Ships of the US Navy stationed in Cork, Ireland, 1917 to 1919.
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USS Oklahoma (BB-37) Nevada Class,(oil fired) USS Nevada (BB-36) Nevada Class,(oil fired) USS Utah (BB-31) Florida Class, (coal fired). |
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USS Allen (DD-66) Sampson Class USS Aylwin (DD-47) Cassin Class USS Ammen (DD-35) Monaghan Class USS Balch (DD-50) Cassin Class USS Beale (DD-40) Monaghan Class USS Benham (DD-49) Cassin Class USS Burrows (DD-29) Paulding Class USS Caldwell (DD-69) Caldwell Class USS Cassin (DD-43) Cassin Class USS Conyngham (DD-58) Tucker Class USS Cummings (DD-44)Cassin Class USS Cushing (DD-55) O'Brien Class USS Davis (DD-65) Sampson Class USS Downes (DD-45) Cassin Class USS Drayton (DD-23) Paulding Class USS Duncan (DD-46) Cassin Class USS Ericsson (DD-56) O'Brien Class USS Fanning (DD-37) Monaghan Class USS Jacob Jones (DD-61) Tucker Class USS Jarvis (DD-38) Monaghan Class USS Jenkins (DD-42) Monaghan Class USS Kimberley (DD-80) Wickes Class USS McCall (DD-28) Paulding Class USS Mc Dougal (DD-54) O'Brien Class USS Manley (DD-74) Caldwell Class USS Nicholson (DD-52) O'Brien Class USS O'Brien (DD-51) O'Brien Class USS Parker (DD-48) Cassin Class USS Patterson (DD-36) Roe Class USS Paulding (DD-22) Paulding Class USS Perkins (DD-26) Paulding Class USS Porter (DD-59) Tucker Class USS Rowan (DD-64) Sampson Class USS Sampson (DD-63) Sampson Class USS Shaw (DD-68) Sampson Class USS Sterett (DD-27) Paulding Class USS Stevens (DD-86) Wickes Class USS Stockton (DD-73) Caldwell Class USS Terry (DD-25) Paulding Class USS Trippe (DD-33) Paulding Class USS Tucker (DD-57) Tucker Class USS Wadsworth (DD-60) Tucker Class USS Wainwright (DD-62) Tucker Class USS Walke (DD-34) Monaghan Class USS Warrington (DD-30) Paulding Class USS Wilkes (DD-67) Sampson Class USS Winslow (DD-53) O'Brien Class |
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L-1 aka AL-1 (SS-40) L-2 aka AL-2 (SS-41) L-3 aka AL-3 (SS-42) L-4 aka AL-4 (SS-43) L-9 aka AL-9 (SS-49) L-10 aka AL-10 (SS-50) L-11 aka AL-11 (SS-51) |
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USSC 1 USSC 44 USSC 45 USSC 46 USSC 47 USSC 48 USSC 91 USSC 110 USSC 164 USSC 178 USSC 181 USSC 182 USSC 206 USSC 207 USSC 208 USSC 220 USSC 221 USSC 222 USSC 254 USSC 271 USSC 272 USSC 323 USSC 325 USSC 329 USSC 342 USSC 343 USSC 344 USSC 345 USSC 346 USSC 356 |
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USS Melville (AD-2) Flagship USS Dixie (AD-1) USS Vestal (AR-4) USS Bushnell (AS-1) |
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Genesee (AT-55) Ontario (AT-13) Sonoma (AT-12) |
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USS Santee Former Arvonian , only US 'Q-Ship' of WW1 |
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SOURCES
There have been a number of publications detailing the history of Queenstown (Cobh) during World War One. The standard reference works are those those listed below
Danger Zone. The story of the Queenstown Command.
By E.Keeble Chatterton
Little, Brown and Co, Boston 1934
(copy available in Cork City Library – local history section top floor)
The Victory at Sea. By Rear-Admiral William Sowden Sims, Doubleday, Page and Company, New York, 1921.
Simsadus London, The American Navy in Europe.
By John Langdon Leighton.
Henry Holt & Co, New York, 1921.
Available to download here
Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy
For the Fiscal Year, 1918
Available to download here
Officers and Enlisted Men of the US Navy who died during WW1
Available to download here
Bayley’s Navy,
by Vice Admiral Walter.S.Delany (Rtd)
Available to download here
American Participation in the Great War,
by Captain Dudley W.Knox.
Available to download here
Naval Aviation in WW1,
by Adrian O. Van Wyen.
Available to download here
For Operational Records Various files from the Public Records Office,of the United Kingdom, Kew are invaluable, especially records of ADM137, which were files bound for the official history of WW1 Naval Operations. None of these records are digitised yet, and can only be accessed by visiting the British Public Records Office, Kew, near London.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
For photographs of the Queenstown Command, the following websites have many photographs available to download free of charge. Most of the aforementioned publications also have photographic illustrations.
US Naval History and Heritage Command website
www.history.navy.mil
United States National Archives Website
www.archives.gov/
The British Imperial War Museum
www.iwm.org.uk/research
This site contains many photographs of US and British Naval operations in Ireland. Importantly, it also has a number of copies of unique newsreel footage. These can be played on the site.