Ship named after your town?

[Archae]

I just learned this today.

USS Sheboygan, PF-57
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A city in Wisconsin.
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Builder: Globe Shipbuilding Co., Superior, WI

Length: 303' 11"

Beam: 37' 6"

Draft: 12' 8" fl

Displacement: 2,230 tons

Propulsion: 2-shaft VTE, 3 boilers

Range: 9,500 nm at 12 knots

Top speed: 20 knots

Complement: 190

Armament: 3 x 3"/50; 4 x 40mm (2x2); 9 x 20mm; 1 x Hedgehog, 8 x depth charge projectors; 2 x depth charge racks. For those frigates fitted out for weather patrol duty, the after 3-inch gun was removed and a weather balloon hanger was added aft.


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HISTORY:

Sheboygan (PF-57), originally classified PG-165, was reclassified PF-57 on 15 April 1943 and was laid down on 17 April 1943 under Maritime Commission contract by the Globe Shipbuilding Co., Superior, WI. She was sponsored by Mrs. Willard M. Sonnenburg. She reached New Orleans on 19 May 1944 via the Illinois Waterway and the Mississippi River, and was placed in reduced commission at New Orleans on 26 May 1944 under the command of LCDR A. J. Carpenter, USCG, in command.

http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBCUTTERS/PF57_Sheboygan.html

[LiberalTechie1337]

1. USS Indianapolis

pretty famous actually. It was attacked by the Japanesse during WW2 and sank.

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq30-1.htm

[BiggJawn]

3. I knew a survivor of the Indianapolis.

Retired fireman, active in the survivor's and memorial organizations.

[amber dog democrat]

5. I knew someone from the USS PUEBLO

when she was captured by the North Koreans, ( Signalman ) and someone from the FRANK EVANS when it collided with the MELBOURNE. Neither were as bad as the INDIANAPOLIS. The Navy handled that one very badly.

[BiggJawn]

9. Hard to believe nobody "missed" a heavy cruiser, is it?

Over-due and nobody caught it. Might have gotten the SAR ops going a day or two earlier.

Then there was the blow job where they hung the Captain out to dry, even going so far to cover higher-up asses as to have Hashimoto testify at the Court Martial.

[amber dog democrat]

16. The Navy is funny that way.

Remember when the BB IOWA had its turret explosion and the investigation was launched to frame one of the kids killed in the incident?
They ware trying to save their big battleships, but to what ends ?

Also Captain Lloyd Bucher was courtmartiaed after his crew got back from Korea.

And for Captain McVeigh of the INDIANAPOLIS, bringing up charges for negligence, fairure to maintain watertight integrity, ( condition zebra/ ) and not zig zagging -
this was shameful. Captain Hashimoto even said at the trial that it would have not made a difference if the CA was taking evasive action or not.

This is politics.

[BiggJawn]

19. Oh, yeah.....The "Iowa"....

Blew up the turret in a homosexual love triangle, wasn't that the Navy's "findings"?

Bucher's gone, McVeigh took his own life, and the Navy keeps sailing along.

[amber dog democrat]

20. I still can not believe the Admirals went with that one re: IOWA

Where failures occur, the blame tends to be shifted elsewhere.
So.... we blame some non com in hope that the systemic problems that created the situation don't get further attention.

Port Chicago, the explosion of 2 muitions ships

and the loss of the THESHER.. all of these events happend in part due to things beyond the operational parameters.

Anchors aweigh....

[BiggJawn]

22. And the "Scorpion"...

with it's defective torpedo batteries.

And Admiral "U-Boats are TOYS" King, and Admiral "There's not a THING wrong with those exploders" Christie....

Isn't that what they call "Hide-bound"?

[amber dog democrat]

23. I read about that in a book about submarine espianage

Its believable. This is what happens in bureacuracys. And my guess is it will happen again. Too bad about SCORPION.

Did you read about the Forrestall ? Something similar happened there - but it just cost the captain his command.

[amber dog democrat]

2. USS AUSTIN ( LPD-4 )

and DE 15 ( 1942 )

as well as the AUSTIN, flagship of the Texas Navy. ( 1836 )

[TroubleMan]

4. Hmmm.....can't find the USS West Palm Beach

nt.

[pagerbear]

6. Won't even try for the USS Monroe, NC

[LiberalTechie1337]

7. You live in Palm Beach

Keep an eye on those voting machines for us. I don't want four more years of hell, as the the wonderful THK has so aptly described it

[MrScorpio]

8. USS Detroit

http://navysite.de/ships/aoe4.htm

[UTUSN]

11. Really, MrScorpio-------Are You a Shipmate???????

[MrScorpio]

13. Detroit's my hometown

Been in the USAF for 21 years

[UTUSN]

14. AIR Force??? Well, Planes *Are* Called "Ships"

But thanks for Friday night's bar AND for the Air Force lounge in Sasebo Japan in 1967.

[MrScorpio]

15. Never been to that one

Loved the bartending too.

I might do it again

[UTUSN]

10. My (1st) Ship Was Named after a County

Actually, my 2nd ship WAS named after a city--------Seattle-----

What brought THIS up? Ehhhh? And how PRESCIENT...

[roguevalley]

12. If there is one for Soldotna (Soldier in Russian) then its in the Russian

Navy. :)

[Kellanved]

17. FGS Berlin

Builder: FSG Flensburg
Class: Berlin Class Combat Support Ship

Length: 174 m
Beam: 24,0 m
Draft: 7.6 m

Displacement: 18.637 t

Propulsion: 2 x 5340kW

Top speed: 19.5 knots

Complement: 229

[Bridget Burke]

18. USS Houston CA-30 "The Galloping Ghost of the Java Coast"

Launched, Newport News, September 7, 1929; sponsored by Miss Elizabeth Holcombe, daughter of the mayor of Houston. Sunk March 1, 1942 in the Sunda Strait; survivors spent the rest of the war in Japanese prison camps. (Above photo 2/17/42.)

There's quite a story: www.usshouston.org/index.htm

[Screaming Lord Byron]

21. HMCS Calgary - A frigate of the Canadian Navy.