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USS Drum (SS-228) is a Gato-class submarine of the United States Navy, the first Navy ship named after the drum, a type of fish. Drum is a museum ship in Mobile, Alabama, at Battleship Memorial Park. Drum was the twelfth of the Gato class but was the first completed and the first to enter combat in World War II. She is the oldest of her class ...
Drum is a 1976 American drama film based on the 1962 Kyle Onstott novel of the same name. [1] It was released by United Artists and is a sequel to the film Mandingo , released in 1975. The film stars Warren Oates , Pam Grier and Ken Norton , and was directed by Steve Carver .
Two submarines of the United States Navy have been named USS Drum, after the fish known as drums. USS Drum (SS-228) was a Gato-class submarine, commissioned November 1941 and active throughout World War II. USS Drum (SSN-677) was a Sturgeon-class nuclear submarine in service from 1972 to 1995.
The first boat laid down was actually USS Drum at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on 11 September 1940. She was commissioned on 1 November 1941, and was the only Gato -class ship in commission when the war started.
USS Drum (SSN-677), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the drum, also known as the croaker or hardhead, any of various fishes of the Sciaenidae family, capable of making a drumming noise and best known on the Atlantic coast of North America.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Rindskopf graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1938. He was assigned to the battleship USS Colorado (BB-45) for two years. Beginning submarine training in 1940, he joined the crew of USS Drum (SS-228) in time for World War II.
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The battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) arrives at Pearl Harbor, where then-President George H. W. Bush announces that the ship will be decommissioned in California. Casey Ryback, a chief petty officer and a culinary specialist, is preparing meals to celebrate commanding officer Captain Adams' birthday, against the orders of executive officer Commander Krill, who has arranged for food and ...