Kevin

June 7

 

 

1692

Port Royal, Jamaica destroyed by Earthquake and subsequent tsunami.

1777

HMS Fox (28), Cptn. Patrick Fotheringham, was taken by American frigatesHancock (32), Cpt. John Manley, and Boston (30), Cptn. Hector McNeil, off Newfoundland Banks.

forgot to mention the hull looks great

have a good break - see you in couple of weeks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvDDDKnNhuE

 

 

It's taken me over an hour to write this update, it's all the fault of the RAF, they keep flying over my house in a Spitfire, yesterday it was a Hurricane, how the hell do they expect anybody to get any work done.

 

Mobbsie - it the defense cuts - last year they had two pilots, but have made one redundant since, so it the same pilot

i was reading through looking for a relevant link and saw the facts below Téméraire clas - 115 of these 74 gun ships

 

 

Impétueux was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

She took part in the Glorious First of June in 1794. During the battle, HMS Marlborough became tangled with Impétueux. Badly damaged and on the verge of surrender, Impétueux received a brief reprieve when Mucius appeared through the smoke and collided with both ships.^[2] The three entangled ships continued exchanging fire, all suffering heavy casualties with Marlborough and Impétueux losing all three of their masts. This combat continued for several hours. Captain Berkeley of Marlborough had to retire below with serious wounds, and command fell to Lieutenant John Monkton, who signalled for help from the frigates in reserve.^[3] Robert Stopford responded in HMS Aquilon, which had the assignment of repeating signals, and towed Marlborough out of the line as Mucius freed herself and made for the regrouped French fleet to the north.Impétueux was in too damaged a state to move at all and sailors from HMS Russell soon seized her.^[4]

The Royal Navy intended to take into service as HMS Impetueux, but she was destroyed in an accidental fire at Portsmouth on 24 August 1794 and so was never commissioned. During the battle of The Glorious First of June, the Royal Navy had also captured her sister ship America, which it renamed HMS Impetueux in 1795.

Rusty lovely work

 

i am following more and more scratch builds, as i countdown to my next project which will be a 1/24 section build, My Victory comes first though

 

all the best

            Ok so far   2 pieces of Bowsprit attached,moving on to the masts foreward main is built not fixed as of yet,i was going to complete all the foreward first then the main and so on,but for no  particular reason have now decided to do all the  mast bottoms first.Have got to say i do enjoy this part of the build ok its slow going (is there a rush ? )for some reason i find building the masts and yards more interesting then the rest of what i have done dont know why i just do,quess we all got our favorite part of build.  DEREK :pirate41:

Hi Derek - looking very good

 

I have not had chance to do any work on my build for a week now - withdrawal symptoms are setting in, - but have a long weekend ahead - dam that’s full of DIY - lol

 

i think the reason we look forward to masting is - that it changes the whole aspect of the build as we go from length ways to putting height in, and possibly a new chapter opening up, also a lot of work will have gone into the hull that will never be seen, everything you do now is there for all the see

 

June 6

 

1758

Howe attacks St. Malo. 

1762

George Anson died

1800

HMS Impetueux (74), Cptn. Sir Edward Pellew, and consorts took two brigs, two sloops, two gun vessels and about 100 prisoners and destroyed the batteries ashore at Morbihan.

1806

A British prize schooner of HMS Port D'Espagne, Lt. James Pattison Stewart, captured Spanish privateer Mercedes

1827

HMS Cynthia Packet-Brig (6) wrecked off the Island of Barbados.

Masterpiece

this is me riding 25 miles to work there and back 5 days a week, i get there just before time to go home again

there are lots of Victory builds around - of different manufactors

i have just looked through the search engine - no one appears to be building this one, ill get back to you if i find anything

 

but the mantuna kit makes a nice model

oh no -  everything i want - but at present - cannot convince anyone that i should have it - and the P&P from the states does not help

another one for me to follow - nice work

June 5

 

1794

First officers of the U.S. Navy under the Constitution are appointed. 

1807

Boats of HMS Pomone (38), Cptn. Robert Barrie, captured gun-brig and 14 sail south of the Ile d'Yeu

lol

very nice work , my friend

 

 

Also still fuzzy on next build but leaning heavily toward new MS Essex.

lol -i wish i had never thought of my next build, it got me into all sorts of trouble, and i am at still at least a year away from starting it

USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60)

 

USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) was a Casablanca class escort carrier of the United States Navy. She was the first ship to carry her name.

She was converted from a Maritime Commission hull by Kaiser Co., Inc., of Vancouver, Washington. Originally Astrolabe Bay (AVG-60), she was reclassified ACV-60 on 20 August 1942 and launched as Guadalcanal (ACV-60) on 5 June 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Alvin I. Malstrom. She was reclassified CVE-60 on 15 July 1943; and commissioned at Astoria, Oregonon 25 September 1943, Captain Daniel V. Gallery in command.

• 1 Service history
  • 1.1 Capture of U-505
• 2 First Person Accounts
• 3 Awards
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Service history [edit]

After shakedown training in which Capt. Gallery made the first take off and landing aboard his new ship, Guadalcanalperformed pilot qualifications out of San Diego, California, and then departed on 15 November 1943, via the Panama Canal, for Norfolk, Va., arriving on 3 December. There she became flagship of Task Group 22.3 (TG 22.3), and with her escort destroyers set out from Norfolk on 5 January 1944 in search of enemy submarines in the North Atlantic. On 16 January, aircraft from Guadalcanal sighted three submarines fueling on the surface, and in a rocket and bombing attack succeeded in sinking U-544. Replenishing at Casablanca, the task group headed back for Norfolk and repairs, arriving on 16 February.

Departing again with her escorts on 7 March, Guadalcanal sailed without incident to Casablanca and got underway from that port on 30 March with a convoy bound for the United States. Scouring the waters around the convoy on 8 April northwest of Madeira, the task group discovered U-515 and closed in for the kill. Guadalcanal aircraft and Chatelain,Flaherty, Pillsbury and Pope made several well coordinated attacks on the intruder with rockets and depth charges throughout the night. Losing depth control on the afternoon of 9 April, the submarine was forced to surface amid the waiting ships, and was immediately devastated by point blank rocket and gunfire. As F4F Wildcats from Guadalcanal strafed the submarine, her captain, Kapitaenleutenant Werner Henke, ordered abandon ship and she went to the bottom.

Again on the night of 10 April, the task group caught U-68 on the surface in broad moonlight 300 miles south of the Azores and sank her with depth charges and rocket fire. The convoy arrived safely at Norfolk on 26 April 1944.

After voyage repairs at Norfolk, Guadalcanal and her escorts departed Hampton Roads for sea again on 15 May 1944. Two weeks of cruising brought no contacts, and the task force decided to head for the coast of Africa to refuel.

Capture of U-505 [edit]

Ten minutes after reversing course, however, on 4 June 1944, 150 miles West of Cape Blanco in French West Africa,Chatelain detected U-505 as it was returning to its base in Brest, France after an 80-day commerce-destroying raid in theGulf of Guinea. The destroyer loosed one depth charge attack and, guided in for a more accurate drop by circling TBF Avengers from Guadalcanal, she soon made a second. This pattern blasted a hole in the outer hull of the submarine, and rolled the U-boat on its beam ends. Shouts of panic from the conning tower led her inexperienced captain to believe his boat was doomed, so he blew his tanks and surfaced, barely 700 yards from Chatelain. The destroyer fired a torpedo, which missed, and the surfaced submarine then came under the combined fire of the escorts and aircraft, forcing her crew to abandon ship.

Captain Gallery had been waiting and planning for such an opportunity, and having already trained and equipped his boarding parties, ordered Pillsbury's boat to make for the German sub and board her. Under the command of Lieutenant, junior grade Albert David, the party leaped onto the slowly circling submarine and found it abandoned. David and his men quickly captured all important papers and books while closing valves and stopping leaks. As Pillsbury attempted to get a tow-line on her the party managed to stop her engines. By this time a larger salvage group from Guadalcanal led by Commander Earl Trosino, Guadalcanal's Chief Engineer, arrived, and began the work of preparing U-505 to be towed. After securing the towline and picking up the German survivors from the sea, Guadalcanal started for Bermuda with her priceless prize in tow. Abnaki rendezvoused with the task group and took over towing duties, the group arriving in Bermuda on 19 June after a 2,500-mile tow.

U-505 was the first enemy warship captured on the high seas by the U.S. Navy since 1815. For their daring and skillful teamwork in this remarkable capture, Guadalcanal and her escorts shared in a Presidential Unit Citation. Lieutenant David received the Medal of Honor for leading the boarding party, and Captain Gallery received the Legion of Merit for conceiving the operation that led to U-505's capture. The captured submarine proved to be of inestimable value to American intelligence (for the remainder of the war she was operated by the U.S. Navy as the USS Nemo to learn the secrets of German U-boats), and its true fate was kept secret from the Germans until the end of the war. U-505 is the submarine exhibited in the Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago).

Arriving in Norfolk on 22 June 1944, Guadalcanal spent only a short time in port before setting out again on patrol. She departed Norfolk on 15 July and from then until 1 December, she made three anti-submarine cruises in the Western Atlantic. She sailed on 1 December for a training period in waters off Bermuda and Cuba that included refresher landings for pilots of her new squadron, gunnery practice, and anti-submarine warfare drills with Italian submarine R-9. Guadalcanal arrived Mayport, Fla., for carrier qualifications on 15 December and subsequently engaged in further training in Cuban water until 13 February 1945, when she arrived back in Norfolk. After another short training cruise to the Caribbean, she steamed into Mayport on 15 March for a tour of duty as carrier qualification ship, later moving to Pensacola, Florida for similar operations. After qualifying nearly 4,000 pilots,Guadalcanal returned to Norfolk, Va., and decommissioned there on 15 July 1946.

Guadalcanal entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Norfolk and was redesignated CVU-60 on 15 July 1955, while still in reserve. Her name was finally stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 27 May 1958 and she was sold for scrap to the Hugo Neu Corp. of New York on 30 April 1959. She was in the process of being towed to Japan for scrapping, when Capt. Gallery also made the very last landing and take off from the ship, using a helicopter, off Guantanamo, Cuba.

First Person Accounts [edit]

Howard Sherer, one of the many men who served on the carrier, chronicled his experiences on the USS Guadalcanal in his book My Navy Career. Captain Daniel Gallery wrote of the carrier's accomplishments in his book Clear the Decks.

 

 

Career (United States) Name: USS Guadalcanal Ordered: 1942 Builder: Kaiser Shipyards Laid down: 5 January 1943 Launched: 5 June 1943 Commissioned: 25 September 1943 Decommissioned: 15 July 1946 Struck: 27 May 1958 Motto: Can do Fate: Sold for scrap on 30 April 1959 General characteristics Class & type: Casablanca-class escort carrier Displacement: 7,800 tons Length: 512 ft (156 m) overall Beam: 65 ft (20 m) Draft: 22 ft 6 in (6.86 m) Propulsion:

• 2 × 5-cylinder reciprocating Skinner Unaflow engines
• 4 × 285 psi boilers
• 2 shafts
• 9,000 shp

Speed: 19 knots (35 km/h) Range: 10,240 nmi (18,960 km) @ 15 kn (28 km/h) Complement:

• 910-916 officers and men
• Embarked Squadron:50-56 officers and men
• Ship's Crew:860 officers and men.

Armament: 1 × 5 in/38 cal dual purpose gun, 16 × Bofors 40 mm guns (8x2), 20 ×Oerlikon 20 mm cannons (20x1) Aircraft carried: 27   Service record Part of: Task Group 21.12 (1943-44)

Task Group 22.3 (1944-45)

Atlantic Reserve Fleet (1946-58) Commanders: Daniel V. Gallery Operations: Battle of the Atlantic Victories: U-544, U-515, U-68, U-505 (1944) Awards: Presidential Unit Citation, 3 Battle stars

June 4

 

1673

Engagement between the Anglo-French fleet under Prince Rupert and the Dutch under De Ruyter.  Second Battle of Schooneveld. Anglo-French fleet of 86 ships, under Rupert of the Rhine, engaged Dutch fleet of 64 ships, under Michiel de Ruyter.

1800

HMS Thames (32), Cptn. Lukin, and HMS Cynthia (18) silenced the forts at Quiberon which were afterwards destroyed by a party of troops.

1805

Boats of HMS Loire (40), Cptn. Frederick Maitland, destroyed a battery and fort at Muros Bay, took the privateer Confiance and burnt privateer Belier .

1808

4 Danish gunboats, under Lt. Christian Wulff, defeats the British gun-brig HMS Tickler, Lieut. John W. Skinner (Killed in Action), off Taars.

1812

Boats of HMS Medusa (32), Cptn. Bouverie, cut out and destroyed Dorade (14) at Arcasson near Bourdeaux.

1824

The Danish Navy's first steamship, the paddle steamer Kiel, arrives at Copenhagen from England.

1849

The Danish corvette Valkyrien, Andreas Polder, and the paddle steamer Gejser, Lt. Cmdr Jørgen P. F. Wulff, of the North Sea Squadron engages 3 Schleswig-Holstein naval paddle steamers, under Rear Ad. Bromme off Heligoland.

Very nice - looks great in the photo's

Happy birthday - hope you have a nice day

Happy birthday - looking forward to your next post

Happy Birthday - safe trip