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USS Zumwalt Hunting (for Harry)
On 4/21/2014 12:00 PM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 4/21/14, 11:47 AM, wrote: On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:03:10 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote: Do you remember the USS Coates, the DE that "guarded" New Haven Harbor during the 1960s? I remember the USS Drum that kept the godless communists away from the Washington Navy Yard (called the gun factory at the time) After that sailed away the mission was left to the USCGR unit next to the Wilson Bridge ;-) I was a high schooler in New Haven when the Coates was assigned there as, if memory serves, a training vessel. We encountered it from time to time in the really small boats we used to play, fish, waterski, et cetera, on Long Island Sound. Mostly, though, the Coates was docked. Just looked it up...it was used as a target vessel and sunk in the early 1970s.  I don't remember the Coates in New Haven, but I probably wasn't paying much attention to Navy ships then. I looked it up also. It was one of the many DEs built during WWII and of a class just prior to the ones I was on. They only made 13 of the class I was on, then re-designated them as Frigates. Reading the history of Navy ships has always been of interest to me. Some had very colorful histories. One of the sister ships of the Coates, the USS Eugene E. Elmore (DE-686) performed some heroic actions during WWII, hunting and sinking a German sub that attacked a task force disabling four ships. The Elmore saved many sailors and then took one of the damaged ships under tow and delivered it to Casablanca. Little ships but they had big hearts. |
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