Ship Names

[Mary, Proud Mom of Nick]

CVN-75 is named after Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), 33rd President of the United States of America (1945-1953).

Among President Truman's accomplishments were ending World War II; providing economic aid and assistance to devastated postwar European countries through the Marshall Plan; promising American support of free nations against direct and indirect Communist aggression under the Truman Doctrine; and establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Note: Several people have pointed out that President Truman did not have a middle initial; therefore the "S" in "Harry S Truman" should not have a period following. Please refer to "Use of the Period After the 'S' in Harry S. Truman's name" for an explanation of this controversy. As for the ship's name it does have, correctly or not, a period following the "S."

[Mary, Proud Mom of Nick]

I love reading about our different ships and where they have gotten their names from - this article is about the USS Truman.

[CCR]

Mary, what is CVN? Do you know where we can order a poster of all the different types of ships and carriers, etc., and it would be so much easier to differentiate the different ones. My brother sent me an old poster showing where they were asking Americans to donate wood for PT boats during the World War II. Hey, thats another category.

[Molly Molly Fo Folly]

My father flew off the air craft carrier USS Copahee in the South Pacific during WWII He was with the Marine flight sqadron VMSB-145 the Red Mousie Squadron
He was in a battle for the island Makin ---and was later stationed at Makin Island.(of course after they took the island)
A friend of mine has a sailor on the ship USS Makin Island that is due to be comissioned this year. The ship is named after the battle my dad fought in. I am going to the comissioning of that ship with her representing my father. I have sooooo much WWII memoribilia. My mother was a WWII Navy W.A.V.E and they met during the war. right before my father left to the South Pacific :)
Here is a pic of my dad with his airplane :)

[CCR]

MOlly, I downloaded this and tried to restore this old thing, but its only 12 kb, and it wasn't any better. The best way to restore it is when you scan it, and intensity (?) the megapixels, (make MP a higher number, like 800) and click on restoration, when you're scanning it. Also mine says remove scratches, remove dust, etc.

this is a great, GREAT picture showing the plane, and I printed it out to show my dad (he was proj mgr on voodoo, demon, banshee, hornet, etc.) but it wasn't very good to print. I wish I lived closer to you so I could scan all that WWII stuff you have.

[CCR]

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/ships/carriers/cv-list.asp

Ship Name Hull Number Commission/Decommission Date Disposition

USS Langley
(CV 1) 20 Mar 1922 /
27 Feb 1942 Conv. to AV 3; Sunk as a result enemy action about 75 miles south of Tjilatjap.


USS Lexington
(CV 2) 14 Dec 1927 /
8 May 1942 Sunk as a result of enemy action at the Battle of the Coral Sea.


USS Saratoga
(CV 3) 16 Nov 1927 /
26 Jul 1946 Used as a test target and sunk at Bikini Atoll.


USS Ranger
(CV 4) 4 Jun 1934 /
18 Oct 1946 Sold for scrap 31 Jan 1947 to Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.


USS Yorktown
(CV 5) 30 Sep 1937 /
7 Jun 1942 Sunk due to enemy action at the Battle of Midway.


USS Enterprise
(CV 6) 12 May 1938 /
17 Feb 1947 Sold, 1 Jul 1958.


USS Wasp
(CV 7) 25 Apr 1940 /
15 Sep 1942 Sunk due to enemy action southeast of San Cristobal Island.


USS Hornet
(CV 8) 20 Oct 1941 /
26 Oct 1942 Sunk due to enemy action at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.


USS Essex
(CV 9) 31 Dec 1942 /
20 Jun 1969 Stricken 1 Jun 1973. Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 1 Jun 1975.


USS Yorktown
(CV 10) 15 Apr 1943 /
27 Jun 1970 Stricken 1 Jun 1973. Established as a floating museum in Charleston, S.C., 13 Oct. 1975.


USS Intrepid
(CV 11) 16 Aug 1943 /
15 Mar 1974 Established as a floating museum in New York City in 1982.


USS Hornet
(CV 12) 20 Nov 1943 /
26 May 1970 Stricken from the Navy List 1989. Donated to The Aircraft Carrier Hornet Foundation for use as a museum on 26 May 1998.


USS Franklin
(CV 13) 31 Jan 1944 /
17 Feb 1947 Reclassified AVT 8 on 15 May 1959. Stricken from the Navy List 10 Oct 1964.


USS Ticonderoga
(CV 14) 8 May 1944 /
1 Sep 1973 Stricken from the Navy List 16 Nov 1973. Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 1 Sept 1975.


USS Randolph
(CV 15) 9 Oct 1944 /
13 Feb 1969 Stricken from the Navy List 1 Jun 1973. Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 1 Apr 1975.


USS Lexington
(CV 16) 17 Feb 1942 /
8 Nov 1991 Stricken from the Navy List 30 Nov 1991. Now a museum in Corpus Christi, Tex.


USS Bunker Hill
(CV 17) 25 May 1943 /
9 Jul 1947 Stricken from the Navy List 1 Nov 1966; retained as moored electronic test ship in San Diego until Nov. 1972. Scrapped 1973.


USS Wasp
(CV 18) 24 Nov 1943 /
1 Jul 1972 Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 21 May 1973.


USS Hancock
(CV 19) 15 Apr 1944 /
30 Jan 1976 Stricken from the Navy List 31 Jan 1976; Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 1 Sept 1976.


USS Bennington
(CV 20) 6 Aug 1944 /
15 Jan 1970 Stricken from the Navy List 1989. Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 1 Dec 1994.


USS Boxer
(CV 21) 16 Apr 1945 /
1 Dec 1969 Stricken from the Navy List 1 Dec 1969; Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 13 Mar 1971.


USS Independence
(CVL 22) 14 Jan 1943 /
28 Aug 1946 Sunk as target 29 Jun 1951.


USS Princeton
(CVL 23) 25 Feb 1943 /
24 Oct 1944 Sunk due to enemy action in the Sibuyan Sea.


USS Belleau Wood
(CVL 24) 31 Mar 1943 /
13 Jan 1947 Transferred to France 1953-1960. Returned. Stricken 1 Oct 1960 and sold for scrapping.


USS Cowpens
(CVL 25) 28 May 1943 /
13 Jan 1947 Stricken from the Navy List 1 Nov 1959 and sold for scrapping.


USS Monterey
(CVL 26) 17 Jun 1943 /
16 Jan 1956 Stricken from the Navy List 1 Jun 1970. Sold for scrapping in May 1971.


USS Langley
(CVL 27) 31 Aug 1943 /
11 Feb 1947 Transferred to France 1951-1963; Sold 19 Feb 1964.


USS Cabot
(CVL 28) 24 Jul 1943 /
21 Jan 1955 Transferred to Spain 30 Aug 1967; returned to private U.S. organization 1989. Auctioned by US Marshals Service to Sabe Marine Salvage, 10 Sep 1999.


USS Bataan
(CVL 29) 17 Nov 1943 /
9 Apr 1954 Stricken from the Navy List 1 Sep 1959. Sold for scrapping May 1961.


USS San Jacinto
(CVL 30) 15 Dec 1943 /
1 Mar 1947 Stricken from the Navy List 1 Jun 1970. Sold for scrapping on 15 Dec 1971 to National Metal and Steel Co., Terminal Island, Calif.


USS Bon Homme
(CV 31) 26 Nov 1944 /
2 Jul 1971 Stricken from the Navy List 1989. Scrapped 4 Feb 1992.


USS Leyte
(CV 32) 11 Apr 1946 /
15 May 1959 Stricken from the Navy List 1 Jun 1969.


USS Kearsarge
(CV 33) 2 May 1946 /
15 Jan 1970 Stricken from the Navy List 1 May 1973. Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 1 Mar 1974.


USS Oriskany
(CVA 34) 25 Sep 1950 /
20 Sep 1979 Stricken from Navy List 1989. Sold 9 Sep 1995, but contractor defaulted. Repossessed by the Navy and contract terminated 30 Jul 1997. Sunk off coast of Florida 17 May 2006 for use as articifical reef.
Reprisal(CV 35) -- /
-- Never completed nor commissioned. Hull, 53% complete, was sold to Boston Metals Co, Baltimore, Md. and scrapped November 1949.


USS Antietam
(CV 36) 28 Jan 1945 /
8 May 1963 Stricken from the Navy List 1 May 1973. Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 1 Dec 1973.


USS Princeton
(CV 37) 18 Nov 1945 /
30 Jan 1970 Stricken from the Navy List 30 Jan 1970.


USS Shangri-La
(CV 38) 15 Sep 1944 /
30 Jul 1971 Stricken from the Navy List 15 Jul 1982; disposed of by MARAD exchange 9 Aug 1988.


USS Lake Champlain
(CV 39) 3 Jun 1945 /
2 May 1966 Stricken from the Navy List 1 Dec 1969. Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 28 Apr 1972.


USS Tarawa
(CV 40) 8 Dec 1945 /
13 May 1960 Stricken from the Navy List 1 Jun 1967.


USS Midway
(CVB 41) 10 Sep 1945 /
11 Apr 1992 Stricken 17 Mar 1997; Towed to San Diego 5 January 2004 to be used as a museum and memorial.


USS Franklin D. Roosevelt
(CVB 42) 27 Oct 1945 /
1 Oct 1977 Stricken from the Navy List 30 Sept 1977; Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 1 Apr 1978.


USS Coral Sea
(CVB 43) 1 Oct 1947 /
26 Apr 1990 Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 7 May 1993.


USS Valley Forge
(CV 45) 3 Nov 1946 /
15 Jan 1970 Stricken from the Navy List 15 Jan 1970; sold for scrap 29 Oct 1971 to Nicolai Joffre Corp., Beverly Hills, Calif.


USS Philippine Sea
(CV 47) 11 May 1946 /
28 Dec 1958 Stricken from the Navy List 1 Dec 1969.


USS Saipan
(CVL 48) 14 Jul 1946 /
14 Jan 1970 Name changed to Arlington 8 Apr 1965 and served as an communications relay ship until decomm. Disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 6 Jun 1976.


USS Wright
(CVL 49) 9 Feb 1947 /
15 Mar 1956 Converted to and commissioned 11 May 1963 as a command ship. Decommissioned 27 May 1970 and disposed of, sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 1 Aug 1980.


USS Forrestal
(CVA 59) 1 Oct 1955 /
30 Sep 1993 Stricken from the Navy List 11 Sep 1993; At the Naval Education and Training Center, Newport, R.I., 14 Sept. 1998 on hold as museum donation.


USS Saratoga
(CVA 60) 14 Apr 1956 /
20 Aug 1994 Stricken from the Navy List 30 Sep 1994; berthed at the Naval Education and Training Center, Newport, R.I., 7 Aug. 1998.


USS Ranger
(CVA 61) 10 Aug 1957 /
10 Jul 1993 In inactive reserve in the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), Bremerton, Wash.


USS Independence
(CV 62) 10 Jan 1959 /
30 Sep 1998 In inactive reserve in the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), Bremerton, Wash.


USS Kitty Hawk
(CV 63) 29 Apr 1961 /
-- Active -- see Fact File


USS Constellation
(CV 64) 27 Oct 1961 /
7 Aug 2003 Towed 12 September 2003, to be placed in inactive reserve in the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), Bremerton, Wash.


USS Enterprise
(CVN 65) 25 Nov 1961 /
-- Active -- see Fact File


USS America
(CV 66) 23 Jan 1965 /
9 Aug 1996 Stricken from Navy List; In the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), Philadelphia, Penn. planned for scrapping, instead sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off the Virginia coast on 14 May 2005, following a series of tests consisting of simulated attacks on the ship.


USS John F. Kennedy(CV 67) 7 Sep 1968 /
23 Mar 2007 --


USS Nimitz
(CVN 68) 3 May 1975 /
-- Active -- see Fact File


USS Dwight D. Eisenhower
(CVN 69) 18 Oct 1977 /
-- Active -- see Fact File


USS Carl Vinson
(CVN 70) 13 Mar 1982 /
-- Active -- see Fact File


USS Theodore Roosevelt
(CVN 71) 25 Oct 1986 /
-- Active -- see Fact File


USS Abraham Lincoln
(CVN 72) 11 Nov 1989 /
-- Active -- see Fact File


USS George Washington
(CVN 73) 4 July 1992 /
-- Active -- see Fact File


USS John C. Stennis
(CVN 74) 9 Dec 1995 /
-- Active -- see Fact File


USS Harry S. Truman
(CVN 75) 25 July 1998 /
-- Active -- see Fact File


USS Ronald Reagan
(CVN 76) 12 July 2003 /
-- Active -- see Fact File


USS George H.W. Bush
(CVN 77) -- /
-- Active -- see Fact File

[CCR]

I saw this on the military channel. The USS Murphy shows to have been sold for scrap in 1972. These divers didn't believe it because they found her on the bottom of the ocean and took pictures. Come to find out, she was hit by an oiler in the middle and broke like a pencil. Her front sank but because the back end was compartimentalized, it didn't and they hauled it backwards in to be repaired and it lived to serve another day.

[CCR]

USS Texas. Painting by W L Cole

[CCR]

Irene, this is a picture of the LHA 4 Nassau (Tarawa class) which is an amphibious asssault ships along with the Saipan and the Belleau Wood, Nassau and Peleliu.
Its from a 1087 book written by John Kirk and Aaron Klein I checked out from my library.
These differ from the newer wasps in they were not designed with the LCAC landing craft in mind and can accomodate only one, though they can handle the equivalent of four LCU's in their docking wells, and stow 2 LCM's and 2 LCPs elsewehere.

[Suzann]

The origional name for the Truman was to be the USS United States. The Clinton admistration changed it. Also the Anchor chains on the ship are from the USS Forestal. ( sorry about the spelling) The ship they use in Basic for all their fire fighting.

[CCR]

So, this is the ship they do battle stations on Suzann? You're talking about boot camp?

[CCR]

These are just a few of the ships my brother was on mid sixties to mid eighties.

HS-1, HS-5, HS-74, and HSL-74
USS Essex (CVS-18) NATO cruise/Apollo Pick-up HS-5
USS Intreped (CVS-11) Sea Quals HS-5
USS Wasp (CVS-9) NATO cruise HS-5

A couple of DD with helo pads on the stern.

HSL-74 I have googled and yahooed and can't find the 44,000 safety hours picture he says he is in (online)
He was an AE.
Must have been very exciting to pick up all those astronauts!!!

[CCR]

USS Constitution

Constitution Designated Ship of State
November 12, 2009
Navy News|by MC1 Eric Brown
CHARLESTOWN NAVY YARD, Mass. - USS Constitution became America's Ship of State.

USS Constitution's primary mission will remain education and public outreach, and any Ship of State functions will be an adjunct to the ship's primary mission, according the National Defense Authorization Act For Fiscal Year 2010 in section 1022. It is the sense of Congress that the president, vice president, executive branch officials, and members of Congress should use the USS Constitution for the conducting of pertinent matters of state, such as hosting visiting heads of state, signing legislation relating to the armed forces, and signing maritime related treaties.

"I am really proud and humbled to be a part of this honor," Cooper said. "USS Constitution has always been the most visible reminder of the beginnings of our Navy. Now, USS Constitution is a visible reminder of America, and all that we stand for."

Constitution was launched into the Boston Harbor on Oct. 21, 1797. In her years of active service, from 1798 - 1855, the three-masted wooden frigate fought in the Quasi-War with France, the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812. Today, Old Ironsides is the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world, has a permanent crew of 73 active duty U.S. Navy Sailors, and is visited by nearly half a million people every year.

The origins of Old Ironsides status as America's Ship of State were in July of 1997, when then Cmdr. Chris Melhuish, Constitution's 65th commanding officer had a vision for the future of the ship, shortly before he took command.

"The idea struck me after Cmdr. Michael Beck [USS Constitution's 64th commanding officer] challenged me to create my vision for the ship, following his vision, which was to sail the ship for the first time in 116 years, for Constitution's bicentennial," said Melhuish.

The status of the ship had inherently changed after that historic sail, and Constitution should no longer be thought of as a pierside museum exhibit.

"The best description of the ship was 'ship of state,'" Melhuish said. "That was the vision, and then began the long process of translating that vision into a concept."

In October of 2006, he laid out that concept on paper, which was endorsed by the Congress of the Naval Order of the United States, and by Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England.

"The people of this country, through Congress, have done the right thing, which should have been done in 1815," said Melhuish, referring to a National Intelligencer article that appeared in 1815.

"Let us keep Old Ironsides at home," the newspaper author opined, shortly after Constitution won a string of victories against her British adversaries in the War of 1812. "She has, literally, become a nation's ship, and should be preserved. Not as a sheer hulk in ordinary (for she is no ordinary vessel); but, in honorable pomp as a glorious monument of her own, and other naval victories."

"One hundred and ninety-four years later, we have recognized our greatest ship," Melhuish said. "I'm very, very happy about that."