Historic Naval Ships Association (HNSA) USNCSA is an Associate Member of HNSA USNCSA's page DANFS Online - Cruisers http:// World Navies Today: US Navy Cruisers http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/usa/surface.htm#cg.Shellback initiation rites of US Navy sailors being performed on USS Marblehead (.. HD Stock Footage. Link to order this clip: http: //www. Historic Stock Footage Archival and Vintage Video Clips in HD. Shellback initiation rites of US Navy sailors being performed on USS Marblehead (CL- 1. Initiations rites commemorating sailors' first crossing of the equator( Shellback initiation) being held aboard the USS Marblehead CL- 1. French Indo- China coast. US Navy sailors dressed in aviator uniforms look through their binoculars standing at the bow of the cruiser. The shellbacks ( sailors who have crossed equator), many dressed in costumes, beat up the stripped pollywogs (sailor's who haven't crossed equator) with wet boards and ropes. Scenes of the stern section of the USS Marblehead. Pollywog sailors pushed into tank of water and black oil. Initiation rite being performed on the deck. Sailors pretend to cut a pollywog with a saw and then let him go as he moves through the initiation rites. Location: French Indo China. Date: 1. 93. 9. Visit us at www. Browse through a wide range of boats for sale in Marblehead, Ohio. Best selling 50' Sedan Bridge ever made. This boat has all the goodies and is all fresh water hours. The owner is not using it as much and may go with condo or smaller yacht. Trojan preowned powerboats for sale by owner. Trojan used powerboats for sale by owner. 44' Trojan 44 Motor Yacht In her day the 44 Trojan Motor Yacht was the pinnacle of luxury! This boat has always been in freshwater and had a bow thruster added a few. Find new and used boats for sale in your area. Browse through various listings from thousands of sellers and find the right new or used boat for you. 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Omaha- class cruiser - Wikipedia. USS Milwaukee (CL- 5), an Omaha- class cruiser. Class overview. Name: Omaha class. Operators: United States Navy Soviet Navy (Loaned USS Milwaukee)Preceded by: Chester class. Succeeded by: Brooklyn class. In commission: 1. The oldest class of cruiser still in service with the Navy at the outbreak of World War II, the Omaha class was an immediate post- World War I design. History. Built to scout for a fleet of battleships, the Omaha class featured high speed (3. Displacing 7,0. 50 long tons (7,1. The Omaha class was designed specifically in response to the British Centaur subclass of the C- classcruiser. Although from a modern viewpoint, a conflict between the US and Great Britain seems implausible, US Navy planners during this time and up to the mid- 1. Britain to be a formidable rival for power in the Atlantic, and the possibility of armed conflict between the two countries plausible enough to merit appropriate planning measures. The Omaha class mounted four smokestacks, a look remarkably similar to the Clemson- classdestroyers (a camouflage scheme was devised to enhance the resemblance). Their armament showed the slow change from casemate- mounted weapons to turret- mounted guns. They held a full twelve 6- inch/5. Launched in 1. 92. Omaha (designated C- 4 and later CL- 4) had a displacement of 7,0. The cruisers emerged with a distinctly old- fashioned appearance owing to their World War I- type stacked twin casemate- mount cannons and were among the last broadside cruisers designed anywhere. As a result of the design changes placed on the ship mid- construction, the Omaha that entered the water in 1. The ships were insufficiently insulated, too hot in the tropics and too cold in the north. Sacrifices in weight savings in the name of increased speed led to severe compromise in the habitability of the ship. While described as a good ship in a seaway, the low freeboard led to frequent water ingestion over the bow and in the torpedo compartments and lower aft casements. The lightly built hulls leaked, so that sustained high- speed steaming contaminated the oil tanks with sea water. These drawbacks notwithstanding, the US Navy took some pride in the Omaha class. They featured improved compartmentalization; propulsion machinery was laid out on the unit system, with alternating groups of boiler rooms and engine rooms, to prevent immobilization by a single torpedo hit. Magazines were the first to be placed on centerline, below the waterline. A serious flaw in these ships' subdivision was the complete lack of watertight bulkheads anywhere above the main deck or aft on the main deck. Originally designed to serve as a scout, they served throughout the interwar period as leaders of fleet flotillas, helping them resist enemy destroyer attack. Tactical scouting became the province of cruiser aircraft, and the distant scouting role was taken over by the new heavy cruisers spawned by the Washington Naval Treaty. Thus, the Omaha class never performed their designed function. They were relegated to the fleet- screening role, where their high speed and great volume of fire were most appreciated. Due to the large topweight lasting on these ships, compounded by the high- mounted catapults, the Navy removed the two lower aft firing casemate- mounted 6- inch guns in 1. These were the oldest class of cruisers still in service with the Navy in 1. All were modified during the war with additional 2. Both Detroit and Raleigh were at Pearl Harbor during the attack, with Raleigh being torpedoed. Detroit, along with St. Louis and Phoenix were the only large ships to get out of the harbor during the attack. The ships of the Omaha class spent most of the war deployed to secondary theaters and in less vital tasks than those assigned to more recently built cruisers. The Omaha class were sent in places where their significant armament might be useful if called upon, but where their age and limited abilities were less likely to be tested. These secondary destinations included patrols off the East and West coasts of South America, convoy escort in the South Pacific far from the front lines of battle, patrols and shore bombardment along the distant and frigid Aleutians and Kuril Islands chains, and bombardment duty in the invasion of Southern France when naval resistance was expected to be minimal. The most significant action that any of the ships of the class saw during the war was Marblehead's participation in early war actions around the Dutch East Indies (most notably, the Battle of Makassar Strait), and Richmond's engagement in the Battle of the Komandorski Islands. None of the ships were wartime losses. Raleigh's torpedo damage at Pearl Harbor and Marblehead's damage at Makassar Straight were the only significant wartime combat damage suffered by the class. The ships of the class were considered obsolete as the war ended, and were decommissioned and scrapped within seven months of the surrender of Japan (with the exception of Milwaukee, which had been loaned to the Soviet Navy, and was scrapped when returned to US Navy control in 1. Ships of the class. Navy was not entirely pleased with the Omaha class, so a new design was drawn up that was derived from it. The first, intended to function as a monitor, had two 1. The second design eventually evolved into the Pensacola- class cruiser. Appearances in Media.
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