Ships Built in West Virginia - USS Elder, Major General Wallace F. Randolph, USS Signal, Uscgc Triton, USS Picket, USS Holly, USS Trapper (Paperback)

Chapters: Uss Elder, Major General Wallace F. Randolph, Uss Signal, Uscgc Triton, Uss Picket, Uss Holly, Uss Trapper, Uss Barricade, Uss Antelope, Uss Obstructor, Usns Lynch, Uss Larch, Uss Planter, Uss Gum Tree, Usns Sands, Uss Bastion, Uss Barbican, Uss Chimo, Uscgc Yamacraw, Uss Miantonomah, Uscgc Greenbrier, Uss Canonicus, Uss Monadnock, P.a. Denny, Uss Puritan, Camanche. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 99. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: USS Elder (AN-20/YN-15) was an Aloe-class net laying ship which was assigned to serve the U.S. Navy during World War II with her protective anti-submarine nets. Elder (YN-15) was launched 19 June 1941 by Marietta Manufacturing Company, Point Pleasant, West Virginia; and placed in service 12 November 1941, Lieutenant T. D. E. Martin, USNR, in charge. She was redesignated AN-20 on 20 January 1944. Serving in the 1st Naval District Elder laid and tended nets at Boston, Massachusetts, until 15 March 1942, then sailed to Portland, Maine, to serve as controlling gate vessel in Hussey Sound. She was commissioned 15 December 1942, Lieutenant D. H. Morse, USNR, in command. Elder returned to Boston 25 June 1943, and sailed 8 August, for San Diego, California, Pearl Harbor, and Funafuti, Ellice Islands, arriving 15 November. She assembled, launched, and tended nets there, and after the capture of the Gilbert Islands, sailed to Tarawa in December for mooring and net operations off that island, Makin, and Abemama. Departing the Gilberts in February 1944 with LCT-247 in tow for Kwajalein, she laid and cared for nets in the Marshall Islands until the end of the year. After an overhaul on the U.S. West Coast, Elder returned to the South Pacific Ocean to repair nets at the fleet base at Manus, arriving there 30 April 1945. The following month she got under...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1865032