Roger that.
USN IC3
Still hold myself to the oath I took in ‘67.
FAIR WINDS FOLLOWING SEAS
USN RM2 1956-64
“STILL SERVING”
"Happy Birthday, Navy!!
Happy birthday Squid!
Shipmates!
Still the best!
all you swabies, squids and airdales meet at the GEEDUNK when you hear the BOATSWAIN’S PIPE and load up with BOKOO CHITS to fill your DITTY BAGS and your DUNGAREES before the messdeck MASTER-AT-ARMS put you in SICKBAY for SKYLARKING because the SMOKING LAMP is out and you end up at CAPTAIN’S MAST. Sweepers sweepers give the ship a clean sweepdown fore and aft....The fantail is open...
Thanks for posting this. We have had so many Navy people in three generations of my family.
My dad was a commander in the Civil Engineering Corps, and a recipient of the Navy Cross for his valor in WWII. My brother fought in Vietnam on the “swift boats”. My other brother was a Naval Reserve Officer in the Civil Engineering Corps, who served in Iraq and the Pacific. My nephew was a nuclear submarine captain, had a year of active duty in Afghanistan, and continues to be in the reserves. My other nephew was enlisted, serving in the Pacific.
Even I, a civilian, worked for the Navy Exchange in the Navy Uniform department for a couple of years.
God bless Navy people.
-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
Haddens 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
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. Johns 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 Arnolds 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 outposts life would be measured in a few short weeks. The defeat of Arnolds 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.
How I miss my Battleship. I wish they would bring them back. :(
Happy Birthday Aye! BUC(SCW) Ret. SEABEES CAN DO!
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