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Annapolis Yacht Yard was a major builder of sub chasers and PT boats during World War II.In 1947, after the death of Chris Nelson, Annapolis Yacht Yard sold to John Trumpy & Sons. [1]
USS Casimir Pulaski (SSBN-633), a James Madison-class ballistic missile submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Casimir Pulaski (1745–1779), a Polish general who served in the American Revolutionary War.
The project was conceived by Henry Salomon, who, while a U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander during World War II, was a research assistant to historian Samuel Eliot Morison. [2] Morison was then writing the 15-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Salomon learned of the large amounts of film that the opposing navies had ...
The Project 633 class (known in the West by its NATO reporting name as the Romeo class) is a class of Soviet diesel-electric submarine, built between 1957 and 1961. A Chinese variant, Type 033 , was built in China from 1962 to 1984.
The SC-497-class submarine chasers were a class of 438 submarine chasers built primarily for the United States Navy from 1941–1944. [1] The SC-497s were based on the experimental submarine chaser, USS SC-453. Submarine chasers of this variety were collectively nicknamed "the splinter fleet" due to their wooden hulls. [2]
She was commissioned into the US Navy as USS SC-1061 on 5 January 1943. [ 1 ] In August 1943 US Admiral Harold R. Stark , commander of US Naval Forces Europe , ordered SC-1061 and two other SC-class subchasers - SC-683 and SC-718 - to be transferred to Britain.
US Navy NH 96504 a 63 ft (19 m) air-sea rescue boat built by Fellows & Stewart US Navy submarine chaser SC-1011 built by Fellows & Stewart, off Terminal Island in July 1943. Fellows & Stewart Inc. was a shipbuilding company in San Pedro, California on Terminal Island's Pier 206.
USS SC-632 was a SC-497 class submarine chaser that served in the United States Navy during World War II. She was laid down on 23 February 1942 by the Mathis Yacht Building Co. in Camden, New Jersey and launched on 25 June 1942. She was commissioned on 2 September 1942. She foundered on 16 September 1945 off the coast of Okinawa. Her hulk was ...