seeandbee, a name based upon her owners' company name, the Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Co. She was constructed by the American Ship Building Company of Wyandotte, Michigan. The Navy acquired the sidewheeler on 12 March 1942 and designated her an unclassified miscellaneous...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS West Hobomac (ID-3335) was a steel-hulled cargo ship which saw service with the U.S. Navy as an auxiliary during World War I, and which later operated under the British flag during World War II before being lost to enemy action. Commissioned into the Navy just three months before the end of World War I, West Hobomac completed three voyages during the war, and made several more on the Navy's behalf in the immediate postwar period prior to decommission in 1919. Between the wars, the ship operated as the merchant vessel SS West Hobomac. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The second USS William C. Lawe (DE-373) was a proposed United States Navy John C. Butler-class destroyer escort that was never built. William C. Lawe was scheduled to be built at Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas, during World War II. However, her construction was cancelled on 6 June 1944. The name William C. Lawe was reassigned to destroyer USS William C. Lawe (DD-763). Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1331-0113-5
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