A high note for bugle - Family returns instrument to USS New York

SUN HERALD ^ | Oct 16, 2009 | KAREN NELSON

[Islander7]

A Coast family made sure a bugle was placed aboard the soon-to-be USS New York before she sailed from a shipyard in Louisiana this week.

Even though Navy ships don’t use buglers anymore, this one was a piece of history. It had been blown to rally crews aboard the battleship USS New York during World Wars I and II and wound up in the care of a mariner from Mississippi, H.R. “Shorty” Reynolds, who died in 2003.

His children — Raymond Jr., Carol and Mickey Reynolds — took the bugle that had hung in their father’s office for more than a decade and delivered it to the captain of the Navy’s newest amphibious assault ship in a ceremony aboard the ship at Northrop Grumman’s Avondale shipyard near New Orleans last week.

[Islander7]

“The commander seemed to be really excited to get it, the bugle,” said Raymond Reynolds. “He said it’s almost like having a living piece of history, because we know it was part of that crew and ship, and to bring it on board was an honor.”

[Islander7]

Mississippi PING!

[BenLurkin]

wound up in the care of

[stylecouncilor]

ping

[NonValueAdded]

God Bless the Reynolds family, the dad for recognizing where the bugle needed to be after 9-11 and the family for persevering in making it so. Bravo Zulu.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

USS New York, BB 34. Launched Oct, 1912. Originally coal fired. Sister ship to the USS Texas.
Hit by kamikaze off Okinawa in April, 1945. Retired with three battle stars.

[Ready4Freddy]

Great find, Islander, thanks.

The ship in question doesn't really look like a bugle-type ship, does it?:

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Wow. Outer space is more like it.

[Constitution Day]

The bugle had been removed in 1945 from the old dreadnought before it was sent on its final mission, to be used for atomic bomb testing and then target practice.

The bugle wound up in H.R. Reynolds’ care because he had become the ship’s historian. He had served on the battleship and had come to love the USS New York and his short years of service in the Navy.

[Ready4Freddy]

The Force is strong in you, Eric.

Here's your bugle-type ship, (BB-34):

Per wiki, "USS New York (BB-34) was a United States Navy battleship, the lead ship of her class of two (Texas being the other). She was the fifth ship to carry her name."

[laker_dad]

What are the two towers for?

[Ready4Freddy]

May well be the only piece of wood on that ship!

This is also the ship that has several tons of WTC steel in the bow, right?

[Ready4Freddy]

Rappelling practice for the Marines.

[frithguild]

Construction of the battleship USS New York began with a keel laying on Sept. 11, 1911, exactly 90 years before the World Trade Center attack, which gave birth to the new ship.

That's alot of 911's - spooky.

[Ready4Freddy]

Weeiiiirrrrd...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I missed that. Note the pix Freddy posted above.
Now, that's my kind of smoke stack !

[Tijeras_Slim]

Took part in Operation Crossroads Shot Baker.

Even with the right edge of the blast column. Was scuttled off Hawaii shortly afterwards.

[Hazwaste]

Always loved the clean lines of the early New York class ships, the New York and my beloved Texas. They screwed them all up with their new-fangled tripod masts and enclosed bridges. :)

It’s also a shame that they killed the New York in the way they did, though she demonstrated her incredible strength by surviving those nuke tests (only to be sunk after multiple hours of bombardment with post-WW2 weapons).

She should have ended up as a memorial in New York, the way Texas did down here.

[Ready4Freddy]

But seriously:

“The Advanced Enclosed Mast/Sensors, which enclose the ship’s radars and communications antennas, characterize the ship’s distinctive profile”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio_class_amphibious_transport_dock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Enclosed_Mast/Sensor

Caution, it’s wiki...

[r9etb]

What are the two towers for?

Remember that the ship was built long before radar. They're crow's nests where lookouts would be stationed to spot enemy ships, and to do fire control. (Two towers would also provide ranging through triangulation).