Wtc/USS New York
With a year to go before it even touches the water, the Navy's amphibious assault ship USS New York has already made history. It was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center.
USS New York is about 45 percent complete and should be ready for launch in mid-2007. Katrina disrupted construction when it pounded the Gulf Coast last summer, but the 684-foot vessel escaped serious damage, and workers were back at the yard near New Orleans two weeks after the storm.
It is the fifth in a new class of warship - designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft.
"It would be fitting if the first mission this ship would go on is to make sure that bin Laden is taken out, his terrorist organization is taken out," said Glenn Clement, a paint foreman. "He came in through the back door and knocked our towers down and (the New York) is coming right through the front door, and we want them to know that."
Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite, La., to cast the ship's bow section. When it was poured into the molds on Sept. 9, 2003, "those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence," recalled Navy Capt. Kevin Wensing, who was there. "It was a spiritual moment for everybody there."
Junior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that when the trade center steel first arrived, he touched it with his hand and the "hair on my neck stood up."
"It had a big meaning to it for all of us," he said. "They knocked us down. They can't keep us down. We're going to be back."
The ship's motto? - 'Never Forget'
Looking for more I googled and found these (partial results) And will go through them looking for more about this ship.
Historic Naval Ships Visitors Guide
Historic Naval Ships Listed By Location Historic Naval Ships Listed By Name ... Admiral's Barge, Romulus, New York. North Carolina ... www.hnsa.org/index.htm
Historic Naval Ships Visitors Guide - Ships by Type
Historic Naval Ships By Type. Aircraft Carriers Battleships Coast Guard Cruisers Destroyers ... USS Little Rock, Buffalo, New York, USA ... www.hnsa.org/class.htm[ More results from www.hnsa.org ]
USN Ships--USS Plattsburg (ID # 1645), 1918-1919
US NAVY SHIPS --. USS Plattsburg (ID # 1645), 1918-1919. Served as USS Harvard in 1898. Previously SS City of New York and SS New York (British-American ... www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/id1645.htm
USN Ships--USS Leviathan (ID # 1326)
SS Leviathan (American Passenger Ship, 1914). ... Photographed by the New York Navy Yard. US Naval Historical Center Photograph. ...
www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-l/id1326.htm
US Navy Ships Sunk or Damaged by Enemy Torpedo, Bombs, or Gunfire ...
US Navy Ships, lost during World War I, description of incidents, dates, ... 78 alongside Army dock at Fort Wadsworth, New York; total loss; no casualties. ... www.usmm.org/ww1navy.html
Open Directory - Society: History: By Topic: Maritime: Ships
... preservation and promotion of historic vessels in New York harbor. Includes ship ... Northwest Ships - Naval ships with Northwestern geographical names. ... www.dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Topic/Maritime/Ships/
SS AMERIKA, SS AMERICA, EDMUND B. ALEXANDER: Maritime Matters
... Cherbourg - New York. She was the largest ship in the world until 1906. ... On December 15, she was raised, then repaired at the New York Navy Yard. ... www.maritimematters.com/amerika.html
The Ships of New York Shipbuilding Corporation
The Ships of New York Shipbuilding Co. Last Updated: May 15, 2006 ... Reuben James was the first US Navy ship lost to hostile action in World War II, ... www.yorkship.home.comcast.net/Yorkships.htm
Links to Sites
Then ordered to New York we made our way through the Singapore Channel. ... Historic Naval Ships Association - - This website lists historic US Merchant ... www.americanvictory.org/links.asp
US Navy in WW1
NEW YORK class, BB.34 NEW YORK, BB.35 TEXAS, 2 ships - 27000t, 21 knots, ... SS.25 Sturgeon (E.2), 15th January 1916, United States, at Brooklyn Navy Yard, ...
www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyUS.htm
So far I have not found any more. But actually my brother knows who is in charge of this and I am going add that here at another time. I am sure from there we can find more. And his wife had pictures but she doesn't save things as I do! I don't throw anything out!
Added 6/28: And the links I found were not to do with the ship, as I had hoped some thing would be.
There is some thing a stirrin' about ships being a Navy child. I enjoyed my father's rare stories of the difference of the 2 he spent (?) 18 months on. Imagine being away on a tin can for so long? Mr Rogers (?) is a favorite of mine. Where he gets what he wants in the end. And it is the end. The one with the palm tree and the captain acts like Bliegh? Another is It was the strawberries with Bogart. And the Crimson Tide and Red October, Das Boot, Grey Lady Down. All touch the heart strings. I am sure I am forgetting some...
Brother wrote: Rear Admiral George Yount, US, (RET.) is the vice president of the company that is building her. Mom and Dad will recognize him as the Shipyard Commader that promoted me to Commander on the deck of the Missouri in 1995.
So you can google and find more on him. I have not gone through what I found. But he is there.
[ back to top ] added 6/12 as my side navagation does not work as it should, on the side.
posted by LadyIrene @ 5/26/2006 10:37:00 AM
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