The anchor chain was slipped and the ship was allowed to drift toward the beach with the wind and tide. The first torpedo apparently struck the starboard side abreast No. The system followed in restoring these motors and generators was to remove them to the topside where they were boiled for 24 hours with a complete change of water every eight hours, and were then baked in portable ammunition lockers, which had been converted into bake ovens, until clear readings were obtained with a megger. Sailing via Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, Sanborn arrived at Saipan on 11 February 1945 to participate in preinvasion rehearsals for the forthcoming assault on Iwo Jima. Carrying 232 casualties, Sanborn sailed for the Marianas on 28 February. of the 1950s modernization of the Navy's amphibious force with You may phone, fax, or email an order at any time, 24 hours a day. The ship heeled sharply to port, then rolled to starboard about 40 and finally settled on a list of about 200 to starboard. This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers. Bureau of Ships APA-100 through APA-249: To the best of our knowledge, the pictures provided in the Brush riggings were cleaned and studs and insulation renewed as necessary. In 1942, when the AP number series had already extended TASKER H. BLISS (AP22) transports. (h) C.O. (j) C.O. Laid down, 15 September 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (VC2-S-AP5) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MCV Hull-572), at Permanente Metals Corp, Yard No.2 Richmond, CA. Attack Transports numbered 19. After participating in a feint attack, Sanborn served as part of the floating reserve until 11 April, when she returned to Saipan. Flooding directly due to the hits was apparently limited to the immediate vicinity of the machinery spaces as one officer reported that about 20 minutes after the torpedoing no water could be seen in holds 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 or 8 as viewed. The cast and crew boarded in St. Thomas and filmed aboard the USS Randall (renamed the "Belinda" in this movie). Naval Academy, The Sullivan Brothers and the Assignment of Family Members, Historic Former U.S. Navy Bases and Stations, The African American Experience in the U.S. Navy, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. Navy, Contributions of Native Americans to the U.S. Navy, The World Cruise of the Great White Fleet, Navy Underwater Archaeology Return Program, Annual Navy History and Heritage Awards - Main, Research Permits for Sunken & Terrestrial Military Craft, Scanning, Copyright & Citation Information, Obtain Duplications of Records and Photos, [USS] Joseph Hewes APA22 War Damage Report No. Away All Boats (International Post-production script for the 1956 film) by Joseph Pevney (director); Kenneth M. Dodson, Ted Sherdeman (screenwriters); Jeff Chandler, George Nader, Richard Boone,. 1 fireroom, and the second probably hit in the engine room. (a) CTF 34 Material report 00243, 27 November 1942. Please take a moment to let us know so that we can correct any problems and make your visit as enjoyable and as informative as possible. The diesels for the two main generators were badly damaged. About one half hour after the hit, smoke started coming out through ventilators on the port side, followed by flames, and at 1830 the Captain was forced from the bridge by fire and smoke. to transports and given hull numbers in the AP series. Consider the effect had these tanks been full. hyperwar, APD -- High Speed Transports, and LPR -- Amphibious Transports, Small. Biblio is a registered trademark of Biblio, Inc. Help Support Independent Used Book Stores. Divers closed off the hole in bulkhead 80 on the No. of amphibious ships began to replace APAs throughout the 1960s. Attack transport is a United States Navy ship classification for a variant of ocean-going troopship adapted to transporting invasion forces ashore. All power, lighting and communication went out with the first hit and no auxiliary lighting was available, resulting in complete darkness. Steps shall be taken accordingly to insure that the report will be seen by those persons responsible for design, construction and repair of naval vessels, as well as for their operation, but by no others. Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1956. 3 hold was then pumped out and patches were concreted from the inside (see photos 3 and 4). Despite personal friction, the two have plenty with which to deal as the only experienced officers on board during the "shakedown". 32, Destroyer Report - Gunfire, Bomb and Kamikaze Damage, Destroyer Report - Torpedo and Mine Damage and Loss in Action, Submarine Report - Vol. USS Pierce (APA-50) was an Ormsby -class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II . The present policy of the Bureau in this matter for new conversions is to blank off the shaft alley at the engine room with bolted plates where there is other access to the shaft alley and where there is no machinery in the shaft alley. The ship returned to the United States under her own power for final repairs. The actual reclassification of these ships was not implemented ; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange, Transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) National Defense Reserve Fleet, Mobile, 19 February 1960, Permanent custody transferred to MARAD, 30 June 1960, Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960, Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 28 October 1971, to Union Minerals & Alloys Corp.(PD-X-918 dated 20 July 1971) one of a nine hull sale for $467,100.00, World War II era hulls still laid up in the Maritime Administration's On "D" deck in the vicinity of the boiler room uptakes a sheet of flame was observed following the explosion, and this was followed by dense white smoke in which the visibility was about three feet with a flashlight. (APA) was created and new numbers were assigned to fifty-eight APs (AP All pumps were started but water continued to rise and the ship continued to settle by the bow. Take a stab at guessing and be entered to win a $50 Biblio gift certificate! Sanborn was decommissioned and placed in reserve for the last time and berthed at Orange, Texas. 1943, with links to those ships with photos available in the Online If the attack transport you want does Mailing address: Royal Books / 32 West 25th Street / Baltimore, MD / 21218. The story of USS 'Belinda', Attack Transport PA22, launched late 1943 with regular-navy captain Hawks and ex-merchant captain MacDougall as boat commander. 25. The story of a U.S. Read the rules here. Almost laughable incompetence gradually improves, but the crew remains far from perfect when the ship sees action, landing troops on enemy beachheads. Destination, rates & speeds. Both were hit near the quarterpoint and both had more than two compartments flooded - thus bringing the main deck under the water and causing the ships to sink from progressive loss of buoyancy. In less than 30 seconds the fireroom flooded with oil and water to a level at least four feet above the floor plates, and within five minutes the stern of the ship had settled so that the deck beading aft was not more than three feet above the water. The gain in initial stability with extensive flooding, as in the case of the ELECTRA, is accompanied by a large decrease in maximum righting arm and range of stability. ELECTRA - port side looking forward and showing the small patches over fragment holes. Even though initially tight at the builder's yard, bulkheads must be checked by the ship's force at frequent intervals. (e) C.O. If you have questions about a book, feel free to call us anytime at 410-366-7329. Ten boats were lost, one by enemy fire and nine broached in the treacherous surf. TASKER H. BLISS - AP42/A16-3(110) - Report of Loss dated 24 November 1942. There have been other cases which pointed out the danger of extending flooding through shaft alley doors, (see Bureau of Ships War Damage Report No. 3. The explosion of the torpedo blew the hatch covers off No. Whip and vibration were apparent throughout the ship. ELECTRA - starboard side looking forward and showing the outside of the large patch over the torpedo hole. The story of USS 'Belinda', Attack Transport PA22, launched late 1943 with regular-navy captain Hawks and ex-merchant captai. In May 1953, Sanborn joined the Service Force, Atlantic Fleet, and transported construction battalions between Davisville, Rhode Island, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Casablanca, French Morocco. No. If you have questions about a book, feel free to call us anytime at 410-366-7329. The second explosion then seemed to occur in the engine room, about 30 feet aft of him, and this explosion put the fires out, bringing darkness and preventing any further inspection. The summation of these effects, i.e., 6 feet of center of buoyancy rise minus 10 feet of loss in metacentric radius (BM) plus the 5 feet gained in BM equals the one foot increase in initial stability after flooding was completed. 1 deep tank. safely considered extinct. It is doubtful if this would have helped BLISS with her extensive fires, but it is entirely possible that if the submergence of the deck could have been delayed on SCOTT, she might have remained afloat long enough for effective assistance to arrive. Recommissioned at San Diego on 6 January 1951, Sanborn conducted shakedown training off southern California before transiting the Panama Canal and joining the Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet, at Norfolk, Virginia. The ship immediately took a decided list to starboard and began to sink rapidly by the stern. The ship slid under and disappeared at 1848, approximately 1-3/4 hours after the torpedoing. The story of USS 'Belinda', Attack Transport PA22, launched late 1943 with regular-navy captain Hawks & ex-merchant captain MacDougall as boat commander. royalbooks.com Beginning work with the main engines all machinery was dismantled and overhauled completely. Parts from the No. At 0720 USS COLE took off all hands but the salvage party, and at 1015, with her engine room flooded, ELECTRA was taken under tow by CHEROKEE (AT66). Sanborn (APA-193) was laid down on 10 March 1944 under Maritime Commission contract (MCV hull 661); launched on 19 August 1944 by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Corp., Vancouver, Washington; sponsored by Mrs. Eric Johnson; acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 3 October 1944. Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1956. The first torpedo wrecked the galley and mess hall on "D" deck immediately above the firerooms. The flooding of the shaft alley and the after magazines through leaky doors, unpacked glands, and open cable holes again emphasizes the necessity of constant checking and searching for openings in "watertight" boundaries. 11. After embarking her landing craft at San Francisco, California, conducting shakedown training at San Pedro, California, and amphibious training at San Diego, California, Sanborn left for Pacific Ocean duty, arriving at Honolulu on 16 December 1944. Pelcula basada en la novela del soldado estadounidense Kenneth M. Dodson que sirvi en un buque "transporte de ataque" durante la IIGM; en la escritura de la novela cont con la ayuda del poeta Carl . Fire followed the explosions immediately and, as stated above, was uncontrollable; all machinery being out of action and the heavy list making it hard to move around. When it became apparent that nothing could be done to save the ship, the Commanding Officer ordered the ship abandoned. Immediately following the torpedo observed, a second torpedo struck the ship on the port side in No. Some terminology that may be used in this description includes: Sign up for our newsletter for a chance to win $50 in free books! We value your privacy and use cookies to remember your shopping preferences and to analyze our website traffic. Salvage operations were undertaken immediately and divers from CHEROKEE made temporary patches which permitted pumping of No. time her tow line parted for the second time. Near Fine. Despite personal friction, the two have plenty to deal with as the only experienced officers on board during the "shakedown." Almost laughable incompetence gradually improves, but the crew remains far from perfect when the ship sees action . During the early stages of flooding, the stability losses due to the free surface exceeded the initial stability so that a condition of negative stability resulted which listed the ship. were converted from new "Mariner" class freighters. As World War II went on, dozens of new construction merchant ships of the United States Maritime Commission's S4, C2, C3 and VC2 ("Victory") types were converted to attack transports, taking the list of APA numbers to 247, though fourteen ships (APAs 181-186 and APAs 240-247) were cancelled before completion. 34. The steering engine room reported "violent vertical whipping" and the forward 3" gun group reported "severe vibration". The story of USS 'Belinda', Attack Transport PA22, launched late 1943 with regular-navy captain Hawks and ex-merchant captain MacDougall as boat commander. 22. Her beach party also suffered from enemy action; all of the party's officers were lost. The refrigeration spaces probably flooded all the way across in a short time and nearly all of the final list thus is attributable to the flooding of wing tanks. The searchlight platform shook and guys to the stack were snapped. Preliminary Design Section Collapse of bulkheads under the weight of protection installed topside indicates that the strength of supports should have been more carefully considered when the protection was installed. 1 deep tank from above. to 50 h.p., one 150 k.w. As will be noted on plates III and IV, both of these ships have deep wing fuel oil tanks abreast the boiler rooms and fresh water tanks abreast the engine room. Actually, the net result was such that ELECTRA was in a rather dangerous condition where the slightest error in the handling of the ship might have resulted in her loss. Very little information is available regarding the stability characteristics of HEWES, RUTLEDGE, SCOTT and BLISS. (b) The free surface of the damage water removed about 10 feet of metacentric radius (BM) from the ship in the damaged area while the flared sides in the intact portion were such as to add about 5 feet of metacentric radius (BM). In 1942, when the AP number series had already extended beyond 100, it was decided that these amphibious warfare ships really constituted a separate category of warship from conventional transports. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. 6 cargo hold. She then slowly turned over to starboard, the stern coming up and the bow going down until the keel was practically level with the water. When the explosion occurred, all circuit breakers for pumps in operation were blown open and lubricating oil and fresh water pressures were lost, which caused the main engines to be stopped. (2) Transverse metacentric height was about 4.4 feet in the loaded condition with a calculated loss of about 2.8 feet for the flooding of the two worst compartments. Naval ship and its crew in the Pacific, from 1943 to 1945. The story of USS 'Belinda', Attack Transport PA22, launched late 1943 with regular-navy captain Hawks and ex-merchant captain MacDougall as boat commander. USS Sanborn (APA-193) was a Haskell -class attack transport acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II for the task of transporting troops to and from combat areas. The ship continued to burn and is reported to have sunk at 0230, 13 November, 1942. Left Column -- 31. All engines were thoroughly flushed out by circulating lubricating oil for 24 hours. 6 hold, resulting in complete darkness. Between these visits, Sanborn participated in landing exercises to maintain both the ship's company and embarked U.S. Marines in combat readiness. 29, USS San Francisco CA38 War Damage Report No. Sanborn earned two battle stars for her service at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. These wing tanks have a capacity of about 315 tons each for the fuel oil tanks and 136 tons each for the fresh water tanks. Post-production International Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1956 film. [citation needed], The 1956 movie Away All Boats presents operations on an attack transport. HUGH L. SCOTT (AP43) Mailing address: Royal Books / 32 West 25th Street / Baltimore, MD / 21218. 2 hold filling No. 21. Exchanging her construction battalion passengers for Army troops and Marines, she joined the Amphibious Force, Pacific Fleet, under Vice Adm. Richmond K. Turner. APA-1 through APA-99: Right Column -- The story of USS 'Belinda', Attack Transport PA22, launched late 1943 with regular-navy captain Hawks and ex-merchant captain MacDougall as boat commander. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. The story of USS 'Belinda', Attack Transport PA22, launched late 1943 with regular-navy captain Hawks and ex-merchant captain MacDougall as boat commander. not have an active link on this page, contact the Photographic (g) C.O. 32, Henrico County Historical Society USS HENRICO Attack Transport 45 1943-1968 Ship's History, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attack_transport&oldid=1115697750, This page was last edited on 12 October 2022, at 19:05. It was reported that wooden bulkheads throughout the ship collapsed (reference (c)). World War II service edit] by a torpedo on the starboard side in way of No. She next headed for San Francisco to embark troops of the U.S. 86th Infantry Division, transporting them to Batangas, Luzon, via Eniwetok and Ulithi. Despite personal friction, the two have plenty to deal with as the only experienced officers on board during the "shakedown." 2 hold and filled No. Multilith duplication. But, it would most probably have been a great deal less than that actually observed. It appears that this was actually installed before the ship was torpedoed. 56, USS Houston CL81 War Damage Report No. No machinery or electrical derangements occurred in the plant throughout the return voyage, which speaks well for the promptness and thoroughness of the repair measures undertaken by the ship's force. Near Fine. 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