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The USCGC Bibb (WPG-31) was a 327-foot (100 m) Secretary-Class (also known as "Treasury Class") Coast Guard ship commissioned in 1936. Seven similar "combat cutters" were built and named for secretaries of the United States Treasury. The legendary Bibb was named for U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (July 4, 1844 – March 7, 1845) George M. Bibb.
The ship saw servic...
The USCGC Duane (WPG-33) was a cutter in the United States Coast Guard. Her keel was laid on May 1, 1935 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was launched on June 3, 1936 as a search and rescue and law enforcement vessel.
Duane is now a historic shipwreck near Key Largo, Florida, United States. The cutter was deliberately sunk on November 27,...
SSMission San Miguelwas a Type T2-SE-A2 tanker built for the United States Maritime Commission during World War II. After the war she was acquired by the United States Navy asUSSMission San Miguel(AO-129). Later the tanker transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service asUSNSMission San Miguel(T-AO-129). She was a oiler and was named for Mission San Miguel Arc...
The USNS Vandenberg was sunk May 27, 2009 and will be the second-largest artificial reef in the world, after the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany. Warm water almost year-round, tropical conditions, and the vacation/resort atmosphere of Key West combine to make the Vandenberg a most desirable destination.
The ship start off as the USS General Harry Taylor (AP-145), a Gene...
The was a Chanticleer-class submarine rescue ship in the United States Navy.
Macaw was laid down 15 October 1941 by the Moore Dry Dock Co., Oakland, California; launched 12 July 1942; sponsored by Miss Valnessa Easton of Berkeley, Calif.; and commissioned exactly one year later, Lt. Comdr. Paul Willits Burton in command.
Departing California 28 August 1943, after shak...
USS Massachusetts (BB-2) is anIndiana-class battleship and the second United States Navy ship comparable to foreign battleships of its time.
Authorized in 1890, and commissioned six years later, she was a small battleship, though with heavy armor and ordnance. The ship class also pioneered the use of an intermediate battery. She was designed for coastal defense and as...
USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the Union Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, the first such ship commissioned by the Navy. Monitor played a central role in the Battle of Hampton Roads on 9 March under the command of Lieutenant John L. Worden, where she fought the casemate ironclad CSS Virginia (built on the hull of ...
USS Oriskany (CV/CVA-34) – nicknamed Mighty O, The O-boat, and Toasted O was deliberately sunk off the Florida coast near Pensacola in 2004, and now functions as the world’s largest artificial reef. She was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy.
The Times of London named the Oriska...
SMS Geier ("His Majesty's ShipVulture") was an unprotected cruiser of theBussardclass built for the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine). She was laid down in 1893 at the Imperial Dockyard in Wilhelmshaven, launched in October 1894, and commissioned into the fleet a year later in October 1895. Designed for service in Germany's overseas colonies, the ship required...
USS Spiegel Grove (LSD-32) was a Thomaston-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was named for Spiegel Grove, the home and estate in Fremont, Ohio, of Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th President of the United States.
Spiegel Grove was decommissioned 2 October 1989 and her name struck from the Navy list on 13 December 1989. The vessel was transferred to th...
USS Tarpon (SS-175), second ship of this name, was laid down on 22 December 1933 at Groton, Connecticut, by the Electric Boat Corporation; launched on 4 September 1935; sponsored by Miss Eleanore Katherine Roosevelt, daughter of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry L. Roosevelt; and commissioned on 12 March 1936, Lt. Leo L. Pace (Class of 1921) in command.
Tarponoper...
USS Tucker (DD-374) was one of 18Mahan-class destroyers built for the United States Navy and was commissioned in 1936.Tucker's main battery consisted of five dual-purpose 38 caliber 5-inch (127 mm) guns.
First assigned to the United States Battle Fleet in San Diego, California,Tuckeroperated along the West Coast and in the Hawaiian Islands. After participating in nava...
USS YO-257 was a Yard Oiler of the United States Navy that was scuttled two miles off Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii in 1989.
Built in the 1940s,YO-257saw action in World War II, the Korean War, and in the Vietnam War.
From 16 September to 12 November 1963 the ship was temporarily loaned to the Coast Guard to assist in the construction of a LORAN radio navigation station i...
Utila Island has only one small town in contrast to its more heavily populated cousin, Roatan, among Honduras’s Bay Island archipelago. Most of the commerce on the island, including the dive shops and tour operators, is located along the lone paved road that caresses the island’s shoreline. The infrastructure is best described as rustic but what Utila lack...
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