Posted on 10/13/2013 8:34:49 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
Happy 238 Years US Navy!
I served aboard,
General Upshur, General GIEGER, Gneral Gibbons, Pvt. Baltchford,General Maurice Rose, General Simon B. Buckner.
-SKENESBOROUGH, [WHITEHALL], NEW YORK
BIRTHPLACE OF THE U.S. NAVY-
U.S. NAVY WATERBORNE CONTINENTAL TROOP TRANSPORTS
1776 July “From Skenesborough... troops [American] were carried to Ticonderoga, a distance of thirty miles, in flat boats.”
1776 “September . – We took our route through Worcester, Springfield, Charlestown, in New Hampshire, and over the Green Mountains to Skenesboro; which is the place of rendezvous for the continental troops and militia destined for Ticonderoga. Here boats are provided at the entrance to Lake Champlain...”
sources: Jones, p.130
Cook, “Sketches of Essex County Ticonderoga”, p108; quoting James Thatcher M.D.’s “Military Journal During the American Revolutionary War From 1775 to 1783”
U.S. NAVY ON LAKE GEORGE
1777 February 1 “With a [American] naval force on Lake George…”
1777 February 21 “As early as Feb. 21, 1777, the New York Committee of Safety authorized shipwrights to be sent to Lake George to build vessels. On March 24, Schuyler sent Captain Jacobus Wyncoop, the controversial commodore of the 1776 American fleet before Arnold assumed command, to Fort George to ‘employ Carpenters in constructing two strong schooners of Sixty feet Keel & twenty feet Beam…”
1777 July 12 “…as the Enemy [Americans] had Vessels on this Lake [Lake George] a sufficient number of Gun Boats [British] were kept armed and clear for Action, the rest were loaded with Stores and Provisions”-
JAMES MACINTOSH REVEALS U.S. NAVAL ELEMENTS AT TICONDEROGA TO BRITISH
1777 June 18 ``Question: What number of Shipping [American] at Ticonderoga?
Answer: Two Galleys, one called the GATES, the other`s name not known, mounting about 12 Six pounders each: one Sloop taken from St. John`s, called the BETSEY , mounting about 12 Six pounders; two Scooners [sic], very small, and one taken from St. John`s, the other from Major Skeene, its burther [burden, displacement] about ten Tun entirely loaded with powder each mounting four four Pounders; one Gondola two Nine Pounders, making Six in all – about 50 Batteaux fit for use and 30 useless.``
1777 June 18 ``Question: What number of Vessels or Boats [American] on Lake George?
Answer: One Petite Auger mounting two four Pounders and three Scooners [sic] building, intended to mount six Guns each, weight of mettle not known as yet not half finished, and as far as I can learn not above a dozen Batteaux on the lake which are totally employed transporting provisions from Fort George for the use of the troops at Ticonderoga.``
sources: “Horatio Gates Papers”, Box 6, No.41
Bellico, “Sails and Steam”, p. 164; Bellico cites Clark, Wm. Bell and Morgan Wm. James,
“”Naval documents of the American Revolution”, Department of the Navy, Naval History
Division, Washington, D.C., 1964-1986, Vol. 8, pp.187-188; Vol. 7, pp.1225-1256; 627
Hadden’s Journal
Inquisition, p.240 [Inquisition of a Spy, ``Examination of James McIntosh, Inhabitant About Half a Mile Westward of
Ticonderoga Brought Into Brigadier General Fraser`s Camp River Bouquet 18th June 1777 –
By A Party Of Indians Under The Command Of Lieut-Scott,`` BFTM, Vol. X, No. 34, 1959,
pp.240-245
“The Navy died four years ago” ~ My Husband, retired Submarine Officer
Mason M. Patrick (nicknamed the Micky Mouse)
William Darby (twice)
G. M. Randall
E. D. Patrick
W. A. Mann
One of these old girls split in two while tied to a dock in the US in the early 1950s. It was raised, welded back together and continued its service into the Viet Nam era.
I can't find a reference to the name of the ship but my dad told the story and believed it to be true.
Our family was stationed in Japan in the 50s...
Can you guess its actual name ?
"Army's Navy" is really confusing.
Don’t Forget The United States Marine(As Obongo Would Say)Corpse!Novenber 10,1775!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
U.S. NAVY ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN
THE LAKE CHAMPLAIN GONDOLAS
1776 “The Lake Champlain gondolas were [1776] flat-bottomed with an approximate length of 54 feet and a 15 ½ foot beam.” [built at Skenesborough:
New Haven
Providence,
Boston
Philadelphia
Spitfire
Congress
Trumbull
New York [Success]
Liberty
Lee = row galley, 43 feet 9 inches long]”
Second Officer at Skenesborough under Arnold was General David Waterbury of Connecticut. Liberty captured at Skenesboro by Capt. Herrick May 1775; Enterprise captured at St. John’s by Arnold May 1775
AMERICAN MARINES ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN IN 1776
“James Calderwood: His name appears in a general order dated Sept. 4 1776 detailing soldiers from the Army to serve as Marines in Arnold`s fleet on Lake Champlain, the order reading in part,
“They will proceed directly and join General Arnold, under the command of Lieutenant Calderwood, of Marines.”-
source = “CONTINENTAL MARINE OFFICERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION” [by] Major Edwin N. McClellan, U.S.M.C., Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine’, Volume 56, p28. ff [33]
BENEDICT ARNOLD`S LAKE CHAMPLAIN FLEET
1776 October
Benedict Arnold’s ships:
(some rigged at Mt. Independence, armed at Ticonderoga -August)
Galleys -
Trumbull: one 18-pounder, one 12-pounder, two 9- pounders, four 6-pounders
(30 September)
Captain Warner, Col. Wigglesworth
Lee: (later) one 12-pounder, one 9-pounder under Captain Davis
Congress: two 8-pounders, two 12-pounders, six 4-pounders General Waterbury
Sloops
Liberty : four 4-pounders, four 2-pounders, 35 men Captain Premier
Enterprise: twelve 4-pounders, 50 men Captain Dickenson
Schooners -
Royal Savage: four 6-pounders, eight 4-pounders, 50 men, Capt. Jacob Wyncoop,
Captain Hawley
Revenge: four 4-pounders, two 2-pounders, 35 men, Captain Seaman
Gondolas -
Boston: one 12-pounder, two 6-pounders, 45 men, Captain Sumner
Providence: one 12-pounder, two 6-pounders, 45 men, Captain Simonds
New Haven: one 12-pounder, two 6-pounders, 45 men, Captain Samuel Mansfield
Spitfire : one 12-pounder, two 6-pounders, 45 men, Captain Ulmer
Philadelphia: one 12-pounder, two 6-pounders, 45 men, Captain Rice, (with Col. Wigglesworth)
Jersey: one 12-pounder, two 6-pounders, 45 men, Captain Grimes
Connecticut: : one 12-pounder, two 6-pounders, 45 men, Captain Grant
New York : one 12-pounder, two 6-pounders, 45 men, Captain Reed
Washington: one 18-pounder, one 12-pounder , two 9-pounders, four 4-pounders Captain Thatcher; Gen. Waterbury
Arnold had on board 10 sergeants, 6 corporals, 6 drummers, and 102 privates from Pennsylvania regiments as marines and seamen.
AFTERMATH OF THE BATTLE OF VALCOUR ISLAND
COFFIN POINT, CROWN POINT
Coffin Point south of Ft. Frederick, a few yards south on the shore:
“The American forces at Crown Point, specifically the 6th Pennsylvania Battalion, would construct a fort in August at Coffin Point. The new military outpost’s life would be measured in a few short weeks. The defeat of Arnold’s fleet near Plattsburgh on October 11, 1775 would signal her demise. Two days later the American forces would burn the timber structure and retreat south. The victorious British forces would arrive at the orphaned Crown Point on the 14th but winter comes early in the Champlain Valley and they returned north. The once vital position fell silent and would not be occupied until the next summer.” [Crown Point historians state that this is where the bodies of American sailors from Valcour Island battle were taken and placed in coffins.]
sources:
Bellico, “Sails & Steam”, pp.138-139
Jones, Charles Henry. “History of the Campaign For Canada”, Philadelphia: Porter & Coates , 1882; NY: Research Reprints, 1970, p.141
Jones, p.242
http://www.adirondackgoldpages.com/regional/crownpoint.htm
Happy birthday to the world’s second best flying service.
Love
A 22 yr Air Force vet.
It began life as the Army Transport Command. Was renamed MSTS and given to the US Navy, but was never staffed, to my knowledge, by American sailors.
Naming all the ships for Army generals and a few presidents gave it the nickname Army’s Navy.
E.D. Patrick: From San Fran to Seattle and then onto Yokohama Harbor in 1957. Took 18 days because of searching for a downed plane and typhoon.
If memory serves me right, E.D. Patrick was mothballed in Suisun Bay, then sold to India for scrap.
How I miss my Battleship. I wish they would bring them back. :(
You called?
Hitting the Navy Ball in Anchorage in a couple of weeks, first time we’ve been in many years. To my pleasant surprise the uniform actually fits better than it did when I retired.
I think they’re all gone now.
Happy Birthday Aye! BUC(SCW) Ret. SEABEES CAN DO!
I knew a bunch of soldiers who made the crossing from NJ to Bremerhaven. As an airman, i managed to cross both oceans on MATS-chartered aircraft, and managed to keep all my meals down.
Have a great time in AK!
Second best, my foot.
NOTICE OF CANCELLATION:
As part of the government shut down effective October 1, 2013 the USNA band march on Maryland Avenue and musical tribute on the State House steps in honor of the 238th NAVY birthday scheduled on Monday October 7th between 4 and 5:30 pm EST has been cancelled.
http://www.annapolis.com/downtown-annapolis-set-celebrate-navys-238th-birthday/
http://www.whitehavenandwesternlakeland.co.uk/Festival99/ceremony.htm
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