The first two raids were driven off by the combat air patrol, in tandem with KIDD and her division mates: BLACK (DD-666), BULLARD, and CHAUNCEY (DD-667). While this rarely happened, such destroyer-vs-submarine duels did take place on one or two real-life occasions. "It was a shallow charge, and as that thing exploded, the ship quivered, really quivered," Sasso said. The CO, XO, Officer of the Deck (OOD), Junior Officer of the Deck (JOOD) and appropriate enlisted personnel would proceed to the bridge. Logistically, moving approximately 40 ships as a cohesive unit was anything but easy. Navy ships never use this method any more, as sufficient pier space is provided in all of the navys home ports and all necessary services are provided from shore. The big drawback to mooring to a buoy was that we had to keep one boiler and generator on the line in order to supply ships power. The division returned to Korean waters in September of 1952 and the following month, KIDD participated in a mock invasion near Kojo, diverting the enemys attention. 7. She was placed in the Philadelphia Shipyard to await her final fate, one that befell so many of her sister ships: the cutting torch. The Fletcher-class destroyer, the dominant destroyer of WW II, was named for him. She serves as a reminder of all those who have gone before us. As well as other tasks, most of the ships served on weather station patrols, monitoring conditions in specific areas of the Atlantic. Though the book's story is fictional, it was heavily researched and takes place at the midpoint of World War II during the Battle of the Atlantic in the winter of 1942. The winter of 1942-43 would be the Battle of the Atlantic's most bitterly fought season. Normally the crew stood duty on one day out of every three. Tickets for NAO TRINIDAD are available to purchase in person for $25ea. Beginning in December 1943, all other DesRon 51 ships began making their way to the Pacific, some in time for the Marshall Islands operation, continuing in various combinations through the Marianas operation, where Haraden was damaged in a bomb attack, and Palau. She whispers stories of courage, bravery, and sacrifice. She then provided escort for new carriers during their shakedown cruises from Norfolk to Trinidad. The sailor suffered a minor abrasion from a fleck of debris. While the U-boats did occasionally eavesdrop after stumbling upon the transmitting frequency of the escort ships, as far as we know, they were never able to transmit on that frequency, nor were they able to hack into and broadcast over the convoy's inter-ship communication system. The night was overcast with the seas running six to eight feet as the Campbell went to general quarters. The peacetime manning was 14 officers and 236 enlisted men. The pre-war classes of destroyer had been constrained by the London Naval Treaty of 1930 and by the country's reluctance to invest in a stronger Navy, but they did advance destroyer design in a number of ways. In 1975, KIDD was deemed unfit for further service and was stricken from the naval list of vessels. She rests in a unique docking system designed for the near forty foot rise and fall of the river each season. Morale among the crew soared. In those days, the Navy had been heavily influenced by carrier task group operations during the war and the experiences with the Kamikazes during the Battle of Okinawa. During that same period, Germany lost 783 of its 1,100 U-boats. In 1945, the seven ships remaining in the war zone participated in the Iwo Jima operation. For six days the ships battled heavy seas. Less than six weeks after the transfer, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the United States formally entered World War II. On 5 September, as Bibb and Campbell raced toward their rendezvous, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had declared a Neutrality Zone along the East Coast of the United States. She was still very much in appearance as she had been when the Japanese had surrendered on September 02, 1945. In 1941, the US Navy began building a fleet of large destroyers, its first design to rival the Japanese "special type" destroyers that had first entered service more than a decade before. USS The Sullivans served with . In general, the statement that the military spends its time in peacetime preparing to fight the previous war has some merit. The second was CASSIN YOUNG. Being 376 feet, 6 inches, in length meant that they could carry five five-inch dual-purpose guns, ten torpedoes, depth charges and antiaircraft guns. Of the four preserved Fletcher-class destroyers, she is the only destroyer remaining in her World War II appearance and is now on exhibit in her wartime camouflage paint, Measure 22.Along with her signal flags, the Jolly Roger flies high from her mast and the image of the pirate looks out from her forward stack, greeting passers-by both on shore and aboard visiting riverboats. Early that summer, President Roosevelt agreed to protect Iceland, and U.S. Marines replaced a British occupying force on the island. They did not appear until the 1970s. Anne Randle was the first member of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) to be assigned to the Office of Shipbuilding in New York City. In conducting our Greyhound fact check, we discovered that up to 80,000 Allied sailors, airmen, and merchant seamen were killed during the six-year-long Battle of the Atlantic, which spanned almost the entirety of WWII. She was present for the occupation of Saipan in June of 1944 and assisted in the bombardment of Guam in July and August. A member of the Duane's crew, Victor Bogard, remembered that "Whenever a shell exploded on the German submarine, many crew members would shout and cheer. Slow but reliable, the Coast Guard's Secretary-class cutters were the backbone of the United States' North Atlantic escort force during World War II. . Charles A. Bellis coming aboard as commanding officer. By early 1942, U-boats had begun to wreak havoc directly off the east coast of North and South America, easily picking off merchant ships that were poorly defended. In September of that year, KIDD participated in a top secret mission which carried her to a midnight rendezvous somewhere in the Yellow Sea. She then joined NEW JERSEY (BB-62) on bombardment duty, before being assigned to patrol the Formosa Strait. So on the crews behalf, Mrs. Kidd obtained official permission from the powers-that-be in the Navy for them to paint the pirate on the stack and fly the Jolly Roger. May her victories be triumphant and conclusive!. The tenders could then supply us with power, thereby allowing us to shut down and go Cold Iron. After seven minutes, the ships ceased firing and a Coast Guard boarding party from the Spencer headed for the smoking U-boat. The latter part of 1958 saw her engaged in a similar role patrolling the straits between Formosa (Taiwan) and mainland China while international tempers flared over the Chinese bombardment of the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Construction (top) and disposition following World War II (bottom). This areaknown as the Devil's Gorge, the Black Hole, or Torpedo Junctionwas a prime hunting ground for U-boats. Germany knew that stopping the supply line would essentially give them victory in Britain and the rest of Europe, as well as the Soviet Union, thus ending the war. 2. The Fletcher class was a class of destroyers built by the United States during World War II. With the active sonar switch on, Sasso again picked up the U-boat: "It was beautiful, a metallic sound, real clear." 4. Built at Federal Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Company of Kearny, New Jersey, KIDD was one of four destroyers [USS BULLARD (DD-660), USS THORN (DD-647), and USS TURNER (DD-648)] launched on February 28, 1943 in a record-breaking fourteen minutes. NHF has decommissioned and is no longer accepting new members or donations. Allied long-range shore-based aircraft extended their patrols as far as 600 miles, but there remained a significant gap in their coverage. Mrs. Inez Kidd, widow of RADM Kidd, served as the ships sponsor, christening her and presenting her crew with a handsome wardroom guest book in which she wrote: May the destiny of the USS KIDD be glorious! Lieutenant Bruns was one of the first killed as the U-boat crew began climbing out of the sub and attempted to abandon ship. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1987). At 0420 the next day, the wrecked and scuttled U-606 disappeared beneath the waves. Eventually, eleven shipyards launched 175 ships over the next 32 monthsthe most numerous class of destroyer completed by any navy. She put in at Inchon to wait out the storm, after which time she proceeded to the island of Koje to join a slow carrier task force traversing Koreas western coast. Rescuing downed pilots, fighting off suicidal attacks, destroying floating mines, and giving early warning to the fleet of approaching enemy aircraft, KIDD participated in a naval siege which would see the greatest losses ever suffered by the United States Navy. My first 11 years in the Navy were spent in Japan. Beginning in the fall of 1939, the large white-hulled cutters were assigned the outer limits of the Neutrality Zone. She was first launched in 1943 and went in and out of commission during the Korean War and the Cold War. Acting as a rescue destroyer (Plane Guard). A sister ship of the Fletcher-class, USS CAPERTON (DD-650), provided the quintuple Mk-14 21-inch torpedo tubes that were missing, as well as a Mk-27 torpedo director, two Mk-63 gun directors, and her boat boom. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. She splashed at least one of the many Japanese aircraft which attacked on 8 January, and during the landings in Lingayen Gulf the next day, patrolled the Gulf. The duties of conning officer were rotated around. But the rules of warfare are: Kill or be killed.". DD 522 : Diary of a destroyer Surels, Ron Books dealing with this subject include: 200,000 Miles Aboard the Destroyer Cotten, Robinson, C. Snelling, 1999 In Greece, the former Charrette, renamed Velos (Arrow), is a popular attraction. One of the shells entered the compartment and crossed just above the chest of the pretended casualty. No, not exactly. But with the advent of suicide tactics by the Japanese, destroyers on escort duty faced an even greater peril than before. The plant has to be started up from the Central Control Station below decks, but once it is ready for operation throttle control can be transferred to the bridge. In need of repairs and shore leave for her crew, KIDD returned to Pearl Harbor in August of 1944. "The periscope had probably been knocked off," he recalled. Mr. Walling served as a commissioned and a senior petty officer in the Coast Guard and is the author of Bloodstained Sea: The U.S. Coast Guard in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1941-1944 (New York: International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2004). I made six month WESTPAC deployments in 1957 and 1958. There would have been no American soldiers for D-Day, and in turn, no D-Day and no victory.Germany used squadrons of U-boats known as wolf packs, in addition to various warships, to prowl the Atlantic Ocean and hunt down and attack Allied convoys, which is what they do to the convoy Commander Krause's ships are protecting in the Greyhound movie. Upon reaching Ulithi, another devastating blow to morale was waiting for them. The Alexander Hamilton was one of the first cutters actively engaged in convoy escort duty. Fletcher -class destroyers boasted ten torpedo tubes, depth charge projectors, and five radar-guided 5" dual-purpose guns allowing them to ably combat aircraft, submarines and surface. This is the third in a series of articles by Captain Stewart detailing the technical specifications, manning, and operations of the U.S. Navys Fletcher class destroyers. David W. Taylor returned to join them in time for Okinawa, after which she and John D. Henley closed out the war with the Third Fleet off Japan while the other surviving ships of the squadron returned home. On the night of the 17th, the Ingham's sonar was turned off and her sonarman, Mike Sasso, was listening for screw noise with the hydrophones. The U.S. Navy was to patrol this expanse to report on belligerent activity and prevent British, French, and German warships from attacking merchant ships within the zone's boundaries. . The American ships then headed to Londonderry, Northern Ireland, for supplies, training, and, hopefully, liberty. February 27, 2023 By restaurants on the water in st clair shores By restaurants on the water in st clair shores Full right rudder was ordered, and the cutter closed to ram the submarine. The combat air patrol downed the remaining Japanese aircraft. did fletcher class destroyers serve in the atlantic? The actual hookup was made by detaching one of the anchor chains from its anchor and passing it down to the mooring crew on the buoy, who would then connect it to a shackle. The Pirate of the Pacific began a series of WESTPAC cruises which lasted from 1954 to 1959. Jeffery was reassigned, with Cdr. Essentially what this meant was for the first team to take their assigned stations for getting underway. Commissioned back into service on March 28 of that year under the command of Cdr. Four B&W three-drum boilers (565 psi @ 850 F), Two sets of General Electric geared turbines (60,000 hp total), five 5"/38-cal. In 1995, what began as a blind letter to several allied navies which had received Fletcher-class ships in the years following 1945 resulted in the donation of twelve Mk-9 depth charges from the Turkish navy. The venerable destroyer had earned twelve battle stars during her career: eight for service in World War II and four for service in Korea. It is set under battle conditions. However, when KIDD arrived at the Brooklyn yards, the official message sent back to the yards in Kearny read: The WAVE delivered The Kidd at 2:30 today.. It is set when a ship is in the harbor. She then provided escort for new carriers during their shakedown cruises from Norfolk to Trinidad. World War II was only days old, but the Coast Guard's "327s" had already answered the call of duty in what would come to be known as the Battle of the Atlantic. Naval Institute is maintaining and preserving the former Naval Historical Foundation website so readers and former NHF members can still access past issues of Pull Together and other content. NHF members are being converted to members of the Naval Institute. Previous. I am a retired Navy Chief. All rights reserved. Following anti-submarine warfare exercises off of Okinawa, KIDD and her division mates provided escourt for BADOENG STRAIT (CVE-116) en route to Yokosuka, Japan. As a torpedoed merchant ship goes down in February 1943, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Spencer searches for the attacking U-boat. Commander Harold S. Berdine, the cutter's commanding officer, ordered a barrage of 11 depth charges set to explode at only 50 to 100 feet. . On April 30, Cdr. Thirty-eight men were killed; fifty-five were wounded. She was placed in the Philadelphia Shipyard to await her final fate, one that befell so many of her sister ships: the cutting torch. A large portion of the movie was shot aboard the USS Kidd (DD-661), a Fletcher-class Navy destroyer named after Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who lost his life on the bridge of the USS Arizona during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. By any standard, that was an impressive display of warship mass production. Reg Ingraham, First Fleet (Cornwall, NY: Bobbs-Merill Company, 1944). Her name was listed as Ens. Fifteen minutes later, however, the radarman reported a contact at only 4,600 yards on a bearing well clear of the convoy. As they neared Reykjavik on 29 January 1942, the Hamilton turned the tow over to a British tug. While in the shipyards, Cdr. To emphasize the importance of the battle, Winston Churchill coined the name "Battle of the Atlantic," intentionally alluding to the Battle of Britain. USS Jenkins (DD-447) was a Fletcher-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy, the second ship named after Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins.Beginning service during World War II, the destroyer saw action in the Pacific theatre. 8. Krause commands a multi-national group of four escort ships tasked with protecting a convoy of merchant ships that are being hunted by German U-boats. The plaque was mounted on KIDDs quarter deck in their memory. In 1941, as U-boat attacks on British and Canadian convoys in the central Atlantic increased, the United States was drawn into a more active role in the conflict. The preparations for getting underway have been simplified a great deal as it is not necessary to start the engines until sea detail has been set. Since 1975 all new destroyer, cruiser, and frigate types have been powered by aircraft derivative gas turbine engines. While off Pierpoint Landing in Long Beach Harbor, KIDD was struck by the 9,000-ton Swedish freighter HAINAN on April 21, 1953. Shortly after the U-boat surfaced, the Campbell's radar found her. The Royal Navy primarily covered the western approaches to England, the U.S. Navy protected the mid-Atlantic from its bases in Newfoundland and Iceland, while the Royal Canadian Navy protected the convoys as they departed or arrived off Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. All USN ships are worthy of their tails of history while securing the waters they sail and for protecting all of freedoms we so take for granted every day. She was dispatched to relieve the destroyer BROWN (DD-546), bombarding targets of opportunity on the eastern coastline of Korea from Nan-Do Island southward below Kansong. With that change came the order to paint the gleaming white cutter hulls regulation Navy haze gray. There wouldn't have been enough men, food, weapons, or resources to make weapons. About once per quarter we would be assigned an availability alongside a Destroyer Tender for routine repairs. She was my first, and my favorite ship. For the Leyte landings in October 1944, all nine ships operated with the Third Fleets Logistic Group. Fully repaired and ready for action in the eminent invasion of Japans home islands, KIDD was en route to Japan via Pearl Harbor just days after the first atomic bomb struck Hiroshima, heralding the end of World War II. There, the earliest ones saw action in the nighttime surface battles in the Solomon Islands, many fought at Leyte and all completed in time for fleet screening and shore bombardment assignments and the notorious anti-kamikaze radar picket duty at Okinawa. The Campbell and Spencer, meanwhile, worked out of Argentia, Newfoundland. During this time, she served as a training ship for Naval Reservists, cruising up and down the East Coast. U.S. Coast Guard Public Information Division, The Coast Guard at War: Transports and Escorts V, Vol. The Fletcher class destroyers had a wartime complement of 329 personnel. Commissioned back into service on March 28 of that year under the command of Cdr. Allan B. Roby, the Silver Star for gallantry. A second 36 searchlight was obtained from a private estate in 1985. The Sullivans played a large role in World War II and the . Two days earlier, while helping escort eight ships from Iceland to a rendezvous with westbound ONS-152, the cutter had dropped a single 600-pound depth charge on a sound contact. The Fletcher class formed the backbone of U.S. destroyer forces in World War II. As the first big ships to appear and because there were so many of them, however, the Fletchers are remembered as the signature US Navy destroyer class of the Pacific war. She serves as a reminder of all those who have gone before us. If we were backing out of a slip you would hear a prolonged blast on the whistle. "The tower was a mass of twisted steel. The freighters bow sliced nearly halfway through the destroyers hull at the deck line, leaving a 15-ft. v-shaped hole that extended three feet below the waterline and flooding the sonar compartment. Under the command of Cdr. Your email address will not be published. The KIDD would become the only vessel in the history of the United States Navy to ever have such leave granted to fly the flag of piracy. There was always a stop at Pearl Harbor on the way to and from the deployment for INCOP and OUTCHOP (Change of Operational Command) briefings at CINCPACFLEET. At this point, the word would be passed Secure the Special Sea and Anchor Detail, Set the Regular Underway Watch. At that time, there was still an uneasy tradition that having a woman aboard a naval ship was to invite bad luck. Enemy planes, spotting smoke from the crippled destroyer, attempted to finish her off. The Chief Engineer would be in the Forward Engine Room and the Main Propulsion Assistant would be in the After Engine Room. U-175 was 65 feet deep when the explosions cracked and twisted her pressure hull. As we parsed out theGreyhound true story from the movie, we learned that Commander Ernest Krause is a fictional character based on Commander George Krause from C. S. Forester's book The Good Shepherd. Of the four preserved Fletcher-class destroyers, she is the only destroyer remaining in her World War II appearance and is now on exhibit in her wartime camouflage paint, Measure 22.. has slowly been restored back to her August 1945 configuration. Deployments were six months in length followed by a six month period in the US, about half of which was spent underway in various fleet exercises off the West Coast. Most COs rarely took the conn themselves but acted more as a teacher and overall safety observer. The search for hard-to-find World War II vintage equipment has gone around the world. 6. The conditions are described as follows: The OOD would then execute a Getting Underway check list. Suddenly, at 2315, Sasso heard the screw beats of a U-boat only 1,200 yards ahead. The edition of TIME magazine that week carried a photo of KIDD, announcing that it had been one hundred years since the Jolly Roger had flown in New York Harbor. The U.S. and Canada needed to maintain the vital flow of supplies and men to Europe in order to keep up the fight. She participated in the bombardments of Roi and Kotje through February of that year, guarded construction of airfields at Emirau from March through April, and then supported the occupation of Aitape and Hollandia in New Guinea in May. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had died on April 12, the same day that KIDD had committed her dead to the sea. Allan B. Roby, the destroyer moved across New York Harbor for delivery to the Brooklyn Naval Shipyards . The 327s were later converted to amphibious-force flagships and served in the Pacific theater. did fletcher class destroyers serve in the atlantic? By February, organization of the ocean escorts had been formalized into American, British, and Canadian groups. Bennett (DD 473) lays stack and chemical smoke in the Shortland Islands, 1944. off Korea in the 1950s and some even off Vietnam in the 60s, she was condemned in 2010 as a derelict and hazard to navigation and scrapped in 20102011. With carrier-based aircraft pounding the Japanese installations on the island, KIDD moved off to investigate a submarine contact miles away from the formation. Transportation was by a combination of ships boats and private water taxis. Allied Warships Destroyers Fletcher class 175 ships The destroyer USS Saufley (DD 465) of the US Navy . While her sonar crews were attempting to verify the contact, lookouts spotted 15 low-flying enemy torpedo bombers which were headed toward the large troopships carrying thousands of Marines who would soon be storming the beaches. The Pirates were one of the first tin cansdestroyersto have their very own ice cream machine, something usually reserved for the larger vessels of the fleet. The Coast Guard, however, maintains that the cutter's attacks two days later destroyed the same U-boat. During this era, no other class of destroyer had more ships built. She provided escort for the carrier task force which launched air raids on Wake Island in October of 1943 and then again, in November, for the carriers ESSEX (CV-9), BUNKER HILL (CV-17), and INDEPENDENCE (CV-22) in strikes against Rabaul and Bougainville. The Coast Guard assigned numerous vessels, including six of the seven Secretary- (or Treasury-) class cuttersthe Bibb, Campbell, Duane (WPG-33), Alexander Hamilton (WPG-34), Ingham (WPG-35), and Spencer (WPG-36)to the force. On March 19, 1945, the carrier USS FRANKLIN (CV-13) suffered a devastating hit which touched off gasoline and ammunition explosions and claimed 724 lives. In an emergency program to expand capacity, some shipyards were upgraded and other new ones were brought on line. Restored to her August, 1945 configuration, KIDD is one of the most authentic and accurate restorations in the Historic Fleet. Several films are told from the point of view of the German U-boat crews. Next we will describe the process for getting underway from alongside another ship or a pier. USS The Sullivans (DD-537) The USS Sullivans was a long-range, large destroyer used for anti-submarine warfare, anti-aircraft warfare, and surface action. 27 2023 . Commissioned into service two months later on April 23, KIDD commenced her shakedown cruise at Casco Bay, Maine. Twenty of the 21 men in those spaces were instantly killed. She was a fine destroyer and served in WWII as a real war ship. Design for the class was not finalized until January 1940, but by the end of that year more than 100 ships had been Half of the year, she rides the currents of the Mississippi; the other half, she sits dry-docked in a cradle where visitors can see her full dimensions. She and the other ships of her squadron were among the first to encounter the Japanese planes which came out to meet the great armada threatening Japans shores. He currently holds the title of Chief Marine Engineer at Marine Design Dynamics. The class was designed in 1939, as a result of dissatisfaction with the earlier destroyer leader types. Meanwhile, medium-size Coast Guard cutters and U.S. Navy destroyers covered waters closer inshore. Introduced in 1942, the 2,100-ton Fletcher -class destroyers formed the core of the US Navy's destroyer force from 1943. At several points in the film, a German U-boat uses Greyhound's transmitting frequency and broadcasts threatening messages over the ship's loudspeakers. The USS KIDD (DD-661) is a Fletcher-class destroyer, the six hundred sixty-first destroyer built by the United States Navy. Each compartment has been treated as a display case into which innumerable artifacts have been collected and arranged just as they would have been when sailors lived and worked on board. This action won her skipper at the time, Cdr. Also at this time, long-awaited American destroyer escorts (DEs) and patrol frigates (PFs) appeared in significant numbers, augmenting or replacing older cutters and destroyers. During his 30 year naval career he held two ship commands and served a total of 8 years on naval material inspection boards, during which he conducted trials and inspections aboard over 200 naval vessels. years the big cutters would play a key role in the United States' efforts to patrol the Atlantic Ocean, escort convoys, and sink U-boats. This would be followed by Now Set Material Condition Yoke Throughout the Ship followed by The Officer of the Deck is Shifting his Watch from the Quarterdeck to the Bridge. Faced with a shortage of escort ships, the Navy requested on 31 October that all Coast Guard cutters be transferred to its control. 9. Bush fulfilled one of his promises to the crew upon taking command at Ulithi: the pirate, which had been ordered painted over in late 44, was restored to the Number One stack. The latter part of 1958 saw her engaged in a similar role patrolling the straits between Formosa (Taiwan) and mainland China while international tempers flared over the Chinese bombardment of the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. The Pirate of the Pacific began a series of WESTPAC cruises which lasted from 1954 to 1959. Introduced in 1942, the 2,100-ton Fletcher-class destroyers formed the core of the US Navys destroyer force from 1943. While the movie finds Tom Hanks' Commander Ernest Krause and the convoy caught up in the Battle of the Atlantic over a five-day period in the latter part of 1942, the battle actually spanned almost the entirety of the war, beginning on September 3, 1939 and ending on May 8, 1945. But suddenly, there was no movement from the boat, and the Ingham passed over her without dropping any charges. Both pilots were recovered and three enemy planes were shot down, with one more kill probable and hits scored on several of the remaining aircraft. Not all of the latter 1950s involved Cold War tensions. USS Fletcher: note the open hatch with Black ZEBRA marking. A 36 searchlight and platform, a Mk-12/22 fire-control radar antenna, four more K-guns, and several smaller items were salvaged from USS TOLMAN (DD-740/DM-28) prior to her disposal by the Navy as a target ship. Completed in June 1942, she arrived at Guadalcanal in October and soon proved herself during a vital time when the US Navy's posture in the Pacific war was changing from defensive to offensive, an auspicious beginning to a 27-year career. The goal was to have two boilers on line, one in each fire room, and have both engines ready for operation with the plant split (2 independent plant configuration) prior to setting what is referred to as the Special Sea Detail. Was stricken from the crippled destroyer, cruiser, and frigate types have been powered by aircraft derivative gas engines... 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