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USS Oglala (ID-1255/CM-4/ARG-1) was a minelayer in the United States Navy. Commissioned as Massachusetts , she was renamed Shawmut a month later, and in 1928, was renamed after the Oglala , a sub-tribe of the Lakota , residing in the Black Hills of South Dakota .
In the foreground is the capsized minelayler USS Oglala (CM-4), with the light cruiser USS Helena (CL-50) further down the pier, at left. Beyond Helena is Drydock No.1, with USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and the burning destroyers USS Cassin (DD-372) and USS Downes (DD-375).
USS Shawmut, named for the shawmut, is the name of more than one ship of the United States Navy USS Shawmut (1863) , an American Civil War gunboat 1863–1877. Massachusetts was renamed Shawmut (CM-4) in 1917 and then it was renamed USS Oglala on 1 January 1928.
He was present at the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, when he was on board his flagship, the minelayer USS Oglala, when it capsized after being strafed and torpedoed by the Japanese. From December 12, 1941, to nearly the end of the war, he was commander of the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard and was charged with salvaging and repairing ships ...
USS Oglala: Sunk 7 December 1941 during the Pearl Harbor attack by torpedo bombers from aircraft carrier Sōryū. Later raised and converted to engine repair ship. USS Palmer Sunk by Japanese aircraft, January 7 1945. USS Penguin: Scuttled after strafing damage at Guam on 8 December 1941. USS Perry Sunk after hitting a mine, September 13 1944.
The Oglala will live forever in our collective national memory. 169.252.4.21 ( talk ) 15:18, 11 October 2017 (UTC) PearlWeaver [ reply ] DANFS and corporate history
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In 1935, Cogswell commanded the minelayer USS Oglala, the flagship of a flotilla of minesweepers assisting the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in charting the Aleutian Islands. Cogswell was naval attaché in Paris , France , in the late 1930s.