Would it be the original Ranger? I’m not sure, but wasn’t John Paul Jones buried three times?
Good guess .
This Captain also commanded more than one ship, we only want the last one.
Maybe not the one you are thinking about, but JPJ’s last command was the Russian flagship Vladimir in the Black Sea, as a Rear Admiral for Catherine the Great*.*
Rick
This was on tonight on BBC 1 , on the ONE show , in the UK.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/theoneshow/article/2007/10/ds_whitehaven.shtml
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But still not the one we want.
So, what do you want? JPJ’s ships, as far as I know, were
1776 Alfred
1776 Providence (as captain)
1776 Alfred (as captain)
1777 Ranger (as captain)
1779 Bonhomme Richard (as captain)
1782 Appointed to America, but sent to Europe to collect prize money when America was given to the French
1788 Vladimir (Russian - as Rear Admiral)
Rick
I think we’re on the wrong track. JPJ was only buried twice - immediately in Paris and then moved to Annapolis in 1913.
Rick
Never considered that, Rick - assumed it must be JPJ.
However, Oliver Hazard Perry, who fought the British on Lake Erie on board the Lawrence and the Niagara, died in Venezuela in 1819, on board the Nunsuch.
He was interred at Port of Spain, Trinidad. Seven years later, he was brought bak to the US and buried in the Old Common Burial Ground in Newport, RI. After a short while his body was moved a final time to Newport’s Island Cemetery.
(The other) Rick
One of these three ships is a clue.
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OK. There seems to be to many clues here for me not to suggest the answer is the CHESAPEAKE. Its captain was James Lawrence and I know he was buried in Halifax then moved to New York, but I am not sure about the third burial. The final clue would be that this was started by Shannon and that was the name of the British ship which defeated the Chesapeake.
“Don’t give up the ship”
Yankee Clipper
Yes, I considered Lawrence too, but also had him down as being buried only twice. But what is it with you guys over the pond? Was there a competiton going in those days -“which Captain can get reburied the most”? Or were the grave-diggers just trying to drum up business?
Rick
Yes, you’ve got it.
USS Chesapeake
Capt. Lawrence was buried first in Halifax on June 8th , then taken to Salem for burial on August 23rd, and finally laid to rest in Trinity Churchyard , New York, on September 16th 1813.
Your turn , Yankee Clipper.
Well… glad we laid that one to rest!!!
Rick
Thanks Shannonman.
Here is mine; What boat did the recommissioned Squalus become?
Yankee Clipper
Not to split hairs…Hopley Yeaton was appointed by President George Washington on March 21, 1791 making him the FIRST naval officer commissioned by the new Republic. Captain Yeaton took command of the Revenue cutter SCAMMEL the following month. Having no US navy in 1791, the armed SCAMMEL, (like modern day CG cutters) was considered a warship. In fact as there was no formal officer corps for the Revenue Service, Captain Yeaton was commissioned as a “naval” officer although the Continental Navy had been disbanded after the peace treaty with England was signed. Captain Yeaton served as an ship’s officer in the Continental Navy aboard the frigates RALEIGH and DEAN prior to his appointment. He passed away in 1812 and was buried in Lubec Maine. In 1974 his remains was exhumed and placed in vault at the Quoddy head lighthouse. In 1975 his remains were removed again and bought to New London CT. for internment at the Coast Guard Academy. The SCAMMEL’s skipper was also buried “three times”. Semper Paratus!
Would that be USS Sailfish, SS-192? I believe that the Squalus sunk off the New Hampshire coast not long after it was commissioned in 1939. The sub was raised, refurbished and re-commissioned in 1940 as the Sailfish.
Jayman1
You nailed it! Your turn.
Yankee Clipper
Thank you very much.
My question is “Who is Nrthaniel “Jumping Billy” Haraden and what information could he provide, had he been alive, about a recent thread in this forum?”
Nathaniel “Jumping Billy” Haraden (former Sailing Master of the Constitution) was the officer assigned at the Washington Navy Yard to assist Capain Hull in taking care of problems with her rigging and ballasting in November of 1811.
He would have been helpful in te discussion about Constitution’s rigging, but we don’t need him when we have Prof. Tilley.
Rick
Yes, Rick, you nailed it.
“Jumping Billy” was the Sailing Master of the Constitution under Captains Nicholson, Talbot and Preble and when Isaac Hull was a lieutenant. He was in charge of the vessel for a time when it was laid up in ordinary and he indeed was the Navy Yard officer assigned to the overhaul of the Constitution. I bet he was a real character in order to earn such a nickname.
And, yes he would have been helpful on the discussion of the rigging of the Constitution as it was probably he who rigged it. I can only second your comments on Dr. Tilley. You have said it so well!
Now Rick, What is your question?
What was the first destroyer to carry an aircraft, fixed wing or rotary wing? And when?