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The Big Gunshop at Washington Navy Yard c1937.
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Lead Ship, Monitor USS Amphitrite pictured at Boston Navy Yard c1899.
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Screw Steamer USS Pensacola pictured at Mare Island Navy Yard c 1898..She was launched at Pensacola Navy Yard on August 15th 1859, and commissioned there on December 5th,1859, for towing to Washington Navy Yard for installation of machinery. She was decommissioned January 31st, 1860, and commissioned in full on September 16th, 1861.She served in the following: Civil War, 1862–1864: Pacific Squadron, 1866–1884: Atlantic and Pacific, 1885–1892: Training and Receiving Ship, 1898–1911....Recommissioned on November 22nd, 1898, Pensacola served as a Training Ship for Naval apprentices until going back into ordinary on May 31st, 1899. She was back in commission July 14th, 1901, subsequently used as Receiving Ship at Yerba Buena Training Station, San Francisco until finally decommissioning on December 6th, 1911, and struck from the Navy Register on December 23rd. She was burned and sunk by the Navy in San Francisco Bay near Hunters Point early in May 1912.
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Lead Ship, O Class Submarine USS O-1 pictured in drydock at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, in November 1918. O-1 was laid down on March 26th 1917 at Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine. She was launched on July 9th 1918, and commissioned on November 5th 1918: Commissioned just before the Armistice with Germany, O-1 operated in the Atlantic coastal waters from Cape Cod to Key West, Florida, after World War I. Reclassified a second-line Submarine on July 25th 1924, and first-line on June 6th 1928, O-1 was converted to an experimental vessel on December 28th 1930, and operated in this capacity out of the Submarine base at New London, Connecticut, until decommissioning on June 11th 1931. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on May 18th 1938 and sold for scrap.
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Lead Ship, Gunboat No 21 USS Asheville pictured under construction on the ways on July 4th 1918 and fitting out on August 1st 1918 at Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina...Asheville, Lieutenant Jacob W. Britt in command, cleared Tjilatjap a little before 1500 on March 1st 1942, bound for Fremantle. In the late afternoon on March 2nd, she was seen by the Australian Corvette HMAS Bendigo, heading for Australia. At 0615, USS Tulsa sighted a ship, and identified her as Asheville, probably the last time the latter was in sight of friendly forces. During the forenoon watch on March 3rd, Asheville radioed 'being attacked,' some 300 nmi (south of Java. The Minesweeper USS Whippoorwill heard the initial distress call and turned toward the reported position some 90 nmi away. When a second report specified that the ship was being attacked by a surface vessel, however, Whippoorwill's captain, Lieutenant Commander Charles R. Ferriter, reasoning correctly that 'any surface vessel that could successfully attack the Asheville would be too much' for his own command, ordered the minesweeper to resume her voyage to Australia...Asheville, presumed lost, was stricken from the Navy list on May 8th 1942. Not until after World War II, however, did the story of her last battle emerge, when a survivor of the Heavy Cruiser Houston, told of meeting, in prison camp, Fireman 1st Class Fred L. Brown. Hampered by engine troubles and sailing alone, Asheville was discovered on March 3rd 1942 by a shipborne scout plane south of Java and overtaken by a Japanese surface force, led by Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondō, consisting of the Destroyers Arashi and Nowaki, and the Heavy Cruiser Maya. As the Cruiser stood by, the two Japanese Destroyers closed and engaged Asheville at close range with their guns. After an intense 30-minute gun battle, the smouldering hulk of Asheville, her forecastle and bridge almost completely shot away, finally sank. Brown, an 18-year-old from Ft. Wayne, Indiana, had been in the gunboat's fire room when the surface force had overtaken the ship. Many men topside were dead by the time Brown arrived topside to abandon ship. After calling to ask if there was an officer among the swimmers, a sailor on board one of the enemy Destroyers threw out a line, which Brown grasped and was hauled on board. Asheville's only known survivor perished in the Japanese Makassar prisoner-of-war camp on March 18th 1945, in the Celebes Islands of the Netherlands East Indies...RIP... Lest We Forget.
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A 14 inch/50 cal Mark IV gun barrel pictured being unloaded from Auxiliary Cargo Ship USS West Hosokie, at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, on March 10th 1919. The gun was part of the Naval Railway Battery in France during the final months of World War I.
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Wilmington Class Gunboat USS Helena pictured c1899.
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Loading an Army Model 1919 16 inch gun barrel on Cargo Ship USS Capella's deck aft for shipment to Pearl Harbor. The Merritt and Chapman derrick Monarch has lifted the gun clear of the Moran Towing and Transportation Co. barge No. 30. Colorado Class Dreadnought USS Maryland is across the pier. The crane between the two ships is probably moving along rails on the pier....New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn on September 26th 1922.
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Remedial work being carried out on the wooden Torpedo Boat USS Stiletto at Brooklyn Navy Yard c1899...She was launched in 1885 at Herreshoff Manufacturing Co Shipyards. Bristol, Rhode Island, as a private speculation. She was purchased for the United States Navy under an Act of Congress dated March 3rd 1887, and entered service in July 1887, attached to the Naval Torpedo Station in Newport Rhode Island. Stiletto was the Navy's first Torpedo Boat capable of launching self-propelled torpedoes. Purchased for experimental evaluation, Stiletto was based throughout her career at Newport. She was struck from the Navy list on January 27th 1911 and sold on July 18th 1911 at Newport to James F. Nolan of East Boston, Massachusetts for scrapping.
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Experimental Torpedo Boat USS Stiletto pictured at Brooklyn Navy Yard c1899.
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