Tuesday, 1 January 1946 Moored to the BRINKLEY BASS on our starboard side, The USS KEARNY on our port does ride. At Pier Dog Six Charleston Navy Yard, The O.D. does think he is quite a bard. Fresh water and salt, electricity and steam, Are services given this Navy team. Com. Six Nav. Dist. is [Read more…]
The Gearing class Destroyer in a FRAM configuration allows for various usage of the ship to benefit and generate revenue to a museum. As can be seen by the photos taken aboard our sister ship, USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr DD 850, the sky is the limit for the educational and tourism benefit that these ships [Read more…]
John Hanscom 6 photos and narrative “This was a great deployment. The seas were so bad that upon arrival seven of the eight destroyers in DESDIV 1 went into the Yokosuka dry-docks for hull cracks. These photos were all taken during the Orleck WESPAC tour departing San Diego on 14 Jan. and returning 16 [Read more…]
I am not certain how many of you know or know of Richard (Rich) Angelini. First of all, he is a young man who is the nephew of USS ORLECK sailor Gary Angelini (October 1972-March 73). Rich is also a Trustee on the Board of Directors of Battleship Cove in Fall River, MA (where [Read more…]
USS ORLECK saves an ROK Army Battalion The following is a copy of an article in the July 1951 issue of All Hands Magazine: DESTROYER’S ACCURATE FIRE SAVES ROK ARMY BATTALION, USS Orleck (DD-886) has been credited with the saving of a Republic of Korea army battalion during fighting in Korea. Communist troops had surrounded [Read more…]
U.S.S. RAVEN War Diary and Log Book of the U.S.S. WAINRIGHT (419), Destroyers Rate, Commanded by R.H. Gibbs, Lieutenant Commander, U.S. NAVY, Division eight Squadron, Squadron, Atlantic Fleet, Commencing December 1, 1942 at Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York and ending December 31, 1942 at Sea. (This printing only includes December 31, 1942. CONFIDENTIAL DECLASSIFIED [Read more…]
We can forgive but we should never forget!