Old Navy

[ivorthediver]

Yes I remember seeing one on the stern quarter of German battlecruisers , but these look disproportionally big but thanks for the reply Dennis .

[ivorthediver]

on the photo of Georgia what is the rolled up appendage laying forard on the starboard side ,,,,a mast or a very long boom

[designeraccd]

The long "white" thing forward of A turret 12"? A rolled up sun awning. DFO

[ivorthediver]

SUN AWNING .....good grief Dennis , they will be asking for Ice Cream Next .......what kind of Navy is this

Yes its something you lose track of when its that large and baking in the sun , I recall" Chalky" telling us that you could fry an egg on the decks of carriers when out in the tropics it was so hot

[DonBoyer]

Time to go OLD old navy...one of my favorites from the days of sail, USS Monongahela, a steam sloop, stunsails and all.

USS MONONGAHELA.STEAM SLOOP.jpg

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[ivorthediver]

Excellent Don , cracking shot of a beautiful vessel , thanks...... thats made my day

[designeraccd]

Here is a true tale, move over SS Minnow!

From Wikipedia:

Name: USS R-14
Ordered: 29 August 1916
Builder: Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy, Massachusetts
Laid down: 6 November 1918
Launched: 10 October 1919
Commissioned: 24 December 1919
Decommissioned: 7 May 1945
Struck: 19 May 1945
Fate: Sold, 28 September 1945; scrapped, 1946

General characteristics

Type: R-class submarine
Displacement: 569 long tons (578 t) surfaced
680 long tons (690 t) submerged

Length: 186 ft 2 in (56.74 m)
Beam: 18 ft (5.5 m)
Draft: 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m)
Installed power: 880 hp (660 kW) (diesel engines)
934 hp (696 kW) (electric motors)

Propulsion: Diesel-electric; diesel engines
electric motors

Speed: 13.5 kn (15.5 mph; 25.0 km/h) surfaced
10.5 kn (12.1 mph; 19.4 km/h) submerged

Range: 3,700 nmi (4,300 mi; 6,900 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) surfaced
160 nmi (180 mi; 300 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) submerged

Test depth: 200 ft (61 m)
Complement: 2 officers and 27 men
Armament: 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) bow torpedo tubes (8 torpedoes)
1 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal deck gun


USS R-14 (SS-91) was an R-class coastal and harbor defense submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, in Quincy, Massachusetts on 6 November 1918. She was launched on 10 October 1919 sponsored by Ms. Florence L. Gardner and commissioned on 24 December 1919, with Lieutenant Vincent A. Clarke, Jr., in command.

1919–1929

After a shakedown cruise off the New England coast, R-14 moved to New London, Connecticut, where she prepared for transfer to the Pacific Fleet. In May, she headed south. Given hull classification symbol "SS-91" in July, she transited the Panama Canal in the same month and arrived at Pearl Harbor on 6 September. There, for the next nine years, she assisted in the development of submarine and anti-submarine warfare tactics, and participated in search and rescue operations.


R-14 — under acting command of Lieutenant Alexander Dean Douglas – ran out of usable fuel and lost radio communications in May 1921 while on a surface search mission for the seagoing tug Conestoga about 100 nmi (120 mi; 190 km) southeast of the island of Hawaii. Since the submarine's electric motors did not have enough battery power to propel her to Hawaii, the ship's engineering officer Roy Trent Gallemore came up with a novel solution to their problem. Lieutenant Gallemore decided they could try to sail the boat to the port of Hilo, Hawaii. He therefore ordered a foresail made of eight hammocks hung from a top boom made of pipe bunk frames lashed firmly together, all tied to the vertical kingpost of the torpedo loading crane forward of the submarine's superstructure. Seeing that this gave R-14 a speed of about 1 kn (1.2 mph; 1.9 km/h), as well as rudder control, he ordered a mainsail made of six blankets, hung from the sturdy radio mast (top sail in photo). This added .5 kn (0.58 mph; 0.93 km/h) to the speed. He then ordered a mizzen made of eight blankets hung from another top boom made of bunk frames, all tied to the vertically placed boom of the torpedo loading crane. This sail added another .5 kn (0.58 mph; 0.93 km/h). Around 12:30 pm on 12 May, Gallemore was able to begin charging the boat's batteries.[2] After 64 hours under sail at slightly varying speeds, R-14 entered Hilo Harbor under battery propulsion on the morning of 15 May 1921. Douglas received a letter of commendation for the crew's innovative actions from his Submarine Division Commander, CDR Chester W. Nimitz, USN.

WOW...SAILing a sub!! Outstanding!! No lil SNOWFLAKES in that crew!!! DFO

[ivorthediver]

Necessity is the breeder of invention eh Dennis

Who would have thought it possible to do that , full marks ......

Thanks for such an interesting post Dennis ....well done .

[Brian James]

USS Indiana pictured at New York Navy Yard,Brooklyn in 1906.the first Battleship in the USN comparable to foreign Battleships of the time.Authorized in 1890 and commissioned five years later, she was a small Battleship (10,453 tons), though with heavy armor and ordnance. She also pioneered the use of an intermediate battery. She was designed for coastal defense and as a result, her decks were not safe from high waves on the open ocean.
Indiana served in the Spanish–American War (1898) as part of the North Atlantic Squadron. She took part in both the blockade of Santiago de Cuba and the battle of Santiago de Cuba, which occurred when the Spanish fleet attempted to break through the blockade. Although unable to join the chase of the escaping Spanish Cruisers, she was partly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish Destroyers Plutón and Furor. After the war she quickly became obsolete—despite several modernizations—and spent most of her time in commission as a Training Ship or in the reserve fleet, with her last commission during World War I as a Training Ship for gun crews. She was decommissioned for the third and final time in January 1919 and was shortly after reclassified Coast Battleship Number 1 so that the name Indiana could be reused. She was sunk in shallow water as a target in aerial bombing tests in 1920 and her hull was sold for scrap in 1924

[Brian James]

Paulding Class Destroyer USCG USS Jouett pictured with Lead Ship Protected Cruiser USS Denver in drydock at Charlestown Navy Yard,October 14th 1928.